FW: Quest for you/midrange-l

Does anyone have an answer for Henrik?  I've long known there were limitations
on this kind of thing, but I've never analyzed it the way he has, nor have I
ever found documentation on it.  Thanks!

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC

-----Original Message-----
From: Krebs, Henrik H DANSK-IMA/D23
[mailto:Henrik.H.Krebs@OPE.shell.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 7:42 AM
To: 'leslier@datrek.com'; 'breger@levitz.com'; Shaw, David
Subject: Quest for you/midrange-l


Hi friends

Back again (from a long trip to Thailand), but my subscription to Midrange
is not quite 'up and running'. Could I pls ask one of you to post the
following question (Nice to get a quick answer) and forward interesting
replies to henrik.h.krebs@ope.shell.com ?

Tia

Henrik krebs
http://hkrebs.dk/

"I have an RPG that should read or update 'any file', so the file is
defined:

'FUPDAT   UF  F    9999            DISK'

It works fine with an outher CLprogram:
OVRDBF UPDAT THISLIB/THISFILE SHARE(*YES)
CALL RPGPGM

But as soon as I change the CL-program to
OPNQRYF THISLIB/THISFILE ...
OVRDBF UPDAT THISLIB/THISFILE SHARE(*YES)
CALL RPGPGM

then the RPGPGM gives MCH0601 (Space offset X'00001460' is outside current
limit for object &1) when moving from buffer into the 9999 bytes inputfield
(DS).

The actual file used for testing has a record length of 141 bytes. It worked
fine when defining the file as 150 bytes, so I did a 'binary
change-record-length-recompile-retest' to find, that it worked for a record
length of 3248 bytes but not 3249 bytes.

What happends? Where is this limit documented?"


Regards

Henrik Krebs IMA/D23

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Office fax: +45 3337 2888
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Office e-mail: Henrik.H.Krebs@ope.shell.com
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http://hkrebs.dk/
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