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On Friday 08 October 2004 18:02, York, Albert wrote:
> That's what I ended up doing.
>
> However, when I reprint the report I need to know the actual length. I
> ended up using a small RPGLE program which rips through the file and
> determines the  longest record. Not fancy but it works.

I realise it's done now but it just occurred to me that if you used 3000 byte 
VARLEN fields the record length would be irrelevant and, possibly, a logical 
file keyed on the 2 byte length field might tell you the longest record with 
one READ...

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