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  • Subject: Re: Subfield lenght cannot exceed 256 bytes
  • From: "Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 01:44:07 -0700

Hi Sanjiv,

Without knowing more details, I'd say give the data structure a name, and
pass it as the parm rather than attempting to pass a subfield. I'm assuming
that you wish to pass the entire record from the physical file. If that's
not the case, I'd need some more details.

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Sanjiv Hati <hattys@yahoo.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 2:21 PM
Subject: Subfield lenght cannot exceed 256 bytes


> Hi all
>
> I am using a DS structure in RPG/400 to store a record
> from a physical file . The length of the record is
> more than 256 bytes. But when I declare the length of
> the subfield of the data structure as 9999 and then
> compile my program it give compilation error i.e.
> subfield length can't exceed 256. The basic purpose is
> to pass this subfield as parameter to another pgm.
>
> I want to pass charater data as parameter with length
> 9999 to another pgm (or more than 9999) specifically
> in RPG/400.
>
> Can anyone provide with a solution.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Sanjiv Kumar Hati
> BFL software
> Bangalore
> India.
>
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