Re: record size limit

Oh.  Okay.  Can't you then break up one record into more fields?  I know you
are sending a flat file, but you can still inside your RPG program declare
different lengths for the record.

What is your record length for the file?

Regards,

Jim Langston

"Smith, Mike" wrote:
> 
> no, The problem is not the number of records in the file, its the size of 1
> single record.  The max is like 32767 characters for 1 record.  thats where
> my problem is.  I'm dropping data because i fill up the record.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [mailto:jimlangston@conexfreight.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:40 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: record size limit
> 
> You can even change the flat file after it was created, and specify
> *NOMAX.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> Peter_Vidal@pall.com wrote:
> >
> > Create the flat file as:
> >
> > CRTPF FILE(FLATFILE) SIZE(*NOMAX)
> >
> > Peter Vidal
> >
> >
> >                     "Smith, Mike"
> >                     <Smith-Mike@Crest.ar        To:
> RPG400-L@midrange.com
> >                     amark.com>                  cc:
> >                     Sent by:                    Subject:     record size
> limit
> >                     owner-rpg400-l@midra
> >                     nge.com
> >
> >
> >                     03/07/01 02:00 PM
> >                     Please respond to
> >                     RPG400-L
> >
> >
> >
> > I am writing a conversion program that writes to a flat file.  The problem
> > i'm having is that i have a few records that are blowing past the
> > 32thousand+ record size limit.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how i
> > can get around this.
> > This is a file that is being FTP'd to an Unix machine.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike
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