Re: Variable Length Fields In V3R7 ILE RPG

Gary wrote:
>For those intetested we found when compiling ILE RPG to V3R7M0,
>CVTOPT(*VARCHAR) isn't H-Spec supported.  It has to be supplied on the
>create command's "Type conversion option" parameter.
>
>Also, you have to immitate a variable length field by defining the first
two
>bytes of a string as an integer with length 5 an zero decimal positions.
>Here's an example.  VarLenFld is a variable length defined field in a
>physical file.
>...

Wouldn't it be easier to upgrade to a more recent release?
Easier support for varying length fields was added in V4R2.
In V3R7, you'd be writing code that will be quickly
obsolete anyways!  Also, putting too much of a dependency
on CVTOPT(*VARCHAR) will only make using real character
varying fields more difficult.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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