Re: Variable Length Fields In V3R7 ILE RPG

["Gary Monnier" <GaryMon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're right.  It would be easier on us if the customer would upgrade the OS
version.  Unfortuately, they don't want to upgrade so we deal with the
situation the best we can.

By the way, putting the V3R7 manuals back on the web would be very helpful.

----- Original Message -----
From: <boldt@ca.ibm.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 12:10 PM
Subject: 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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