RE: Determining spool file record length

["York, Albert" <albert.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

An interesting idea but the CPYSPLF command doesn't seem to work with
variable length fields.

Albert York                          



        -----Original Message-----
        From:   midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[SMTP:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brendan Bispham
        Sent:   Friday, October 08, 2004 10:50 AM
        To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
        Subject:        Re: Determining spool file record length

        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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