Re: IBM File QAYIVDTA

If you do a DSPFFD of QAYIVDTA you will notice that the 9th field is a 
BLOB able to contain very large amounts of data (on my system 2147483647 
bytes).  The record length, 1616, is the fixed record/buffer size where 
the 9th field has 34 bytes allocated.  The member size includes any 
allocations that might have been made for data in the BLOB field.

Bruce Vining
 



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IBM File QAYIVDTA






I have an IBM file on my system named QAYIVDTA in QMGTC showing this
data on DSPFD. Notice the size being reported for this object with only
12 record and a record size of 1616. Just curious if anyone else has
this file on their system and what the size is or know how this could
be.
 
 Record Format List 
                        Record  Format Level 
  Format       Fields   Length  Identifier 
  QAYIVDTA          9     1616  4012EA0898B75 
    Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 
  Total number of formats  . . . . . . . . . . :           1 
  Total number of fields . . . . . . . . . . . :           9 
  Total record length  . . . . . . . . . . . . :        1616 
 
Member List 
 
                             Source Creation    Last Change 
 
 Member           Size        Type  Date       Date     Time 
Records
 QAYIVDTA         1359065088        06/10/05 10/20/06 12:01:08 
12
   Text: 
 
 Total number of members  . . . . . . . . . :                 1 
 
 Total number of members not available  . . :                 0 
 
 Total records  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :                12 
 
 Total deleted records  . . . . . . . . . . :                 7 
 
 Total of member sizes  . . . . . . . . . . :        1359065088