RE: Too big !

I remember when MAC PAC did this.  I was debugging a program (the old
fashioned way before ISDB).  Added a breakpoint right before and then right
after an EXSR.  Sure enough the variable was wrong after the EXSR.  Went to
the program and tried to find the BEGSR and couldn't.  Thought I was going
crazy, so rechecked, yep I had the right name.  Found out it was a /COPY
that brought the EXSR in because the program was over 32,760 lines!!!!  One
BIG MONOLITHIC Order Entry program!!!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: jcbradley@voyager.net [mailto:jcbradley@voyager.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 9:05 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Too big !


>I have problem with PUR500D3 (part of BPCS) it is too BIG (RPG error) !
>
>IS a simple way to fix this problem (cut to part ???) ?
>
>Please help me !!!
>
>Dariusz Blazkow

I'm not sure if there is a "simple" way.

1. SEU used to have, and for all I know, still has a limit of about 32,760
lines 
   of source code.  If your source needs more lines than this, you'll have
to 
   use the /COPY operand to bring extra source members in at compile time.

2. If the OPM (Original Program Model) RPG program is too big to compile,
this 
   can be caused by there being more than 32,760 items (sorry, I don't have 
   an AS/400 conneciton while writing this, so the terminology isn't
precise) 
   like fields, tags, subroutine names and variables defined in the program.

   The way I've seen this problem worked around is to convert to RPG ILE and
compile.
   You would copy your various pieces of source into one big member for the
compile.

   Arthur Andersen's MAC-PAC manufacturing software resorted to this latter
approach 
   a couple of years ago when about four of their programs grew too large to
be 
   compiled using OPM RPG.

I hope this was of help.

I'm sure the people on this list will contribute a lot of ideas to help you.

Good luck!

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