RE: RPG and SQL Compilers

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:22:19 -0600
>From: "Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@richardjackson.net>
>
>Ahhh, Jon.  When the problem is encountered with RPG3, it is caused by the
>number of ODT entries - the number of database, screen, etc fields in the
>program.  Those RPG3 JDE programs that blow the compiler have more fields
>than will fit into the ODT - seems to me like the limit is 32k fields.
But
>this is a creature of the program template and I think that there are two
>sizes.  Are you saying that switching from IRP to W-code avoids the
problem
>or that using a program template that supports more than 32k fields avoids
>the problem?  I think that RPG4 uses the larger template version.

Richard, using w-code brings a whole new set of limits (usually much
harder to reach).  w-code is a completely different architecture from
MI.  If you do a DSPMOD, you can see some of the limits.  I imagine
the "Dictionary mapping table" is sort of equivalent to the ODT,

Barbara Morris


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