Re: Size of source physical files

[Gary Guthrie <garyguthrie@xxxxxxxx>]

Individual products may, and some do, impose their own source file
record length restrictions. For example, QMQry. A record length longer
than 91 (I haven't checked beyond V4R4) will cause any data beyond that
limit to be truncated.

Gary Guthrie
NEWS/400 Senior Technical Editor


Scott Klement wrote:
> 
> ILE does not require the length 112.   That's a requirement of RPG IV,
> not ILE.
> 
> In V3R2, the record length for a QSRVSRC member could not exceed 92, or
> the CRTSRVPGM command would fail.   However, I do not seem to have that
> problem on V4R5.
> 
> Other than that one instance, record lengths of 112 have always worked
> for me :)
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Jade Richtsmeier wrote:
> >
> > Is there any reason why you can't define all source physical files to 112,
> > like ILE requires?  At my current employer, they have the ILE source files
> > defined at 112, but DDS & CMD defined as 92.  They are under the impression
> > that PF, LF, DSPF, CLLE, CMD, etc. source files can't be defined as 112.  At
> > a previous employer we had everything in once source file, and I don't
> > recall any problems or issues with it.  Am I missing something?
> >
> 
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