RE: Maximum number of Parameters passed to a RPG program

As long as each DS isn't more than 65535 bytes long. That gives you a
theoretical maximum length of 16,711,425 bytes if you pass 255 data
structures, each 65535 bytes long. You could have as many "fields" as you
can squeeze in there. But you also have the storage allocation limit of
16,776,704 bytes and the symbolic name limit of 4096 to deal with, so the
practical limit is probably much less.

Francis Lapeyre
IS Dept. Programmer/Analyst
Stewart Enterprises, Inc.
E-mail: flapeyre@xxxxxxxx 


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Friday, August 4, 2006 1:47 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Maximum number of Parameters passed to a RPG program

I suppose the answer could be "it depends"?

By defining a data structure with all of the fields you could then have 
one parm but have passed a very large number of values?


Lapeyre, Francis wrote:

In ILE RPG for V5R3, it's 255. Procedures can have up to 399, though.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/topic/books_web/c09250

85769.htm#HDRRPGREST



Francis Lapeyre
IS Dept. Programmer/Analyst
Stewart Enterprises, Inc.
E-mail: flapeyre@xxxxxxxx 

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Marvin Radding
Sent: Friday, August 4, 2006 1:22 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Maximum number of Parameters passed to a RPG program

Just had one of our Business Analyst ask this question: What are the

maximum

number of parms you can pass to an RPG program?

Why a non-programmer wants to know this, I can only guess.  

Can anyone point me to the page in the manual that gives this limitation?

Marvin