RE: RPGLE Max Field length issue.....

Field length max is 64k today. Someday (soon?) it will be 16MB or so, but today
it is 64k.

Today what you need to do is allocate your 2+ meg of memory using %ALLOC().
The have a based variable on that point, for example:

D ptr       S            *
D bigVar    S         65535A   Based(ptr)

  /free
      Ptr = %alloc(2000000);
  /end-free

Now when you use BIGVAR you can read up to 2 meg of data into it, even though it
things is 64k.

-Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:50 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: RPGLE Max Field length issue.....

Are you saying that each line of the XML string can be up to 2mb long?  
That's some string!  Or that the total size of the XML document (all 
lines combined) is 2mb? 


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Shailesh_Udashi wrote:

Hi all, 

We are facing an issue of field size AS400. We are expected to process
an incoming message of 2mb size (XML string) on AS400. My understanding
is that the max field length can be 32767. Then how do we receive a
value longer than this in RPG?

Appreciate your help with this issue. 

Regards, 
S. S. Udashi




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