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

Kind of.
The advantage of limiting it to a 16MB user space is the user space can be
created at the anticipated 2 MB size, and if the auto-extend attribute is turned
it, it'll automatically extend/grow on those occasions when more than 2MB is
needed.

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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chris Pando
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:17 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: RPGLE Max Field length issue.....

On 2/6/07, Richter,Steve <Steve.Richter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

you can alloc upto 16meg of contiguous space in RPG and use a pointer based

character field to step thru the 2mb xml string. For scanning the string you can
use a combination of the C runtime scan functions and your own ile procedures.

-Steve

If 16M isn't enough, you can use the memory management routines in the
C run-time library to allocate gigabytes of contiguous storage in the heap;
the pointer based stuff works exactly the same for both User Spaces and
heap storage.

Chris
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