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Yeah, I agree..... Please retract my suggestion. So far, adding a new keyword
seems to be the safest approach, since it leaves the choice up to the
developer...
Eric
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 1:50 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Max length of a VARYING field
DeLong, Eric wrote:
Perhaps if this occurs, IBM will control this with a new system
value. Then you could RTVSYSVAL to initialize your VarLenOffset.
Yikes, Eric... I don't think you thought this through at all :)
If you did this, some software vendors would require that the
QRPGVARSIZE sysval is set to 4, because they'd need support for longer
strings. Other vendors would require it to be set to 2 because they
wrote their software before the sysval was introduced. There'd be so
much ompatibility breakage across packages, it would be complete chaos.
You don't want to make this decision on a system-wide basis. You want
to make it on a per-field basis, or failing that, on a per-program basis.
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