RE: 16 Mb limit - possibly expanded in future?

Plus what about using teraspace RPGLE routines?

Sharon Wintermute


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wintermute, Sharon
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:26 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: RE: 16 Mb limit - possibly expanded in future?

When you need over 16mb memory what about using a user space? That works well.


Sharon Wintermute

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:09 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: 16 Mb limit - possibly expanded in future?

What kinds of RPG applications need more than 16mb memory? As far as I can recall, I've never run up against that limit. So it just makes me curious. What about using stream files instead of addressable memory?

-Nathan



----- Original Message ----
From: Åke Olsson <ake.olsson@xxxxxx>
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 1:13:20 AM
Subject: 16 Mb limit - possibly expanded in future?

With the new version of Mq the maximum message size is 100 mb.



However - even with the highly appreciated extension of maximum variable size in RPG - the maximum size in RPGLE is 16mb. Even the %ALLOC statement signals 16 meg as the maximum size it can allocate to a pointer.



Is it likely that IBM will extend the options beyond the 16mb limit in a coming release?



Is there any work-around available?





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