Re: User Space size

[Tony Carolla <carolla@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Bob!  I bungled the DS pointer for parameter three.  One of
these days I will install QSYSINC!!!


On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:02:53 -0500, Bob Cozzi <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the RPG xTools, I call the Change user space attribute immediately after
> creating the user space itself; thus making autoextend.
> 
> If you don't have the xTools, here's the way it works:
> 
>      D UserSpaceAttr   DS
>      D  nRecdCount                   10I 0 Inz(1)
>      D  nAttrKey                     10I 0 Inz(RTK_USKEY_EXT)
>      D  nAttrLen                     10I 0 Inz(%Size(bExtend))
>      D  bExtend                       1A   Inz('1')
>      D RtnLib          S             10A
> 
>      ***  Create your user space in QTEMP, then call the QUSCUSAT
>      C                   CallP     QusChgUsrSpaceAttr(rtnLib :
>      C                                  'MYSPACE   QTEMP' :
>      C                                  UserSpaceAttr : ApiErrorDS)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Tony Carolla
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 3:06 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: User Space size
> 
> I am having a problem with my recent use of a user space.
> 
> My module creates a user space in QTEMP, and gets a pointer to it
> using the QUSCRTUS and QUSPTRUS, respectively.
> 
> I have an array defined, with 32000 elements, based on the pointer
> that points to the user space.
> 
> I increment the array counter, and populate the array, and make use of
> the data later in the program by doing %lookups, etc, all the while
> tracking the number of elements in the array, to avoid accessing an
> element I have not placed any data into.
> 
> It works beautifully, until I reach the extent of the user space.
> POOF.  Is there a way to make a user space auto-extend?  I thought
> they did that by themselves, but apparently not.  If I allocate a
> ridiculous amount of storage when creating the user space, will it
> dynamically grab the space, or grab it all at once?
> 
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