preemptively prevent truncation

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Eric Chan <emchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The error message comes up if one of the selected lines would exceed
the record length after commenting. ?The block commenting shifts your
line over to the right by one character (two in free), so the idea of
the error is to preemptively prevent truncation.

Eric Chan
Rational Developer for Power
IBM Toronto Software Lab

A simple solution we use in our shop is to create the source physical files
with a longer record length than the IBM default. We use a record length of
132 (SRCDTA = 120), the maximum that SEU can easily handle with all data
viewable on a single screen.

In V6R1 IBM added the MARGINS parameter to the RUNSQLSTM, allowing you to
use SRCDTA up to a maximum length of 32754. When we create complex stored
procedures and UDFs we will always maintain them in RDP so we throw away the
SEU limitations. This allows us to write code that is much easier to read
and maintain.

Jon Everton
Vertex Business Solutions