Re: CGIDEV Limit?

[Mel Rothman <mel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The UpdHtmlVar prototype defines the value parameter as 1000 characters with these 
keywords: const varying options(*varsize).

It's possible that the 1024 character variable when trimmed still exceeded 1000 characters.

If you want to output variables greater than 1000 characters, use the UpdHtmlVar2 
subprocedure.

The error you are receiving most likely has nothing to do with overflowing the dynamic 
buffer.  Starting with CGIDEV2 Version 2004-09-02 17:40:18, CGIDEV2's HTML output buffer 
can be up to about 2 gigabytes.

If the version you are using is older than this, you might want to switch to the latest 
version ( see http://www.easy400.net/easy400p/maindown.html#d02 ).


Mel Rothman
CGIDEV2 Author




hrabar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> We are using CGIDEV2 on our iSeries.  One of our programmers has a program
> the was writing MANY records out to an HTML.
>
> He started to get an error that a space offset is outside current limit, or
> that RPG procedure wrtsection in program CGIBIN/CGISRVPGM2 tried to
> allocate storage with a length that was not a value between 1 and 16776704.
>
> While researching this, we noticed that he was writing out a link in each
> record using a variable with a length of 1024. This was setup to allow the
> max characters.
>
>       WkLoc   1024 A
>       updHTMLvar('link':WkLoc)
>
> He tried to cut down on the number of characters by changing the code to
> the following:
>       updHTMLvar('link':%trim(WkLoc))
>
> We were surprised that this did not solve the problem.
>
> We next had him change the code to use a smaller work variable based on the
> maximum length link he was sending:
>
>       WkA300  300 A
>       updHTMLvar('link':WkA300)
>
> This code ran with no error.
>
> Shouldn't %trim have cut down on the number of characters being sent to the
> HTML section?
> Or is there something in the CGI procedures that is causing the full size
> of the variable to be used.
>
>
>
> Leonard Hrabar
> Senior Developer
>
> Holy Name Hospital
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>
> hrabar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx