HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 12/15/2003
07:56:54 AM:

Steve,

From the MPEX help on "FILE I/O FUNCTIONS":

....

   * Because string variables can be at most 255 characters long, you'll
have
     trouble processing files with records longer than 255 characters.
....

I ran against the same limit when I wrote an MPEX command file for loading
data from a 'flat' file into an IMAGE dataset.

Regards
Paul Christidis


> Hi,
>
> I'm attempting to create separate order files from one consolidated
orders
> file. To do this, I'm reading the file with the WHILE commands, and then
> using the SETVAR and ECHO commands to copy the files to a temporary file,
> which will then be saved in the POSIX directory.
>
> My source file has a file length of 468 characters. At some point within
my
> process, there seems to be a limit of 256 characters. Could someone
direct
> me to where this is, and how to cure it? Below is the JCL
>
> Thanks and Regards and Seasons Greetings to all.
>
> Steve
>
>
> !mpex
>  SETVAR BIO ' '
>  SETVAR FNUM VEFOPEN('xxxxxxxx.BACKUP.xxxxxxxx,OLD')
>  WHILE VEFREADV('BIO',FNUM)
>  IF STR(BIO,1,13)='1po-abcd-file01'
>  SETVAR B2 STR(BIO,1,80)
>  SETVAR B2A STR(BIO,81,80)
>  SETVAR B2B STR(BIO,161,80)
>  SETVAR B2C STR(BIO,241,80)
>  SETVAR B2D STR(BIO,321,80)
>  SETVAR B2E STR(BIO,401,68)
>  setvar B3 STR(BIO,233,10)
>  ECHO !B2
>  ECHO !B2A
>  ECHO !B2B
>  ECHO !B2C
>  ECHO !B2D
>  ECHO !B2E
>
>
>
>
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