In article <[log in to unmask]>,
John Krussel <[log in to unmask]> writes
>I don't know what the application is, but may god help anyone who has to try
>to find anything on a screen with over 128 fields! Maybe it should be broken
>up some.
>
>John Krussel
>Nordstrom

John, I've reviewed the requirement, and it's sensible. We're
maintaining a 100-item, 3-element table in Editor, and we want to
tighten up on the procedures by moving it into COBOL.

A VPLUS screen for the whole thing makes sense, VPLUS permitting.

It's not 128 different fields makes up a record - that would be tough to
handle.

Push comes to shove, we can do it another way.

But hey, I asked the question 'Do we have to?'

Everybody I'm working with thinks the limit has changed since B.06.07
(the VPLUS we are using), except me, but nobody can prove anything
either way.

I'm bare-assed because I don't have docs beyond MPE/iX 5.0 (except that
negatively, nothing in later Communicators indicates that the limit has
been increased).

Help me out here, guys! I've puffed HP3000-L as the 'never-fails'
resource and (sings, in plaintive country twang) 'Tonight, the newsgroup
let me down'.

Actually, it was 'bottle' in the original. Think I'll hit that next. :-)
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