Comments on: Subfile Limit http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/subfile-limit/ Sun, 26 May 2013 01:40:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: modiyooch http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/subfile-limit/#comment-88127 modiyooch Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:53:10 +0000 #comment-88127 quick and dirty fix to existing program to avoid a systems msg is to check the index value while building subfile and at 9995 display what you have with an informational type message for user to narrow the selection.

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/subfile-limit/#comment-87770 tomliotta Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:45:57 +0000 #comment-87770 On the subfile I have SFLSIZ(0240)

The SFLSIZ() attribute performs one of two possible functions.

If it has the same value as the SFLPAG() attribute, it sets the subfile as a page-at-a-time subfile. The subfile will hold only as many rows as will fit on the page.

If it is larger than SFLPAG(), then it is a load-all subfile and the limit is 9999 rows. The SFLSIZ() value is used to allocate memory after the display file is opened to hold that many subfile rows. If you continue to add more rows, additional memory allocations are made in order to hold the added rows.

Tom

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/subfile-limit/#comment-87690 tomliotta Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:15:21 +0000 #comment-87690 The subfile limit is 9999 rows. Since you really shouldn’t be putting more than a couple hundred rows into a subfile, the 9999 limit shouldn’t be a problem.

Use the page-at-a-time method if you need to handle more than 9999 rows. This is discussed in the Information Center topic Example: A subfile with paging by i5/OS and high-level language program, and many other places.

In short, no, you can’t have a subfile with more than 9999 rows.

Tom

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