Re: NEED RPG2/UNIBOL36 URGENT HELP

Neil Truby wrote: > "debadatta_mishra" <debadatta_mishra@infosys.com> wrote: >>Kindly provide the soln for the following problem >> >>While generating an unibol file whenever the file size exceeds 2GB the >>system aborts with system error. Replace your UNIBOL with a more recent version. >>We have the Unix file size limit beyond 2gb and are able to generate >>ASCII file greater than 2 GB we actually do not know what should done >>for RPG/UNIBOL Well, RPG used to run on System 34 and System 38, IIRC. It was a quaint ancient system that someone else used in my first industrial placement before I went up to university - and that was quite a depressingly long time ago. >>Is there any soln to this problem? You probably need to contact the compnay that provides you with RPG and UNIBOL and ask them for the latest version that is also aware of and capable of handling large files. >>Any pointers will also help. char *x = 0; >>The Server is HP Unix 11. > > > Please always provide your Informix version with questions. > > However I'd speculate here that you have a version prior to 9.40. In these > version there is a limitation of Informix (*) that precludes an ASCII file > of greater size than 2GBytes from being written out, irrespective of the > capabilities of the operating system. > > * This is the cue for Jonathan Leffler to reply and point out that my > assertion that this an Informix, rather than OS, limitation is bollocks. The assertion that this is an Informix, rather than OS, limitation is b......t! Sort of - it is half right, anyway. The issue is that the default stdio library on 32-bit platforms only permits files up to 2 GB, and in earlier versions of IDS (meaning prior to IDS 9.40) on 32-bit platforms, Informix was not explicitly configured to use the big file version of the stdio library - so it got stuck with the small file version. There's only marginally more to it than that - there were some changes in the calculations when we lifted the 2GB limit, but it was mostly trivial... Of course, there's no evidence that either RPG or UNIBOL has the faintest relevance to Informix either. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.01 -- http://dbi.perl.org/