Re: Are SQL statement lines limited to 80 characters ?

Vern Hamberg via RPG400-L <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.rpg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
SQL statements can overflow many lines, but each line must fit within a 
certain length for source members, which have a record length, and 
SRCDTA length is 12 less than the record length. **free still has a 
SRCDTA field and can use everything from position 1 to its length.

Fixed, columnar format is limited to 8 to 80 (is this true for source 
files defined with record length of 112? I've never tried using a longer 
source PF. Nor have I tried embedded SQL for ILE RPG in a 92-long source 
PF.

*Regards*

*Vern Hamberg*

IBM Champion 2025 <cid:[email protected]> CAAC 
(COMMON Americas Advisory Council) IBM Influencer 2023


On 2/6/2026 1:38 PM, dfreinkel-cbKQUZO/W6aaLr2CDSiKrwC/[email protected] wrote:
> I believe it refers to the length of the SQL statement which can overflow many lines. I have done this before. However, if you are using a source file member, you will be limited to the length of the SRCDTA field.
>
> Darryl Freinkel
> A4G
> Telephone: 770.321.8562
>
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