FILE maximum reached!

[Olmos, Fernando (Sericon at Alcoa)]

Thanks guys.

I get the idea now.

Mind you; you would have thought COGNOS would have increased the limit by
now or at least given us the option to set it at run time. What if I want to
dynamically add file references at run time!? Now that would be a challenge!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pickering, John (NORBORD) [mailto:PICKERIJ@norbord.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:45 AM
> To: 'Olmos, Fernando (Sericon at Alcoa)'; 'powerh-l@cube.swau.edu'
> Subject: RE: FILE maximum reached!
> 
> 
> One of the easiest ways I've found to free up file statements 
> is to identify
> those reference files which are in the screen just to 
> validate a code and/or
> get a description for it. It's a rare screen with 31 files 
> that doesn't have
> at least a couple of these.
> 
> I would then create a ghost screen to do the validation and 
> pass back the
> description. Call it from the input procedure of the field to 
> be validated,
> pass it the contents of fieldtext, a flag for ok or not ok 
> and an item for
> the description. The ghost screen does everything in the initialize
> procedure. Do a get file optional using the value passed from the big
> screen, test accessok and set the flag appropriately, set the 
> temp to the
> description or whatever and return. The big screen can then 
> test the value
> of the flag and issue the error message or carry on as 
> normal. Yup, it's a
> bit more coding than I'd like in a 4gl but it gets around the 
> file limit.
> 
> Regards,
> JWP
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olmos, Fernando (Sericon at Alcoa)
> [mailto:Fernando.Olmos@alcoa.com.au]
> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 10:15 PM
> To: 'powerh-l@cube.swau.edu'
> Subject: FILE maximum reached!
> 
> 
> I am sure you guys have come across this before countless 
> times. My problem
> is, how do I compile a program that has reached its limit in  
> the number of
> possible FILE statements?
> 
> I believe the max is 31 files per QUICK screen. What if you had to add
> another to make it 32?
> 
> I know there is a simple solution, which I cannot remember 
> what it was, but
> I think it involved splitting the screen into two programs. Is there
> examples of this?
> 
> Cheers
>