P4211/P4210 approaching limit of 99 processing options. Want more

[Eric Lehti]

Would you be willing to share your technique of enhancing DREAM writer past the JDE limit of 99 processing options?
I think that F98301 could define up to 999 processing options because field DEOPT# is 3 bytes long.

I seem to remember that JDETIPS or those at Fike accomplished this enhancement.

I want to add processing option 97 to P4211 at my release A92.1. Oracle Tech support cautioned me, saying that A93.1 is using 98 processing options in program P4211, and my next upgrade will be more complex if I use now what is allocated in a future release.
I do have several work-arounds if I decide to not use processing options. e.g. in S999 routine, retrieve configureable specs from a custom data file, etc.

 

[slandess]

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Would you be willing to share your technique of enhancing DREAM writer past the JDE limit of 99 processing options?
I think that F98301 could define up to 999 processing options because field DEOPT# is 3 bytes long.

I seem to remember that JDETIPS or those at Fike accomplished this enhancement.

I want to add processing option 97 to P4211 at my release A92.1. Oracle Tech support cautioned me, saying that A93.1 is using 98 processing options in program P4211, and my next upgrade will be more complex if I use now what is allocated in a future release.
I do have several work-arounds if I decide to not use processing options. e.g. in S999 routine, retrieve configureable specs from a custom data file, etc.

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We created another DW form named P4211XX01 and used it to define another 99 processing options.

In the P4211 program, define a new array named @OP2 and call program X81OPT to load it:
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> 5554.20 CSR CALL 'X81OPT ' 81

5554.32 * ---- ----------

5554.44 CSR PARM 'P4211XX01 ' $9PID 10

5554.56 CSR PARM $9VERS 10

5554.68 CSR PARM 099 $9MAX 3 0

5554.80 CSR PARM 000 $9OPT 3 0

5554.92 CSR PARM @OP2




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[Eric Lehti]

Steve Landess, You provided a very interesting solution! Thanks. Eric