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General Discussion / l+f: AFP - all for paws :-)
Last post by Guido Schnepp -
Did you ever know that AFP is also for dogs? Sure, if you ask our local pet supply store (see attachment)!  :D

Have to tell it the AFP Consortium that we need a new AFP subspecification. MO:DOGS sounds reasonable, not?

O:)
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General Discussion / ACIF changing resource token names in presence of FQNs
Last post by Guido Schnepp -
Hi ACIF guys,

a colleague of mine told me about a specfic problem we encounter with ACIF. ACIF removes existing token names resp. replaces it with empty default name (8 times x'FF') in case an FQN type x'01' triplet is found. This is fully ok following the MO:DCA specification since thoese FQN triplets contain the only significant name if present. If not it's the old-style token name.

Is there any switch to stop that behavior because of an ancient piece of software we use after ACIF still requiring token names even if FQNs exist on resources.

Many thanks in advance.
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General Discussion / Re: How to overcome 255 layout limit in PPFA code
Last post by RogerBolan -
Hello,
I know I am posting to an old thread, but I haven't been following this new 'forum.
It looks like your LAYOUT records are the same except for the name of the overlay. 
See page 384 in the PPFA PDF ib6pug13.pdf  (at least that is the copy I'm reading).
The name of your OVERLAY can be a VARIABLE with the name read from the record data.
If you can put the name of the overlay into your data, you could use many fewer LAYOUT definitions.
--Roger
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General Discussion / Re: How to overcome 255 layout limit in PPFA code
Last post by JB Condon -
Luke,
PPFA is still a supported product, so you should open a customer support request -- either with IBM (if you are running PPFA on a mainframe) or with Ricoh (if you are running PPFA on a workstation). The product service team can then let you know if they have any suggestions about how to handle this limit.
Best Regards,
Jack
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General Discussion / How to overcome 255 layout limit in PPFA code
Last post by lukejea -
We have reached the PPFA layout limit. There is a max limit of 255 layouts in PPFA code. We maintain about a 1000 different forms and all these forms are defined using the layout command in PPFA. In our data file any one of these forms can be printed so there's no way for us to split the PPFA file. Is there a way to increase the limit? Here is an example of our code

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PAGEDEF placeholder replace yes
     WIDTH 8.5 in
     HEIGHT 11 in;

PAGEFORMAT  placeholder 
     DIRECTION back;

LAYOUT C'mylayout1' BODY
  POSITION .25  in ABSOLUTE .25 in
  FONT TIMES
  OVERLAY MYTEMPOVER1  8.5 in 11.0 in;
  FIELD START  1 LENGTH 60
  POSITION 2.0  in 1.6  in;

LAYOUT C'mylayout2' BODY
  POSITION .25  in ABSOLUTE .25 in
  FONT TIMES
  OVERLAY MYTEMPOVER2  8.5 in 11.0 in;
  FIELD START  1 LENGTH 60
  POSITION 2.0  in 1.6  in;

...

LAYOUT C'mylayout254' BODY
  POSITION .25  in ABSOLUTE .25 in
  FONT TIMES
  OVERLAY MYTEMPOVER254  8.5 in 11.0 in;
  FIELD START  1 LENGTH 60
  POSITION 2.0  in 1.6  in;

As you can see there are about 255 layouts. If I add another layout I'll get an error when I compile the PPFA. Is there a way around this?