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Conference ilbbak::ibi_focus

Title:FOCUS, from INFORMATION BUILDERS
Moderator:ZAYIUS::BROUILLETTE
Created:Thu Feb 19 1987
Last Modified:Mon May 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:615
Total number of notes:1779

560.0. "Did MAX Fieldname length change in 6.2.2 ?" by KAHALA::FOREMAN (Nothings Impossible, you just run out of time) Wed Sep 15 1993 11:47

    Hi,
    
    I've been away from IBI Focus for a while ( seems like so has everyone
    else from the activity in here ), but here's my question.  A user has
    a .MAS of an ISAM file that has been in use for some time now.  Just
    this week he's got an error that says an INDEXED field length cannot
    be greater than 12 characters.  We shortened the FIELDNAME to be
    less than 13 and it works fine.  Does anyone know if this error was
    caused by a recent upgrade to IBI FOCUS ?  We're running Version 6.2.2
    on the machine that produced this error.  I'm not sure if this version
    was recently installed there or not.  If anyone knows this to be
    correct, let me know.  I guess we'll have to do a search on all our
    FIELDTYPE=I fields and make sure we don't violate the new FIELNAME length
    limitation.
    
    Thanks,
    Sharon
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560.1Looks like it's been 12 since before 6.0 ...AIMHI::BEAUCHESNEMon Oct 11 1993 14:3813
    
    	Sharon,  according to the 6.1 Summary of New Features, regarding
    "Enhanced Field Name Recognition":
    
    `As part of the 6.0 FOCUS for VAX/VMS Release, users can now use long
    field names, up to 66 characters.'
    
    *but*
    
    `Note: Indexed fieldnames in a FOCUS database continue to be limited to
    12 charaters.'
    
    Moe