HP Data Entry and Forms Management System (VPLUS) Reference Manual (32209-90024)

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Application Notes

Workarounds for VPLUS Forms Fille 32767 Record Limit

Problem Description

When trying to add a form to my forms ﬁle in FORMSPEC, I get an INTEGER

OVERFLOW error. I understand that this is due to the forms ﬁle record limit of 32767 (see

RCEN [W1331556/RCEN/English] ). How can I add my new form ?

Solution

There are three solutions to the 32767 record limitation for VPLUS forms ﬁles:

1. Use two forms ﬁles. The disadvantage to this solution is the need to change any existing

applications to use the two forms ﬁles. In addition, there will be some overhead when

closing one forms ﬁle and opening another.

2. f you have ever deleted forms from the forms ﬁle, you should be able to gain some space

by creating a new forms ﬁle and copying the forms from the old to the new forms ﬁle.

This can be done online or via VPlus batch commands as documented in Chapter 7 of

the HP Data Entry and Forms Management System (VPLUS/V) Reference Manual

3. .Use two forms ﬁles as source and have a single target fast forms ﬁle using the new

VMERGE utility available on the the latest VPLUS patch on both MPE/V and MPE/iX.

This utility takes advantage of the fact that you can ﬁt a lot more forms into a fast

forms ﬁle than into a regular forms ﬁle.

4. This solution would require the ongoing use of two regular forms ﬁles for development,

but the applications could continue to use only the single merged fast forms ﬁle. The

VMERGE utility is documented in the MPE/iX 5.0 and MPE/V 3P Communicators.

HP Only Info

Additional note on solution #2 to copying forms to a new forms ﬁle:

2A. VCOPY job stream is an UNSUPPORTED job that can be given to the customer to

automate this task. This job stream copies all active forms and relates parent/child forms.

It can be found in Mountain View on Spam as VCOPY.VPLUS.BLOECHL. Instructions

are included.

2B. See instructions provided in SR 5003126110.