Hi,

The issue I have is that I have to achieve personalization of the filter screen. so for that I am saving the data currently selected by user into a FOC file. At the time of loading the HTML next time user logs in I need to read the FOC file to see what values were selected by user the last time he/she visited the screen.

Since few fields on the page are multiselect I have to save then as comma separated in my FOC. But since MAS file allows a max of A256 chars for an alphanumeric field I cant save a string of length more than A256 in my FOC file.

So is there a better and simpler approach available???

Please help.

Thanks,
CD

CD

What release and platform are you on?

With 7.1 you can have A3968 in plain FOCUS files and much much more in XFOCUS files.

hi Alan,

I am working with 7.1

But can we have A3968 in the MAS file also, since I need to access the FOC file I want to have a MAS file.

Thanks
CD

Yes, the alpha field can now be 3968 characters. The MFD (.MAS) should be:

FIILENAME=PROFILE,SUFFIX=FOC
SEGNAME=PROFILE, SEGTYPE=S1,$
FIELD=theUserId,ALIAS=UID,FORMAT=A16,$
FIELD=myFieldName,ALIAS=MFN,FORMAT=A3952,$

Whilst the alpha field can be 3968, that is also a segment size limit.

I find this increase really useful, one of the best bits of 7.1 for me. Have a try, any problems come back.

thank Alan...thanks a ton