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I am using SPL2STMF/TIFF2PDF to convert AFPDS spools in PDF. Everything works fine, but with some spools in SPL2STMF I get the message CPF6DF9 buffer too small. These spools have 2 or 3 pages and apparently are similiar to other that are converted fine, and I don't know why they gave this error. I am using SPL2STMFRP version '0-03 00-03-18'. Can you suggest me what can I do? Thanks in advance, Giuseppe

Sorry for late reply.

According to DSPMSGD command, CPF6DF9 indicates:

Message . . . . : Transformed data buffer too small.
Cause . . . . . : The transformed data buffer of &2 bytes is too small to hold the &1 bytes of transformed data that is available. Only &2 bytes of data have been copied to the transformed data buffer. The remaining transformed data is lost.

That means you should increase buffer size (200,000) which is defined at line 57 and 233. You can try DEBUG(*YES) to determine the buffer size.

Hope this helps and waiting for your report.

uzaemon@Japan

Dear uzaemon,

thank you very much for your help.

I have increased the buffer size to 600,000 and now all work fine.

Which is the limit of the buffer size? To prevent future errors can I increase it to 1,000,000 for example?

Sorry for my late report and best regards,

Giuseppe

Again, sorry for late reply.

> Which is the limit of the buffer size? To prevent future errors can I increase it to 1,000,000 for example?

Actually, buffer size is limited by maximum size of character field of ILE-RPG.
You may set the buffer size to 65535 at maximum.

Note that this modification works on V4R5 or later.
You can specify as much as 32767 if you are using V4R4 or earlier.
See "ILE RPG for AS/400 Reference" -> "Appendix A. RPG IV Restrictions" -> "Character field length".

Hope this answers to your question.

uzaemon@Japan

Hi,

I've tried to resolve the CPF6DF9 error (buffer too small), but I'm not able to find which variables into the source SPL2STMFRP I have to change in order to increase the size of buffer.
Does anyone can tell me the name of the variables that I have to change, please?

Thanks.

Daniele

The name of the variable is "hptxbuflen".
But... I don't know why you gonna change the variable instead of the value of the variable.

uzaemon@Japan

Hi all,

this is an old thread, but we are facing the same problem Giuseppe had. Unfortunately, after compiling the RPG program, we are getting a different error:
CPF3CF2 hptopt = 20

We tried to set the buffer size lower and lower, thinking the problem could be any way related to this, but we finally tried again at 200.000 and the problem persists, so the issue must be related to a compiling problem. We did compile only the RPG (following the readme instructions) by creating the RPGMOD and with CRTPGM command. We get no compiling error, but at runtime we get the above mentioned CPF.

Has anyone else faced the same problem?
By the way, we use a V5R4 with the latest PTF cumulative.

Thanks in advance,
Monia

I think this forum is dead. I posted a request last week and there is no response.

FYI, I am in the same boat as you are. In my case, I get an error for an overlay PRTF file and *AFPDS.

Guys,

Please read the thread, http://uzaemon.freeforums.org/problem-w ... f-t11.html to resolve your problems.

I'm not a developer in IBM Rochester...
I would like you to understand that there are things beyond my control.

uzaemon@Japan

Yes we understand that, but we may hope you can help us anyway
In any case, we solved our problem, and that was a very weird issue. After compiling the problem using REXX command, we simply had to disconnect and reconnect. By doing so, the runtime error disappeared. So, for future problems like this, after creating the HPT programs/command using REXX, just disconnect and reconnect to test them.

Thanks all.

It seems like you resolved your problem reported 22 Jun 2009 by yourself.
I suppose that "disconnect and reconnect" means close and restart 5250 session.
In HPT process, "hptopt = 20" indicated "before start transform" phase. See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente ... PZHPTR.htm for detail information.
So "disconnect and reconnect" may clear/reset unexpected error condition.

Actually, user feedback is very rare and valuable.
Thanks again and have a good day!

uzaemon@Japan

I know you like partecipating people from another thread in your Forum, and i agree that having a web full of questions with no answers is quite useless.
Consider my feedback a "thank you" for your TIFFLIB

Andrea