[Robelle-l] set limits tablesize command

[Neil Armstrong]

Dear Suprtool users,

In the NM version of Suprtool we increased the maximum size
of the tables from 15 Mb for all tables to 2Gb's per table
for up to ten tables. (Although I don't recommend doing this
Suprtool is capable of it). Subsequently, because of the old
limitations, some people have the command:

set limits tablesize 15

which sets the size of the table to be only 15 Mb's. This is
in some customers Suprtool code mainly because previously
the default for the CM version of Suprtool is 1Mb, so some
customers have the set limits tablesize 15 sprinkled throughout
some scripts.

What then happens is the Suprtool stream aborts because the
table they are loading grows beyond 15 Mb. This is counter
productive, especially since there is really no overhead
associated with having a "big" table.

What I propose is that Suprtool ignores the value entered with
the set limits tablesize command, and that the maximum number
of megabytes be used instead of the value entered. This would
only be in the NM version of Suprtool of course.

Now I don't like doing something behind the customers back, so normally
I would print a warning message, but sometimes the people with the
$stdlist analyzers don't like it when we add new warning messages.

So my questions are:

1) Do we automatically ignore the value entered with set limits tablesize
and just take the maximum.
2) If yes, do we print a warning message.

Let the design debate begin. :)

Sincerely,


Neil Armstrong
Suprtool Architect
Robelle