I've heard of this issue recently at two different PeopleSoft sites. When a program is trying to
insert or update a long character data value into a table, the value is cut off at or around 256 characters
or an error reports that the value is too long for the column.
Unfortunately, that's all I know about it. Have you run into this? It's probably
controlled by a setting somewhere, but what I have to offer is a rather weak workaround.
Take the value and slice it up into 250-character chunks and then have the database
reassemble them as part of the SQL statement. (SQR syntax is used in this example
but the same could apply to PeopleCode.)
let $X1 = substr($Long, 1, 250)
let $X2 = substr($Long, 251, 250)
let $X3 = substr($Long, 501, 250)
begin-sql
INSERT INTO PS_MY_TABLE
(MY_KEY, MY_DATA)
VALUES ($Key, $X1 || $X2 || $X3)
end-sql
Yes, admittedly it's an ugly kludge. I'd appreciate any information you
may have on this or a more elegant solution.
