M204.0409

M204.0409  LENGTH must be between 1 and 255

You issued a DEFINE FIELD command with a LENGTH attribute that was not between 1 and 255. The LENGTH attribute in the DEFINE FIELD command indicates how many bytes to reserve for each occurrence of a field in each record. See DEFINE FIELD command or Field design for more information on the DEFINE FIELD command and the LENGTH attribute.

Response: Correct and retry.

Message attributes:

RETCODEO=0	Sets online return code
RETCODEB=4	Sets batch (single user) return code
CLASS=E	Error class; the message can be suppressed with the X'04' bit setting of the MSGCTL parameter
AUDITER	Writes the message with line type ER to the audit trail
COUNT	Increments the error count (ERCNT) parameter

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