Maximum width of a file for the SRCFILE parameter

In V3R7 or later releases, the maximum width of a file for the Source File (SRCFILE) parameter on the CRTSRVPGM or UPDSRVPGM command is 240 characters. If the file is larger than the maximum width, message CPF5D07 appears. For V3R2, the maximum width is 80 characters. For V3R6, V3R1 and V2R3, there is no limit on the maximum width.

Starting in IBM® i 7.3, the binder source can be processed out of stream files (SRCSTMF parameter). Even though there is no record length for a stream file since a stream file by definition is a stream of bytes, the maximum length of a line (the number of characters between newline characters) that can be processed by the binder language compiler is 240 characters.