Flexible Field Lengths

Payroll for North America provides some flexibility of redefining the lengths of certain fields. Whenever you redefine field lengths, you should exercise caution. Because the batch programs used by the system expect certain fields to be the lengths defined in the standard as-shipped application, you should be careful not to increase those field sizes beyond the maximums allowed. Otherwise, you might have to modify the batch programs to reflect the changes.

This topic provides a list of the maximum field sizes expected by specific PeopleSoft applications.

In many cases, Payroll for North America batch programs are designed to process larger-than-standard character field sizes. They can always process smaller-than-standard field sizes.

Here's an alphabetical list of the maximum field sizes allowed for character fields used by Payroll for North America programs:

As with character fields, with certain decimal fields the batch programs in Payroll for North America can accommodate field sizes larger than those defined in the standard application.

Here's an alphabetical list of the maximum field sizes allowed for decimal fields: