Enabling or Disabling Data Field Length Checking

To enable or disable data field length checking:

  1. Select PeopleTools, and then Utilities, and then Administration, and then PeopleTools Options.

    The PeopleTools Options page appears.

  2. From the Data Field Length Checking drop-down list box, select a value based on the character set that you are using for the database:

    Field or Control Description

    Others

    Select if you are using a Unicode encoded database or a non-Unicode SBCS database. This option prevents special field length checking, which is not required by these types of databases.

    MBCS

    Select if you are running a non-Unicode Japanese database on any other platform. This option enables field length checking based on a nonshifting DBCS.

    Alternatively, you can set this option by altering the PSOPTIONS.DBLENGTHTYPE field in the PSOPTIONS table. In the PSOPTIONS.DBLENGTHTYPE field in the PSOPTIONS table, select a value from the following

    Field or Control Description

    N

    Select if you are using a Unicode encoded database or a non-Unicode SBCS database. This option prevents special field length checking, which is not required by these types of databases.

    M

    Select if you are running a non-Unicode Japanese database on any other platform. This option enables field length checking based on a nonshifting DBCS.

    Note:

    The non-Unicode DBCS settings are specifically oriented to Japanese language installations, because Japanese is the only language that the PeopleSoft system supports in a non-Unicode DBCS encoding. All languages other than Western European languages and Japanese are supported by the PeopleSoft system only when using Unicode encoded databases.

    Note:

    The value to specify data field length checking must be set correctly in order for PeopleSoft applications to perform correctly in a browser.

  3. Click the Save button.