SHAPE: maximum number of indexes?

[François]

Hello everyone,

I am using the SHAPE attribute to describe the production profile through their lifetime of many processes.
There are 200 of those processes, with a changing production pattern every year all along their 20 year life. I need to use the efficiency of the processes (NCAP_EFFX) to describe the production profile (same input but changing output).
So there is 200 indexes of 20 years set with the SHAPE attribute.

I encounter the following problem:
When I assign more than 110 of those indexes (so to more than 110 processes) by means of the NCAP_EFFX attribute, the results of the optimization runs are non-intelligible.
When I assign 110 or less of the indexes by means of the NCAP_EFFX attribute, the results are fine.

I am wondering if there is a technical limit to the number of indexes one can use with the SHAPE atribute.
Does anyone has a piece of answer?

Thank you in advance.
François

[Antti-L]

Could you please state the version of TIMES you are using?  Check the listing file if not sure (right above the Include File Summary).
In old versions of TIMES, the user-defined index was restricted to 2-100, and so maybe you are accidentally (or deliberately?) using an old version?  In newer versions, the index is restricted to 2-999. 
The index 1 has always been reserved to the constant SHAPE of 1.

If using an old version, could you also kindly explain the reason for doing so?

[EDIT:] The restriction mentioned above is only for the number of different SHAPE indexes; you can surely use those SHAPE indexes for any number of processes, say 100,000 different processes.

[François]

Hi Antti,
I am using TIMES version 3.8.1 and VEDA 4.4.7.
I am not sure if this is the lastest version recommended to be used with this version of VEDA though.
Regards,
François

[AKanudia]

Please refresh your TIMES code from this link: http://www.kanors-emr.org/download.php

I have sent you the username/pwd in a message on the forum

[François]

Please refresh your TIMES code from this link: http://www.kanors-emr.org/download.php

I have sent you the username/pwd in a message on the forum

Everything works fine with the version of TIMES 3.9.5.

Thank you Amit and Antti for your (quick) help.

Best regards,

François