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COBOL Programming :: RE: Compiler option for override the external data item in FD

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Author: steve-myers
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 1:07 pm (GMT 5.5)

The record size limit is imposed because z/OS data management is limited to a maximum record length of 32760 bytes. This limit is imposed for two reasons.
  • z/Architecture I/O hardware is limited to a maximum physical record size of 65535 bytes. However, the arithmetic is done using z/Architecture signed half word arithmetic, which is limited to 32767 bytes.
  • 32760 is a multiple of 8.
Logical records in data sets using spanned variable length records can be 32767 bytes, which is why 32767 is allowed.


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