Chapter 13: Limits

APS enforces the following size and programming limitations.

COBOL/2

Item
Max

Characters in paragraph name

24

Customization Facility

Item
Max

Indents

50

Nested macros

139

Macro call arguments

1000

Nested INCLUDEs

10

DECLARE statements:

 

   Subscripts

300

   Length of subscript

12

   Tables

200

   Parts per table

1000

   Length of a table part

78

System limits:

 

   Work files (beginning with WORK4)

8

   LRECL for INCLUDE lib

80

   LRECL for extended INCLUDE lib

140

Online Express

Item
Max

Database access specifications

50

Record name occurrences

20

Field qualification occurrences

70

Scrolling for repeated blocks

1

Field mapping for repeated blocks

2

Subschema limits:

 

   Files, databases, tables

130

   DB2 tables

99

   Records

160

   Qualifiable fields

990

Painters

Item
Max

Application Painter:

 

   Associated screens

30

   Associated data structures

60

   Associated USERMACs

90

Screen Painter:

 

   I/O and text fields

500

   1-byte fields in ISPF

25

   Characters in field name

16

   Field attributes per ISPF screen

127

   Trancode construction fields

8

Scenario Painter:

 

   Fields per screen

400

Report Writer

Item
Max

Report mock-up lines:

 

   Coded in Copylib

200

   Coded in Report Mock-Up Painter

200

Reports for FD

15

SOURCE/SUM/ VALUE statements

300

S-COBOL

Item
Max

Paragraph

600

Characters in paragraph name

24

Indentation levels per nested IF structure

14

Paragraph arguments per program

400

EVALUATE statement:

 

   Conditional fields

255

   WHEN conditions

102

Symbol table entries

1801

 


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