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This table indicates the limits imposed by the following versions of IBM COBOL:
| SAA | - Systems Application Architecture | |
| OSVS | - OS/VS COBOL | |
| VSC2 | - VS COBOL II |
Items exceeding these limits can be flagged in your program by using FLAG"SAA", FLAG"OSVS" and FLAG "VSC2" respectively.
| Flag | Limit | SAA Level 1 |
SAA Level 2 |
OSVS | VSC2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 404 | Number of operands being replaced in a COPY ...REPLACING statement | 150 | 150 | 150 | n/a |
| 409/ 421 | Number Of Files in a program | 25 | 98 | 65534 | 65534 |
| 410 | SAME RECORD AREA | n/a | 255 | 255 | |
| 412 | ALTERNATE Key Clauses | n/a | 63 | 253 | 253 |
| 413 | Length of RECORD KEY in one file | 120 | 120 | 255 | n/a |
| 415 | Data Section Size | n/a | n/a | 1048574 | 134217600 |
| 419 | File BLOCK Size | 32759 | 32766 | 32760 | 1048574 |
| 420 | File RECORD Size | 32759 | 32766 | 32767 | 1048574 |
| 424 | Linkage Section Records | n/a | 255 | n/a | |
| 425 | FILE Section Group Item | n/a | n/a | 32766 | 16777200 |
| 426 | Length of Group Item | 131071 | 3,000,000 | 131072 | 16777200 |
| 427 | Length of Elementary Item | 32767 | 3,000,000 | 32766 | 16777200 |
| 428 | Edited Digits | 127 | 127 | 127 | 249 |
| 429 | Table Size (variable length) | 32767 | 32767 | 32767 | 16777200 |
| 430 | VALUE Literal Length | n/a | n/a | 65534 | 16777200 |
| 431 | Number of characters in PIC char-string | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
| 432 | PICTURE Replication | 32767 | 3,000,000 | 99999 | 16777200 |
| 433 | Sort RECORD Size | 32767 | 32767 | 32750 | 32750 |
| 434 | Table Size (fixed length) | 32767 | 3,000,000 | 32766 | 16777200 |
| 435 | Table Element Size | 32767 | 32767 | 32767 | 8388607 |
| 436 | Total length of SORT ASC/DESC Key | 12 | 256 | 12 | 12 |
| 437 | Total length of MERGE ASC/DESC Key | 256 | 256 | 256 | 256 |
| 438 | Number of index-names per table | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 440 | Paragraph Names | n/a | n/a | 65534 | 1048573 |
| 441 | PERFORMS | n/a | n/a | 65533 | 4194302 |
| 442 | Number of OCCURS levels | 7 | 7 | 3 | 7 |
| 443 | Number of GO TO procedure-name DEPENDING ON Labels | 255 | 255 | 2031 | 255 |
| 444 | Number of IF Nesting levels | 30 | 30 | n/a | n/a |
| 445 | Number of CALL USING Parameters | 30 | 255 | n/a | 16383 |
| 446 | Number of SORT USING File-names | 8 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| 447 | Number of SORT Keys | 12 | 30 | 12 | n/a |
| 448 | Number of SEARCH ALL ... WHEN relation Conditions | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 449 | Number of UNSTRING Delimiters | 30 | 30 | 15 | 255 |
| 450 | Number of INSPECT TALLYING operands | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| 451 | Sort Key Size | 256 | 256 | 256 | 4092 |
| 452 | Number of PROCEDURE DIVISION USING parameters | 30 | 255 | n/a | 16383 |
| 453 | Number of ENTRY USING parameters | 30 | 255 | n/a | 16383 |
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