maximum size of cobol internal table ?

Rameshs · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:21 pm

what is the maximum size of an array ?

can i give

01 REC.
02 ENTRY occurs 10000 times indexed by indx.
03....
03...

Note: Each row is 40 bytes.

superk · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:32 pm

16,777,215 bytes.

See here.

a027412 · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:58 am

SuperK, Could you please give the count in number of occurences. Is 16,777,215 bytes is equal to 16,777,215 occurences???

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:23 am

Hello,

To get the number of occurrences, divide 16,777,215 by the length of an occurrence.

smaru · New User Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 49 Location: India

Does the limit 16,777,215 specify for a single occurs table or whole of working storage??

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:45 pm

Hi,

I didn't get your question - what does "whole working storage" mean ? If you have only the table definition (OCCURS) in your Working -Storage, so yes that can be correct.

smaru · New User Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 49 Location: India

Sry abt tht... i hav run some test jobs and cleared my query.

Thanks a lot for your time.

Craq Giegerich · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:24 pm

Robert Sample · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:45 pm

If you check the manuals link at the top of the page, find the COBOL Language Reference manual, and look in Appendix B you will find the compiler limits. The current compiler has a limit of 128 megabytes (134,217,727 bytes) for all working storage items (not external) and the same for external items.