Size of linkage and working-storage section?

vk_tanwani · New User Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 6

Plese any one tell me what is size of linkage and working-storage section in data division?

guptae · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:39 pm

Would u please give us clear idea what you want to know?

creator.abhishek · New User Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 32 Location: Pune

not clear , what u want to ask..
saize can be vary acoording to recieving items in cobol....

shreevamsi · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:10 pm

Hi,

Linkage Section:
134,217,727 bytes is the maximum size. However, this same publications says there is "no limit" to the number of level 01 and level 77 items in the Linkage Section. This seems to be a contradiction. If the 134,217,727 number is correct then there can not be so many level 01 or level 77 items that their storage size exceeds this number.

Source: IBM COBOL Language Reference manual (SC26-9046-03):

Hope this helps,

parikshit123 · Active User Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 269 Location: India

Hi,

Linkage section : 134,217,727 bytes

There isn't seems to be any direct limit on the working-storage section.

Please refer to the following document for further details:

http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/IGY3LR00/APPENDIX1.2?SHELF=igy3sh01&DT=20011206182158

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

Hi VK,

I'm always curious when someone asks what one of the compiler limits is.
Are you just curious or do you have a need to know? If so, what is that need?

I'm hoping you have a business need to know. I've never encountered a need.

Thanx and

P.S.

Aaah, I rechecked your thread and see that you didn't ans any of the other ques put to you, so I guess you won't ans this one either. Oh well.

chiranjeevi_mca · New User Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 27

HI,

64 k

chiranjeevi_mca · New User Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 27

The maximum size we can use for dataitems in one cobol prg is 64k(kilobytes)