Maximum amount of data that we can give thru SYSIN DD *

manikant pathak · New User Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 37 Location: bangalore

hi, can anyone tell me what is the maximum amount of data that we can give thru SYSIN DD *?

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superk · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:03 pm

There's no limit.

rsshanmugam · New User Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 62 Location: Basildon

if you are giving sysin dd * for a cobol program then maximum limit is 64kb since max size of working storage canbe 64k only.

sasi.palani · New User Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

Plz tell which one is right. but i think it is only 64kb .

superk · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:00 am

Well, this question was posted in the JCL forum, not a COBOL forum, so I'm not sure how you both are making any conclusions about this being specifically related to COBOL.

I have seen many Remote Job Entry (RJE) jobs where literally Gigabytes of data are passed instream to an output dataset, so I stand behind my original answer.

Now, if the O/P wishes to elaborate further, or clarify the question, then maybe the answer might be different. Although, even though I'm not a programmer, I could swear that I've read that the W-S section can contain many Megabytes of data.

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

You're right Kevin. I don't know where they get their info. It's a bit bizarre.

Try this link guys:

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IBM Link for Enterprise COBOL limits.
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