Maximum lines in COBOL Program

lazer · New User Joined: 12 Jun 2004 Posts: 1

Hi all,
A maximum of how much lines we can type in a COBOL Program?

Regards
S. Lazer

sandip_datta · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:13 pm

Is there any limit ????
I have seen many programs spanning 15000 lines including comment lines.

Regards,
Sandip.

chenchi · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:37 pm

hi
column no 1 to 6 are for page and line numbers...
so we can code 999999 lines in cobol..

i think it is clear to u

chenchi

bluebird · Active User Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 127

I believe the num lines on the leftmost side of a member is purely informational... I try to test it but my session ended 878 abend (region related)

jz1b0c · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 4:51 am

yes accepted , this is the error I got. -878

IEA705I ERROR DURING GETMAIN SYS CODE = 878-10 NM224 ISPFPROC ISPFDD20 00
System abend code 878, reason code 00000016.
Abend in host command SELECT or address environment routine ISPEXEC.
IEA705I 00E17100 007ADAC8 007ADAC8 00007200 0001FFE0

muthukumarapandian · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 5:54 pm

Hi chinchi,

the sequence numbers consists of two things line number and page number , so max pages 999 and max lines 999 per page , the answer is 998001.

muthukumarapandian · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:35 pm

Hi,

U can simply tell the max line number is 999999 as first three digits specify page number and last three number specify line number.