Questions

sibi · New User Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Chennai

Hi all
Is there any limit in the number of fields that i can have in a normal indexed file (ie non mianframe)and VSAM file(KSDS)?

priya · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject: Re

no specific limit for the no of fields...

But it's total length should not exeed the record length or a maximum of 2 GB.

badri · New User Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 9

is maximum length of record is 2 gb?????

sandip_datta · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject:

Previously, there was a size limitation of VSAM...it was 2 GB...now in recent version of VSAM, this is overcome. 2GB is the total size, not record length.

Unless SPANNED option is used, the maximum length is restricted to 32,761.

Regards,
Sandip.