It is a hard limit in 31-bit mode and also in 64-bit CMS for now, as I use standard storage management, which is also 31-bit. I don't expect this to change soon.
j. On 26 March 2010 17:17, Glenn Knickerbocker <[email protected]> wrote: > I often use CHOP 0 to generate a null record before each input record to > control the flow in another pipeline. I wish this had been true way, > way back when negative numbers were added to CHOP! I would have > suggested that -0 be a valid way to specify the end of the record, to > generate a null record *after* each input record. > > For anybody else who's puzzled over how to do this, the obvious answer > that finally struck me is just to use the largest supported number, > 2**31-1 (though this does have the inconvenience of requiring NUMERIC > DIGITS 10 to compute if you don't want to depend on your fingers to type > it correctly). > > Out of curiosity, though, is that a hard limit, or is it possible to > have a record longer than that? Not being in system support anymore, I > don't have a playground where I can define arbitrarily large machines to > try creating one. > > ¬R >
