Set RPTSTG(ON), that will tell you how many times the stack is being extended, and what the maximum size was. Set the next-to-last parameter in the STACK option to that value to avoid stack extensions. RPTSTG will also let you know about heap storage usage, too, so you can optimize that as well.
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