In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/27/2006
at 05:23 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Is it available or OCO?
It's probably available on VPL. If not, you can get the source for a
much older version from the Hercules project.
>I'd accept that if you could persuade me that there's a "generic"
>routine or macro used by the converter for all numeric conversions,
The Converter doesn't do numeric conversion. The Converter builds the
text buffer, which the Interpreter eventually scans.
>z/OS 1.7 accepts "REGION=2096128K" but fails on
>"REGION=2096129K" with
> IEF638I SPECIFIED NUMERIC EXCEEDS MAXIMUM ALLOWED IN THE REGION
>FIELD.
And who writes that message? Try REGION=0000000000002096128K.
>So, apparently, the reader does check
Reader? It's either the Converter or the Interpreter; they're not the
same and don't do the same checking. The Job fails if either fails the
JCL.
>BTW, what's the rationale for the maximum of 2096128K?
Presumably 2 GiB minus 16 MiB minus extended common.
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