(I sent this to the Assembler list, but meant to ask "IBM-MAIN" - Sorry if some see it twice)
A question came up in the COBOL newsgroup about records (not blocks, i.e. LBI) > 32K. I know that QSAM doesn't support this. The current Enterprise COBOL LRM at: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IGY3LR31/APPENDIX 1.2 "RECORD CONTAINS integer - 1,048,575( (Note 5)) ... 5. Compiler limit shown, but QSAM limits it to 32,767 bytes." Now, although it isn't common, COBOL can use ESDS (rather than QSAM) for "sequential files". I checked the DFSMS manuals and got a BIT confused. It talked about SPANNED records with records > CI/CA, but I couldn't tell if this meant that you could or could not have an ESDS file with individual (spanned) records > 32K. As I say (in the subject) this is probably a "simple" question, that I just didn't look at the right place for (or didn't understand the answer), but I figured this group could tell me (point me to the correct manual). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
