>I think it would be useful to document this absence of practical 
limitations.

What you are really talking about is not the absence of a practical 
limitation but the absence of any enforced or expected limit. There is 
(always) a practical limit. That limit is whatever would cause "too much" 
resource to be used. That's not to say that that practical limit is 
necessarily anywhere near the typical in-practice usage.

I do not agree with your thought. When there is an enforced limit, I 
expect it to be documented. It is not feasible to document the lack of 
enforced limit for everything. Perhaps you can explain why it would be 
more important to document the fact that there is no enforced limit for 
this one thing than for the other tens of thousands of no-enforced limit 
things.

You should expect, in the absence of a statement that there is no enforced 
limit, that indeed there is no enforced limit. All enforced limits should 
be documented; it could well be that the doc falls short there, and we 
would appreciate learning of such shortcomings. There is always a 
practical limit.  The hope is that the practical limit exceeds the 
in-practice usage.

Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology Design


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