Because it was written very early in the 360 era. On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 10:35 AM Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 10:15:21 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: > > > >>the programmer must > >>indicate to IEBGENER how much storage it needs. > > > >I think you mean that sufficient REGION must be provided. That is no > >different than any program. > > > >That same manual specifies > > > ><quote> > >The minimum region sizes are: > >o IEBCOPY -- REGION=28K + 2(largest blocksize in the job step) rounded > >to the next highest 2K. > ></quote> > > > I know I'm guessing, but when I see such as: > MAXLITS=n > specifies a number, from 1 to 2730, that is greater than or equal to the > total > number of characters contained in the FIELD literals of subsequent RECORD > statements. Any DBCS characters used as literals on FIELD parameters count > as two characters each. > > ... I can't imagine why IEBGENER imposes such a chore on the programmer > other than so it can GETMAIN a suitable, not profligate, amount of storage. > > Many other programs have nothing similar. > > (I'd say "bytes" for the first and last occurrences of "characters".) > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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