Gary Morrison writes ...
 
>Does anyone know the maximum length of data that can be passed to a COBOL SQL
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>and COBOL LE program?
 
By "COBOL SQL program" I assume you mean a COBOL program that has embedded SQL calls. The fact that a COBOL program has such calls has no influence on the data that can be passed to it. Now if the program is a CICS COBOL program, I believe there are CICS restrictions.
 
By "COBOL LE program" I assume you mean an LE COBOL program. That is, a COBOL program compiled using one of the LE COBOL compilers; or do you mean a COBOL program that calls LE services? [English, what a bother for Americans!]
 
According to the IBM COBOL Language Reference manual (SC26-9046-03):
 
Linkage Section: 134,217,727 bytes is the maximum size. However, this same pub says there is "no limit" to the number of level 01 and level 77 items in the Linkage Section. This seems to be a contradiction. If the 134,217,727 number is correct then there can not be so many level 01 or level 77 items that their storage size exceeds this number.
 
Hope this helps,
 
 
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