Load COBOL table while it has a limit.

[Vicky Malhotra]

Hi,

Input file has billions of records that need to be processed. We want to load all the input file records in Cobol table. How this can be achieved when Cobol table has a limit?

[Robert Sample]

How this can be achieved when Cobol table has a limit?

The simple answer is that what you want to do is simply not possible. The COBOL compiler has a limit on how much data a program may have, and that limit cannot be exceeded. Furthermore, z/OS itself has a limit on the amount of memory that an LPAR may contain, and for most systems billions of records will exceed the amount of memory available.

So you write your application to process one record at a time without attempting to load billions of records into memory -- just like all the millions of other applications around the world are doing right now.