Re: MVT COBOL under MVS3.8j.

IOn 9/13/19 4:22 AM, Giuseppe Vitillaro giuseppe-yuD/ahkh7LvrZ44/[email protected] 
[H390-MVS] wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, Gary [email protected] [H390-MVS] wrote:
>
> > Oops, I'm tired and I'm past my bed time.  BUF value should have 
> read 4096
> > bytes or 4K.
>
> Mmm ... with BUF=4096 ... now ... I get:
>
> IKF0015I-C BUF PARM TOO SMALL FOR DD-CARD BLKSIZES - COMPILATION 
> ABANDONED.
>
> and I get the same error up to BUF=40000.
>
> With PARM='LIB,SIZE=9210K,BUF=50000,XREF' I'm back to:
>
> *OPTIONS IN EFFECT* SIZE = 9431040 BUF = 50000
> IKF0030I-D FRAGMENTED CORE. RUN IN LARGER SIZE REGION. COMPILATION 
> ABANDONED.
>
> It looks like a dead end?
>
> Peppe.
>
Maybe not.  If Dave Wade would be so kind to provide the SIZE and BUF 
values from his successful compile listing along with the defined 
storage size for the VM user, it might provide additional clue.

In this day and age when we deal with Giga and Terra bytes, it is all 
too easy to forget that the software we are playing with uses Kilobytes.


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