COBOL - maximum no of PERFORM statements

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COBOL - maximum no of PERFORM statements

Postby lakshmikanth » Wed Nov 02, 2011 1:43 am

How many maximum no of PERFORM statements can be used in COBOL program??
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Re: COBOL

Postby enrico-sorichetti » Wed Nov 02, 2011 1:51 am

nothing that You could not find Yourself starting from
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/ ... index.html
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Re: COBOL

Postby lakshmikanth » Wed Nov 02, 2011 1:57 am

you mean,i can use any no of times??
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Re: COBOL

Postby Robert Sample » Wed Nov 02, 2011 2:41 am

you mean,i can use any no of times??
Can you not read Appendix B of the COBOL Language Reference manual for Enterprise COBOL (SC23-8528), which clearly states a maximum of 4,194,303 PERFORM statements?
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Re: COBOL

Postby Ed Goodman » Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:55 am

Now he doesn't have to Robert.
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Re: COBOL

Postby BillyBoyo » Wed Nov 02, 2011 4:17 am

It does clearly state that, but I wonder exactly what it means? The maximum number of Procedure-names (same source) is 1,048,575 :-)

I guess to all but code-generators, the is effectively no limit. If you could, continously, code one perform in 20 seconds, 24/7, it would take nearly three years to reach the limit. I doubt you could edit the file after a while, either :-)
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Re: COBOL

Postby Robert Sample » Wed Nov 02, 2011 8:28 am

It does clearly state that, but I wonder exactly what it means? The maximum number of Procedure-names (same source) is 1,048,575
And you are allowed to PERFORM the same paragraph / section more than once....
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Re: COBOL

Postby dick scherrer » Wed Nov 02, 2011 9:21 am

Hi Guys,

It does clearly state that, but I wonder exactly what it means? The maximum number of Procedure-names (same source) is 1,048,575
Ta! Daa!! And we have re-usability within the same module. . . :)

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