CEE0808 error on %alloc

["Richard B Baird" <rbaird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hey all,

i'm getting an error when trying to allocate space in a program.

it's CEE0808:

Message . . . . :   Requested storage size is not valid.
Cause . . . . . :   Requested storage size is not a positive number.  The
  exception occurred in procedure CEEGTST.
Recovery  . . . :   Use a valid argument and try the operation again.

this is the pertinant code:

D Buffer          S               *
D BuffSize        S             10I 0 INZ(16776704)

      i tried:

C                   eval      Buffer=%alloc(BuffSize)

      and

C                   eval      Buffer=%alloc(16776704)

and I get the same message.  It it virtually the first line of code in the
program.

A full dump of the program shows, at the time of the error,

NAME                  ATTRIBUTES           VALUE
BUFFSIZE              INT(10)              16776704         '00FFFE00'X

thanks,

Rick