Automatic storage for procedure exceeds maximum.

I looked this up in the manual and I can't find an automatic storage maximum.

I'm trying to do a LOT inside a procedure with IFS files, and I defined my buffers pretty big.

One buffer to read in from the IFS. I first defined it with a little less than the 16 meg max, trying to get it in one chunk.
But I also had another holding area defined with (a little less than) 16 meg.

But the compile "blew up", meaning it abended with the above error, and produced a service dump, a job log printout, and a QDSPJOB printout. The compile listing has a message at the bottom, An error occurred during translation.

But I brought down my length for the two above fields to 160,000.

The job log message is MCH4216, and here is the message. My automatic storage for the procedure does not add up to that high with the lesser value, so what am I missing?

--Alan



Message . . . . : Automatic storage for procedure exceeds maximum.
Cause . . . . . : The object was not created because an internal system
limit was reached. Not enough automatic storage was available to allocate a
data object within a procedure. Recovery . . . : Reduce the number or
size of automatic data objects within the procedure. Technical description .
. . . . . . . : The current offset in automatic storage of the next
available byte is 16775616 bytes and the maximum offset is 16776703 bytes.
The number of bytes required to allocate the data object is 160004. The
dictionary index for the data object is 340, the dictionary entry is
X'080400010000017C00000000000271040000001D000000007000800080010000', and the
offset to the dictionary entry is 10900 bytes. The dictionary index for the
procedure is 0, the dictionary entry is
X'0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000', and the
offset to the dictionary entry is 20 bytes. The VLIC log note ID is
0501E617.



-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Cassidy
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 3:23 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: RE: The essence of RPG ( was Free format H, F, D and P specs)

This one is a good encapsulation of the rest of them, I think...
"..It is the continuing evolution and betterment provided by IBM that keeps the language relevant and useful..."
...without deprecating very much, either...

You can please some of the people all of the time, and you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time!

--Alan


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