What is the size of PDV?

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What is the size of PDV?..

Answer / mahesh

PDV is a data structure stored in memory to process one
record at a time. The data structure consist of all
variables coming from input data set(s), alongwith two
special variable _ERROR_ and _N_ and any user defined
variable. Size of the PDV is calculated as total size of
all variables available in PDV.

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What is the size of PDV?..

Answer / aparnapandey2008

It is based on the number of variables that is defined in
the dataset

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