What is the size of commarea

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What is the size of commarea..

Answer / candan

32k, 32767 bytes exactly. The reason being the field which
contains the value of comm area is defined as 'PIC S9(04)
comp', this picture caluse occupies half word binary
storage space. With this storage this field can have values
ranging from -32768 to +32767. Lenght being a +value, we
can have 32767 bytes of comm area.

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What is the size of commarea..

Answer / peri

32763

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What is the size of commarea..

Answer / lakshmisudha

64k but it allows only 24k not possible to pass morethan 24k

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What is the size of commarea..

Answer / chudar

64kb

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What is the size of commarea..

Answer / bchvr

65535b

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