What is the size of commarea

Answer Posted / 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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