File Extents and user-specific resources

It can happen, that the maximum of extents for the ZIP container is reached (310). If the amount of data to compress is important, it is advised to estimate the final size of the container and to open it by link to avoid this. See OPEN-ZIP-CONTAINER “Notes” (OPEN-ZIP-CONTAINER) for details and example.

Ensure that there is enough space in the user ID where the ZIP container is built. If there is not enough space, the container may be incoherent and so unusable. Its content cannot be accessed any more.

If you want to process a large number of files using BS2ZIP, sufficient user address space must be available under your user ID (see ADDRESS-SPACE-LIMIT in the user entry).