Determining size limits

Certain data structures or fields in the API have size limits. These structures are often names or other text fields that cannot exceed a predetermined length.

The following fields are examples of data structures that have size limits:

• Application type
• Archive description
• Copy group destination
• Copy group name
• File space information
• Management class name
• Object owner name
• Password

These limits are defined as constants within the header file dsmapitd.h. Any storage allocation is based on these constants rather than on numbers that you enter. For more information, see API type definitions source files.