Work management limits

This topic contains the values for the system limits that are related to work management, such as limits on the number of jobs on a system, the number of active subsystems, and the number of jobs in a subsystem.

Table 1. Work management and spool file limits

Work management and spool file limits	Value
Maximum number of jobs on the system	485 000
Maximum number of active subsystems	32 767
Maximum number of jobs in a subsystem	32 767
Maximum number of prestart jobs initially started when subsystem started	9999
Maximum amount of temporary auxiliary storage that can be specified for a job	2 terabytes or *NOMAX
Maximum number of active memory storage pools	64
Maximum number of spooled files per job	999 999
Maximum number of spooled files in the system and basic user ASPs	Approximately 2 610 000
Maximum number of spooled files in each Independent ASP	Approximately 5 000 000
Maximum number of records for a printer file	2 147 483 647
Maximum page number that can be displayed for a spooled file using the DSPSPLF command 1	9999
Maximum page count that can be displayed for a spooled file using the WRKSPLF, WRKOUTQ, WRKJOB OPTION(*SPLF) commands 2	99 999
Maximum number of writers that can be active at the same time	approximately 43 600
Notes: If the page count exceeds 9999, then the display will still show page number 9999. The iSeries™ Navigator interface does not have this limitation and shows the correct page number. If the page count exceeds 99 999, then ++++++ will be displayed. The iSeries Navigator interface does not have this limitation and shows the correct page count.