I think it would be worthwhile to propose to John Ehrman that the maximum for BL fields be upped to 64 kibibytes - 1 (65535). This is already the [DS-only] limit for C and X data. (For DBCS G data it is 64 kibibytes - 2 (65534) for obvious reasons. )
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA