Re: CICS error

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Subject: Re: CICS error
From: Tony Thigpen (tony@vse2pdf.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2008 - 17:19:34 EDT


I think you were seeing a 'storage compression'. It was very common in 
CICS/VS. If CICS ever gets low on storage, it would throw out all 
programs loaded in 24 bit area and not reload them until they were again 
referenced.

Tony Thigpen


-----Original Message -----
  From: Frank Swarbrick
  Sent: 04/07/2008 02:41 PM
>>>> On 4/4/2008 at 1:47 PM, in message
> <003701c8968c$df396e90$9dac4bb0$@com>,
> Dennis McLoud<dmcloud@systronicsinc.com> wrote:
>> Are you running CICS/TS? Are the programs all running below the line? We
>> have not seen this problem since going to CICS/TS and moving most of our
>> programs above the line. You should only see this error after program 
>> space
>> compression. CICS doesn't need the pointer to the library unless the 
>> program
>> is flushed from memory. You could at least make the problem less 
>> frequent by
>> giving CICS more DSA. 
> 
> I think there is one other case when this can happen.  It appears, though I
> can't prove it, that if a program is not used for quite a long time it also
> gets 'removed'.
> 
> We have a CICS that is only used during business hours.  For a while we were
> not cycling it at night, we'd just leave it up.  We generally implement CICS
> programs while the primary production CICS region is down; thus no PHASEIN. 
> But the secondary region (the 9-5 region) would still get this error the
> first time an attempt was made to use this program in the morning.  My
> assumption is that at some time during non business hours, which lasts over
> 12 hours, all of the 'inactive' programs are 'flushed', so that an attempt
> is made to reload it; bit it fails since the pointer is no longer pointing
> to the correct area (since the phase has moved elsewhere).
> 
> If anyone has more information on this I'd be interested to know about it.
> 
> What I don't understand is why CICS/TS cannot be modified so that, if it
> hits the situation where it would currently issue the DFHLD0203 error, it
> would instead do an implicit phasein.  If I submitted this requirement to
> WAVV would you all vote yes on it?
> 
> Frank
> 
> 


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