Barbara, Thanks. This may be a similar issue. I am going to have them use 0M then I will not need to read a dump. Yeah!!
Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Barbara Nitz > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 1:31 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Question on size of IEFBR14 and z/OS V1.11 > > >I got a question from one of my co workers on why his job abended with > an > >S822 Reason=00000014 > > > >The job have over 200 steps running mostly DB2 Tools from CA. There > is no > >region size on the jobcard. Each step (except the one that got the > S822) > >has a REGION=0M > > > >Our default region size is problem 1M. > > >I am thinking with the changes to IEFBR14 for z/OS V1.11 (we are > coming off > >z/OS V1.9) that we just need to add a region size to this step. > > Whatever the reason for the 822 is (new release/changes to IEFBR14 - > though > I doubt that): With a region size of less than 16MB (? - in any case > less than > your private region below) MVS DOES check region sizes below the line. > Something maybe in the prior steps hasn't properly cleaned up - and I > *would* > investigate that if I were you - so 1MB region below isn't left > (assuming your > IEFUSI does not override that 1MB region size to something larger). > > With a region size of 0M MVS does NOT check region below the line for > size. > That's why your region=0M steps do not show any problem, even though > probably a lot less private below is available than you think it is. > > I spent quite some time debugging a similar 822 on certain Endeavor- > jobs. My > IEFUSI unconditionally overrides any region smaller than 32M to give > the full > region below. Since only about 7.5MB instead of the full 8MB region > were left > and the rest not properly freed by Endeavor, that job kept abending 822. > Setting region=0M cured it, and IBM told me that with region sizes > larger than > a certain size (16Mb or 32MB) VSM does not check region size below > anymore. > > Regards, Barbara > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
