Lack of an SDWA will not cause an ESTAE to be bypassed. You should certainly consider using the long-recommended ESTAEX instead or at least (if running on which release this was introduced) specify SDWALOC31=YES, if your program can handle an SDWA above 16M. Having the SDWA be gettable above 16M means that if you have run out of region below 16M you can still get an SDWA if there is space available above 16M.
Regardless, the ESTAE would get control. The only time an established ESTAE routinne will not get control is if a more recently established recovery routine (whether ESTAE or FRR) chose to retry. Note that an ESTAEX routine might not be able to be given control if the required cross-memory environment cannot be established. That cannot happen for ESTAE because the environment is simply primary = secondary = home. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
