Memory Leaks, Core Cancer, Storage Creep, etc., are, collectively, PROGRAMMER ERRORS.
I can remember our 1976 Thursday afternoon SYSPROG meetings at Sun Oil in Dallas to review the slow growth in the size of CSA after each weekend's IPL, to see if we thought we would have to IPL Thursday night or last thru Friday prime time, all because LOGREC issued a GETMAIN for 1F6x bytes for each record, but only freed 1F0x bytes. Barry -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 4:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat! I remember VTAM doing that, serious gobble ...Steve..and of course CICS Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/ ________________________________ From: Steve Conway <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 2:44 PM Subject: Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat! CICS and VTAM were the kings of chewing up storage... Steven F. Conway, CISSP LA Systems z/OS Systems Support Phone: 703.295.1926 [email protected] From: Scott Ford <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 08/17/2012 02:43 PM Subject: Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat! Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Yep, zMan and Steve I remember storage creep, was it CICS ? Scott ford http://www.identityforge.com/ On Aug 17, 2012, at 2:38 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Steve Conway <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> I think I remember hearing "storage creep". >> > > Yeah, we had some of those. Their offices were a mess and they didn't bathe > often enough. > > Oh, wait, you're talking software...yeah, "core cancer" or "storage creep" > were what I was weaned on. > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
