Vis-à-vis fragmentation, I was once tasked with finding the 'largest chunk of free storage' in order to order to set region limit in IEFUSI. I no longer have the code, but I believe I used VSMLIST to scan through available chunks to locate the biggest one. This may be overkill for your needs, but it was very reliable.
The problem being addressed was a shrinking address space that gradually reduced the available storage over time until the initiator was bounced. That problem may be long gone in z/OS, but the technique should still be valid. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2014 10:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How much storage is left? But remember that "how much" has several answers: not only "Where?" but "In how big a chunk?". Fragmentation can ruin your day... On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Blaicher, Christopher Y. < cblaic...@syncsort.com> wrote: > Look at the LDA. Here is how to get to it. > USING PSA,R0 > L R3,PSAAOLD POINT AT ASCB > DROP R0 > USING ASCB,R3 > L R3,ASCBLDA POINT AT LDA FOR THIS TASK > USING LDA,R3 > > Chris Blaicher > Principal Software Engineer, Software Development Syncsort > Incorporated > 50 Tice Boulevard, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 > P: 201-930-8260 | M: 512-627-3803 > E: cblaic...@syncsort.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of scott > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2014 12:27 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: How much storage is left? > > In an assembler program how can you find out how much > storage/memory is remaining? Do getmains till the return code replies > back there is no more? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
