Jim Mulder wrote:

>  GETMAIN is not going to ever manage 32-bit storage. I would word you 
> requirement this way:

> " I would like to have a USE2GTO4G=NO|YES parameter on IARV64 GETSTOR, 
> similar to the already exisiting USE2GTO32G=NO|YES and USE2GTO64G=NO|YES.  
> And I would like to have a way to tell the system to reserve the 2GTO4G area 
> to be used only for USE2GTO4G=YES requests."

Perhaps, but no-one said something about FREEMAIN. If you get what you want 
with GETMAIN, how do you do the FREEMAIN or any other clean-up work properly? 
In what AMODE do you want to do the cleanup?

I believe those 31 bit limits are there for good reasons including backward 
compatibility and checking the registers during an ABEND.

I can ask more questions like this one: what about a chain of programs which 
call other programs and each of them have their own unique GETMAIN macros with 
varying AMODEs and parameters?

Why specific GETMAIN? What about STORAGE macro?

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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