Jesse, While I like Region=0, one should always remember that there are installation parms and exits that control how "zero" is actually applied below and above the line. Ann old version of SAS that liked to getmain everything up to the top of private has bitten me in the past as it blew up on the system areas allocated down from top ☹
There is a wealth of data on private area usage in the SMF Type 30-4 records and the Type 78-2 records that the OP can use to check the history of Private and Common usage across changes in CEC, OS, etc. Simply checking the available private region for addresses before and after the migration may help to drill down on the problem. A simple change in Common storage can mean huge changes in available private. MXG is our friend. Ron Hawkins Director, Ipsicsopt Pty Ltd (ACN: 627 705 971) | m: +61 400029610 | h: +61 387399252 | email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2019 06:13 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Generic query on Region allocation failure This post is not intended to be enlightening; it's merely corroborative. We recently went from z12EC to z14. We had already upgraded to z/OS 2.3 with hardware support service. In the week or so afterwards, we experienced a handful of 'storage shortage abends' in tasks that had been running unchanged for years. AFAIK no technical explanations ever came forth. In the few PMRs we opened, the advice was to increase region size. We did. Problems went away. Move on. I do have one piece of advice. Never specify a smallish region size. If it's worth your time and effort to type in any region size at all, go for some number >16M. It generally costs nothing and may save some debugging grief down the road. I've seen cases where 0M may be required for a particular product. Again, the cost of doing so is minimal. Why quibble? Someone needs to refresh the communal coffee pot. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2019 7:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Generic query on Region allocation failure On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 10:16:00 +0400, Jake Anderson wrote: >IEF085I REGION NOT AVAILABLE ERROR CODE = 20 IEF187I NNNNNJJJ FAILED - >SYSTEM ERROR IN INITIATOR IEF472I NNNNNJJJ That means that the region that was specified is not available. Most likely, the region specified is less than 16M and that much storage is not available below the line. It is certainly possible that the available region size below the line is smaller on your old system than is available on your new system. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
