SPA size while defining a transaction in an online region

Paul1983 · New User Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 37 Location: bangy

Hi,

While defining a transaction in an online region, I can see the following code

Sinkaravelan S · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:10 am

SPA - Scratch Pad Area is mainly used for conversional program.simply say, it is a temporary storage.Here you can store lot of message.
I think,Google is one of the best friend for programmer..why not try?

Thanks,

Paul1983 · New User Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 37 Location: bangy

Hi,

I'm aware of the SPA area concept.But while defining a new transaction, I'm not sure about on what basis the SEGSIZE and SPA size is given.I searched in google but didn't get much info..

Thanks,
Paul

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:50 pm

Hello Paul,

While Google is often your friend, there are a couple of places i'd suggest looking before going to the whole web. One is the "IBM manuals" which are linked at the top of each page - IMS documentation is available there:

publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/handheld/Connected/BOOKS/dfsapgg1/6.3.3?

publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/handheld/Connected/BOOKS/dfscr1g1/2.3.3.2?

A seond place to look is in the forum SEARCH. Many questions have previous discussion.

Sandy Zimmer · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:53 pm

Most fast paced high transaction processing installations do not use the SPA. Make sure that your installation allows it. Also remember that SPA and non-SPA MPP programs do not "talk" to each other.