Memory allocation issue resulting in protecction exception

mlp · New User Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 91

Few months back I had faced issue regarding an IMS MPP. The MPP was representing an IMS transaction and in turn MPP was calling numerous programs which were having huge working storages. All of the working storages were adding up to round about 48M of space and the IMS online region limit was set to 6400K (due to some reason). So whenever the memory requirement was exceeding the 6.4M the program use to abend. Please note that all the calls made from MPP were dynamic. So in some of the "memory intensive" logical flows (where most of the modules were called), the program use to abend for rest of the flows the program use to work fine.

Now question here is, in order to satisfy the functionality we had no option but to have huge working storages. But like CICS, cant we allocate the memory space as and when we require, use it and then release it, in IMS or any non-CICS env?

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 2:19 pm

you wrote a large (an somewhat incorrect) post about COBOL CANCEL in another thread,
hopefully you now understand CANCEL; why can not that be employed?

mlp · New User Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 91

As a matter of fact we did employ it (to an extent). But did not work in this particular case. But there is a dependecy of data from one module to another module. So even if we cancel all the modules those we can still we are well above the region limit. And that is reason why I want to know whether there is way of allocating memory run-time (like CICS GETMAIN)?

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:30 pm

why try to allocate memory when you have already exceeded your limit?

and yes, the LanguageEnvioronment has methods for allocating memory,
a 'batch' getmain.

Here is a link to the LE Manuals

Here is a link to the LE Overview

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:47 pm

mlp · New User Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 91

The protection exception is not coming while allocating memory. It is coming while accessing it. Once the already allocated memory access exceed the adreess 6.4M (region set limit) then it fails with protection exception.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:54 pm

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:55 pm

Hello,

mlp · New User Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 91

Hi Enrico,

You are right. As and when the programs were dynamically called the memory was being added. So at the time when it exceeded the 6.4M limit it was failing.

It was resulting in U4038 abend and in fault analyzer it was showing as protection exception.

mlp · New User Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 91

Hi Dick,

I have found two functions CEEGTST and CEEFRST which can allocate and free (respectively) the heap storage.

We will try to use them and see whether it works or not.

Thanks for the info.