Getting error "Machine storage exhausted"

maridawson · New User Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 59 Location: chennai

hi,
i have coded a tool which uses ISPF dialogs,REXX program and edit macros.
from the ISPF dialog screen according to the input, i am calling 3 type of macros. recently, a new requirement came and i did some changes to one of the macros. while trying to execute the macro, i am getting an error "Error executing line 512: Machine storage exhausted"

i tried dropping some variables, but it is not working and i am getting the same error.

expat · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:47 pm

You have run out of storage. Can you not increase your region size ?

Tsssk, a smidge remiss of me suggesting the lazy way around this. Although not every site allows users to override the set defaults for size.

What are you doing in your EXEC ?

Are you trying to process large datasets - if so - this is one of the most common causes of the problem. You will need to learn to process the data in manageable sized chunks. There are examples of this because I have posted it some time in the dark and distant past upon this very forum.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:23 pm

maridawson · New User Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 59 Location: chennai

i will explain what i am doing with the tool ......

Rexx program - which displays the ISPF dialogs, processes inputs from user and executes any of the 3 macros.

Ispf screen - which will get the inputs from the user like component name, path , what type (jcl/proc/parm).

JCL macro- which checks for the parameters in JCL and creates a result dataset.

PROC macro - checks for the parameters present in the PROC and creates a result dataset.

PARM macro - checks what type of parm it is and if needed it calls another macro (macro calling a macro) , after checking parameters the result will be VPUT to the PARM macro , result dataset will be created.

I have used many VPUT,VGET variables for processing , especially the flow goes from REXX--> macro (or) REXX-->macro-->macro.

i just added a piece of code in the PARM macro, from then onwards i am getting this error.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:52 pm

still nothing useful to help

maridawson · New User Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 59 Location: chennai

Actually i added the code in order to remove brackets '(' and ')' from the variables. i had put that in a function and made it to perform whenever brackets are found in the variables.

This is what i did. i do reveiw the changes, but what i am asking is , give me suggestions like , The things thats uses more storage.

why not dropping a variable alone is not effective ?

Are the shared variables givin this problem ?

maridawson · New User Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 59 Location: chennai

This is the error i am getting,

Error running PARMCHK, line 515: Machine storage exhausted

here is the line :

051500 PARM.RECCNT= "COLLECT STATISTICS :",
051600 "Found on table" TBLNAME"."

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 3:05 pm

maridawson · New User Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 59 Location: chennai

Thanks Enrico ...... you r genius

.....

actually that loop is executing repeatedly ..... i thought the machine storage exhausted is something to do with the memory and not with my logic .... i was wrong .....

Thanks once again ..... i will look after the looping now .....

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 3:19 pm

the message is a bit obscure....
the real meaning is that rexx was not able to obtain virtual storage, not machine/real storage

maridawson · New User Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 59 Location: chennai

Thanks for the help enrico .....

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 3:24 pm

You are welcome