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Status Not under consideration
Workspace CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on May 10, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

a new command if you have a address that is returned from a exec cics getmain it will be nice to able to ask CICS the size of the getmained area

if you are using getmain shared from one program 

and you get the address passed to a another program it will be nice if there was a command where you can ask cics storage manager how long the getmained area is from program number 2.

cics do know it as freeMain only need the pointer. 

 

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     May 10, 2023
    CICS Development: Declining this Idea as the functionality already exists.
  • Guest
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    |     May 10, 2023

    Yes thanks for the hint

  • Guest
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    |     May 10, 2023
    CICS Development: Have you looked at the INQUIRE STORAGE command? This provides the functionaility you describe.

    See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/6.1?topic=commands-inquire-storage

    In particular you can issue

    EXEC CICS INQUIRE STORAGE ADDRESS() FLENGTH() ELEMENT()

    where address specifies that you are inquiring about a single area of storage and identifies the area. The address that you specify can be anywhere within the area about which you are inquiring; it does not have to be the start of it. CICS returns the length of the area (in FLENGTH) and its starting address (in ELEMENT) if it is a valid element of user task storage.

    Does this satify your requirement ?

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