I was thinking something along the lines of;
"when  DB2 wants it, the rest of us will get it".

It's happened before.

Shane ...

On Thu, Dec 2nd, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Tom Harper wrote:

> I'm not so sure. Many CICS shops have pointed out to me that they are
> forced to run hundreds of CICS regions for the simple fact that 2G is not
> enough address space to contain all of their programs.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Execution above 2G is not provided in z/OS simply because there has been,
> and still seems to be, no valid business case for the large expenditure it
> would take to make it a reality. It is certainly a "logical" part of the 
> 64-bit architecture, but if there is no true need, it might never get done
> for the general case. Data, rather than code, is what is typically truly 
> growing by leaps and bounds.

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