The question was, is there a business case for execution about 2G? If CICS isn't putting it's _data_ above 2G, then putting the code up there isn't going to help much. Could the executable size, even for a large CICS address space be more than a few hundred megabytes?
Tom Harper wrote: > > Of course it's not all due to a lot of executable code. It's much more > complex than that. Like most things in life, there are mixtures of causes. > > Changing CICS is going to take a lot of time and effort, and some work has > obviously already been done. I personally believe the priority of 64-bit > exploitation should have been much higher, but I'm certain the development > team has pressure on it from lots of source. > > Tom Harper > Neon Enterprise Software > Sugar Land, TX > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Binyamin Dissen > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 8:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: 64 bit mode disabled > > On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 06:01:38 -0800 Gerhard Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > > :>>This was confirmed to me by a very senior, knowledgeable person at a large > :>manufacturing company in the Midwest. Originally, they had split CICS into > :>multiple >regions for functional and operational reasons, but the number > :>grew from ten to over eight hundred because they kept running out of address > :>space for programs. > > :>I tend to remain skeptical that 800 regions is the result excessive > :>executable program code. > > I agree. CICS has to start supporting overthebar_DSA and 64 bit mode. > > -- > Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> > http://www.dissensoftware.com > > Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel -- Don Poitras - zSeries R & D - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive mailto:[email protected] (919)531-5637 Fax:677-4444 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
