Yeah, I was on a CICS 1.4 system written in macro level COBOL, storage violations were a dine a dozen everyday. Before started identifying them and fixing them.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 17, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Barry Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: > Memory Leaks, Core Cancer, Storage Creep, etc., are, collectively, > PROGRAMMER ERRORS. > > I can remember our 1976 Thursday afternoon SYSPROG meetings at Sun Oil in > Dallas to review the slow growth in the size of CSA after each weekend's > IPL, > to see if we thought we would have to IPL Thursday night or last thru Friday > prime time, all because LOGREC issued a GETMAIN for 1F6x bytes for each > record, > but only freed 1F0x bytes. > > Barry > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Scott Ford > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 4:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat! > > I remember VTAM doing that, serious gobble ...Steve..and of course CICS > > > Scott J Ford > Software Engineer > http://www.identityforge.com/ > > > > ________________________________ > From: Steve Conway <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 2:44 PM > Subject: Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat! > > CICS and VTAM were the kings of chewing up storage... > > Steven F. Conway, CISSP > LA Systems > z/OS Systems Support > Phone: 703.295.1926 > [email protected] > > > > From: Scott Ford <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 08/17/2012 02:43 PM > Subject: Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat! > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > > > Yep, zMan and Steve I remember storage creep, was it CICS ? > > Scott ford > http://www.identityforge.com/ > > On Aug 17, 2012, at 2:38 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Steve Conway > <[email protected] >>> wrote: >> >>> I think I remember hearing "storage creep". >>> >> >> Yeah, we had some of those. Their offices were a mess and they didn't > bathe >> often enough. >> >> Oh, wait, you're talking software...yeah, "core cancer" or "storage > creep" >> were what I was weaned on. >> -- >> zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send >> email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
