Joe, You're saying that you did get output of 00000001 7FFFFF88 00001000 00000001 7FFFFFF88 00000500 within the returned data from the VSMLIST invocation you had shown?
I can't think of a way that that would be OK. Unless I'm forgetting something, it would be APARable and I'd encourage you to explore that direction. Regarding the high bit, it's documented. Specifically, "Format of Allocated Block Descriptor" with https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=area-allocated-storage-information<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=area-allocated-storage-informationI> You're treading dangerously, again, in the waters of providing incomplete information. You didn't provide complete information about your VSMLIST output, you didn't show how you had invoked VSMLOC and with what values when you said it didn't work, and now, with "FF7A5000", you show just the single address. Your thought about what that is is likely correct, but don't make us guess (the folks kindly helping out on IBM-Main, whether IBMers, customers, or ISVs have real work to do too). I choose not to participate in such a game. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
