> We have a long running subsystem that recently experienced a failure
> due to bad return code from ALESERV ADD.   The subsystem creates and
> deletes dataspaces throughout the day as normal processing, so over 
> time apparently the access list filled and no more free entries were
> available.  The vendor is adding code to capture info at the time of
> failure (they weren't doing it before), but I'd like to be able to 
> test or display the contents/status of the access list to get a feel
> if we are approaching another failure.  It doesn't look like the 
> ALESERV macro has any facilities to query the number of access list 
> entries in use.  ARCHECK under IPCS doesn't seem to do what I want 
> either.  Does anyone know of any way to get information about task's
> access list status?

  Was it the task's DU-AL that got full?  Or was it actually 
the address space's PASN-AL?

  If it was actually the PASN-AL, you may want to make sure
that your vendor is aware of the recent changes made for
APAR OA45768, with additional discussion in Info APAR
II14766. 


Jim Mulder   z/OS System Test   IBM Corp.  Poughkeepsie,  NY

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