Since the OP's goal was to have a copy available to all address spaces, the best option is to use dynamic LPA (CSVDYLPA). There are few, if any, reasons still to use LOAD with ADDR for common storage. In neither CSVDYLPA nor LOAD with ADDR is it generally safe ever to free the storage. And LOAD with GLOBAL=YES is even worse.
Anyone want to place a bet on whether the system did or did not "give ... an erroneous length of x'4000' "? I'd place my money on "gave a correct length". Regardless, if you are doing a LOAD with ADDR you don't typically do a LOAD to get the length to obtain (or a CSVQUERY after a LOAD). That is very inefficient. You use the information in the directory entry returned by BLDL or DESERV. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
