There is an old error in GRS, which has still not been resolved (even at z/OS 2.3) that causes this problem, when you receive it, it's all timing related, and the slower the LPAR (i.e. the more you cap it) the more likely you are to receive it. If you take a SA dump, it's easy to see that there is a huge getmain that GRS does that uses up the space. Strangely enough, the problem is with the above the line ESQA, not the below the line SQA.
z/OS doesn't allocate a lot of SQA and ESQA at IPL time, and you have not yet gotten to the point in your IPL where your SQA and EQSA parms kick in. Luckily, the fix is simple. Insert the following into your LOADxx member for that (and probably all of your LPARs) INITSQA 0000K 0008M This will add just 8 meg to the ESQA that is allocated at IPL. You can actually get by with just an extra 8K, but it's ESQA, so extra won't kill you. This amount is added to the default amount at IPL, (which you cannot otherwise affect), and is added to your total SQA and ESQA for the life of the IPL. You can add SQA as well if you want, but it does affect the total below the line, so be sure to deduct it from your SQA parmlib amount later if you do use the first parm above (I have it set to zero). Any way, there are some PTF's that change the order of things occurring that have caused this VERY old problem to resurface. They have not been resolved as of RSU 1801 for z/OS 2.3 or z/OS 2.2, so plan on keeping the INITSQA parm for quite a while yet. If you want more information, please feel free to call me or send me a note and I'll talk this over with you. I spent 3 days going through stand alone dumps to find the problem a couple months ago. We thought we had a hardware issue, because we had not changed the service level at all, just the hardware patches were changed. In the end, it's just the single getmain from GRS. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
