Date:         Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:10:17 -0800
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From:         sasguy2004@YAHOO.COM
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Subject:      Getting "Out of memory" error in Clist upon loading Format table.
Comments: To: sas-l@uga.edu
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SAS/L:

We are having difficulty with a CLIST running on an (OS/390) ZOS MVS
Mainframe, ARC level2 64 bit CPU.

Basically we have a clist for the user to enter a 7 byte System ID, the
clist then calls a format table. It appears that the clist loads the
whole table as 32.2M is used and it appears SAS uses 7M.

Our options member for MEMSIZE is set to 39M:

OPTIONS ('NONEWS NONOTES NOFMTERR NOSOURCE NOSOURCE2 NODATE
           CAPS FMTSEARCH=(FORMATS.FORMATS) MEMSIZE=39M      ')

When we changed memsize=39 to memsize=40 we received the following
error when attempting to invoke the CLIST:

Requested MEMSIZE=41943040 exceeded available REGION=41025536
MEMSIZE reset to 40501248.

Is there a way to load the format table without maxing out the memory?


Thanks for your time,

David Collins