Thanks, Gary. I will try REGION=64M and get back to you. David

Gary Ross wrote: > sasguy2004@yahoo.com wrote: > > > > 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 > > My mvs days are getting fuzzier and fuzzier, but I think you maxed out > your region space. At our shop, I default region to REGION=64M. Try that > and then I think the increased memsize should work as well.