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[ravikumar_sri2001]

Hi Gurus,

A program doing GETMAIN(without SHARED option) for a linkage section field. Program is storing the GETMAIN storage address in COMMAREA. The program is not doing FREEEMAIN for that storage. At the end of the task the GETMAINed storage will be released by CICS as per the manual.

When the transaction invoked again, can i access the previosly GETMAINed storage using the pointer stored in commarea ?.

Thanks,
Ravikumar.

[kolusu]

ravikumar_sri2001,

The storage that a task gets is available until it is released with a FREEMAIN command. For an area obtained without the SHARED option, only the task that acquired the storage may release it, and at task end CICS automatically releases such storage not already released. Note that any storage acquired with the SHARED option is accessible by all tasks, including those that are running with transaction isolation.

A SHARED area, on the other hand, is not released at task end and remains until explicitly freed; any task may issue the FREEMAIN. This means that you can use SHARED storage in task-to-task communication.

You canNOT, however, use the storage obtained as a TIOA for subsequent terminal operations, because this could cause storage violations.

Hope this helps..

Cheers

Kolusu
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[ravikumar_sri2001]

Thanks much Kolusu.

Thanks,
Ravikumar.