CA IDMS COBOL Multiple copies loaded in pool

Products

• IDMS
• IDMS - Database
• IDMS - ADS

Issue/Introduction

Some CA IDMS COBOL programs have multiple copies loaded concurrently in the same program pool .

What can cause this?

DCMT D PROGRAM shows:

Program Name nnnnnnnn Ddname CDMSLIB 
Type PROGRAM Type LOADLIB 
Language COBOL Dictname 
Size (bytes) 00021608 Dictnode 
ISA size 00000000 Database key NOT IN DICT 
Status ENABLED AND INSRV Storage Prot NO 
Dynamic NOT ALLOWED Residence IN POOL, MULTIPLE COPIES 
Reusable YES Threading CONCURRENT 
Reentrant FULLY REENTRANT Overlayable YES 
Tasks use ct 000 New Copy ENABLED 
Times called 00001062 Times loaded 000004 
PGM chk thrh 005 Pgm check ct 000 
Dump thrh 000 Dump ct 000 
Amode 31 Rmode ANY 
PDE address 17C68C60 MPmode ANY 
Savearea YES Mult Enclave ON 

Address Debug In Pool Copy 
30A4A000 NO YES TEMP 
30A54000 NO YES TEMP 
30B5E000 NO YES TEMP 
30B64000 NO YES TEMP 

Environment

z/OS and z/VSE Operating Systems

Resolution

This can happen when CA IDMS COBOL programs are defined as QUASIREENTRANT. This is the default for COBOL but should only used for old VS COBOL programs which are not LE compliant. This causes a separate copy of the program to be loaded for each task when running multitasking.

For COBOL LE compliant programs they should be defined as REENTRANT so only one copy of the program will be loaded. 

Change the programs definition in the SYSGEN to be defined as REENTRANT.