ESP2720E UNABLE TO ALLOCATE errors during dynamic allocations

Products

• ESP Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

ESP528E ERROR OCCURRED PROCESSING EVENT <event name>

ESP2720E UNABLE TO ALLOCATE <jcl name>, S99 ERROR CODE X'0238', INFO CODE X'0000'

ESP1800I ABOVE ERROR OCCURRED ON FOLLOWING STATEMENT

ESP1007I JCLLIB '<jcl name>'

Cause

If there are thousands of jobs in the CSF queue, the dataset will be allocated that many times - filling up the table.

Resolution

Add the ESP REXX function "FREEX" in the APPL and recycle ESP to free the allocated datasets.