Re: Refresh my memory: is there some sort of unstructured object that's cheap to create, and can automatically expand?

Prior to V5R3 the miximum size of a *USRQ was 32MB less some overhead for
queue definition information.  In V5R3 the limit was increased to 2GB (less
some overhead for queue definition).

Bruce Vining



                                                                           
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I've used *USRQ's in QTEMP, and the only "gotcha" I remember was that
*USRQ's are limited in size to about 24 MB.  That shouldn't normallly be
a problem, but in our application, we could exceed 24 MB on vary rare
occasions.  We had to build homemade queues out of multiple *USRSPC's
(and a *USRIDX if it required keys).

The 24 MB number seems very strange.  Usually objects are limited to
some multiple of 16 MB (the size of a segment group).  E.g. *USRSPC's
are limited to 16 MB because they are designed to consist of just one
segment group.

I never dug in deep enough to find why the 24 MB limit.

--Dave

James H H Lampert wrote:
> Dave McKenzie <davemck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Since you mentioned FIFO access, you may also be thinking of a User
>> Queue, which you can create with the QUSCRTUQ API, and access with ENQ
>> and DEQ/DEQWAIT instructions (in MI or C).
>
> Thanks. I'd forgotten the somewhat convoluted way in which *USRSPCs can
> be made self-expansile, and I've never used a *USRQ.
>
> Are there any known V5 "gotchas" regarding *USRQs in QTEMP?
>
> --
> JHHL
>
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