z/OS MVS Programming: Extended Addressability Guide
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Limitations of subspaces

z/OS MVS Programming: Extended Addressability Guide
SA23-1394-00

Subspaces have the following limitations:
  • They do not provide protection against deliberate attempts to overwrite code.
  • To ensure that subspace storage is protected, the system abnormally ends a program that:
    • Attempts to reference storage to which it does not have addressability
    • Provides incorrect information on the IARSUBSP macro.

    Therefore, you might need to code additional recovery routines for your programs.

  • An unauthorized application program running in a subspace cannot add more storage to the subspace. If an application program requires more subspace storage, the server program must obtain subspace-eligible storage for the application. This is explained in detail in Requesting additional storage while running in a subspace.

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