D Syltrem, UTILITIES, Determine Global Pages and Sections Requirements  ; I have written a DCL procedure to know how much free global 8 pages/sections are required for installing a program in  shared memory.   It supports both Alpha and VAX.   F I believe it can be useful to others as it is to me from time to time.  B Maybe it could be included in the next release of the freeware CD.   Regards,   Syltrem C http://pages.infinit.net/syltrem <http://pages.infinit.net/syltrem>  (OpenVMS related web site)       Sample execution on VAX " $ @[.mis6]gbl prod_exe:pfcp0100infB %ANALYZE-I-ERRORS, IVA$EXE:[IMAGES]PFCP0100INF.EXE;72            0 errors Section  1:    41 pages  Section  2:   305 pages A IVA$EXE:[IMAGES]PFCP0100INF.EXE; requires 346 global pages in 2 =  sections! to be installed/open/share/header    Verified by:' $ install list/glo prod_exe:pfcp0100inf     DISK$DISQUE35:<IMAGES>.EXE!    PFCP0100INF;72   Open Hdr Shar             System Global Sections    DSA4:<IMAGES>PFCP0100INF.EXE0  INS$873B2E10_002(6AA6F911)              PRM SYS Pagcnt/Refcnt=3D305/0 0  INS$873B2E10_001(6AA6F911)              PRM SYS Pagcnt/Refcnt=3D41/0       Sample execution on Alpha  $ @gbl prod_exe:pfcp0100inf   A %ANALYZE-I-ERRORS, IVA$EXE_ALPHA:[IMAGES_ALPHA]PFCP0100INF.EXE;73  0 errors Section  1:   706 pages F IVA$EXE_ALPHA:[IMAGES_ALPHA]PFCP0100INF.EXE; requires 706 global pages. in 1 section to be installed/open/share/header   Result verified with: + $ install list/glo prod_exe:PFCP0100INF.EXE      DISK$DISQUE35:<IMAGES_ALPHA>.EXE#    PFCP0100INF;73   Open Hdr Shared             System Global Sections   " DSA4:<IMAGES_ALPHA>PFCP0100INF.EXE0  INS$ACB6C9B0_003(6AA84EFE)              PRM SYS Pgltcnt/Refcnt=3D706/  405    