Dorothy & Karl - thank you very much for your help just an fyi on our problem
we tried pre-allocation - didn't work we tried the VOLCOUNT(N(2)) & it split the file onto 2 dasd packs the file was an esds file - which I failed to identify before - sorry 'bout that -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wong, Dorothy Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: sms & dfdss restore Try the DFDSS keywords MAKEMULTI and VOLCOUNT Here is an example /SYSIN DD * COPY DATASET(INCLUDE(XNTD.CVDS.T000825.D020709, - XNTD.CVDS.T171659.D020704, - XNTD.CVDS.T005345.D020709, - XNTD.CVDR.T090530.D020507, - XNTD.CVDS.T040414.D020704)) - MAKEMULTI VOLCOUNT(*) DELETE PURGE - OUTDYNAM((SMSA203),(SMS204),(SMS205),(SMS206),(SMS207),(SMS208)) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marg Gozdowski Sent: May 16, 2005 7:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: sms & dfdss restore I have a large file on one dasd pack that was dumped using dfdss without sms on one lpar. I would like to restore this file on two dasd packs using dfdss & sms on another lpar. How can I do this? I keep getting error msg: igd17288i about how the file could not be allocated normally & is not eligible for space constraint relief (multi volume) because it is a single volume data set. sms is not set up with dataclas or mgmtclas - only storclas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

