A reason I did not mention PDSEs is that you cannot delete a PDSE that was in the IPL-time LNKLST regardless of whether it is no longer in any active LNKLST set. PDSEs do have extents (to my way of thinking) but for LNKLST purposes (DEB) they count only as one so the problem of expanding into a new extent does not exist for them. But it is quite possible that the problem of needing to free up now-unused space does exist.
>And I think "system" means "all systems in a Sysplex". Not really true. The operations done on the data set are system-specific. You might have to do them on all systems in the sysplex that are sharing the data set. But releasing an allocation on "system A" has no bearing on the allocation that "system B" might have. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
