Without further details it seems the CA Reclaim feature in z/OS V1.12 might give some relief
Avoiding data fragmentation and planned outages for data reorganizations - With the new CA (Control Area) Reclaim capability, applications that use VSAM key-sequenced data sets (KSDSs) can benefit from improved performance, minimized space utilization, and improved application availability though the avoidance of planned outages that used to be required to defragment and reorganize this data. http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an &appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS210-008 Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO System z HW/SW/Automation Team Leader mailto:[email protected] (office) 301.986.3574 (cell) 301.996.1318 "Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..." -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darth Keller Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 3:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Prevent ICF catalog out-of-space problems >>------------------------------------<snip>--------------------------- >>How does a catalog get to be any where near 4 Gig (or even 2)? >>---------------------------------<unsnip>----------------------------- - >>Haven't you ever heard the term "putting all your eggs into one basket" >>?? 'Nuf said? We deal with a product that has it's own catalog & the only thing in the catalog is it's alias. The names it generates causes 'creep' in the catalog & it will eventually hit the 4GB limit if not re-org'ed periodically. ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
