On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:12:07 -0800, Raymond Noal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear List-ers, > >If you wanted to allocate a multi-volume HFS file, does it have to be SMS managed? Trying to allocate a HFS file from TSO 3.2 panel, you are restricted to 4363 cylinders. Is there an 'extended format' for HFS files as well? > I'm not sure if it is spelled out clearly in the DFSMS Using Data Sets manual, but AFAIK an HFS does have to be SMS managed to be multi-volume. I think the last time I tried using one that wasn't SMS controlled was when I had to expand our SMPNTS HFS from 1 3390-9 to be multiple volumes a couple of years ago (z/OS 1.4 & z/OS DFSMS 1.3). There has been no changes in this area that I'm aware of since then. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
