I'm confused. Isn't 4,000 cylinders only 60,000 tracks which is less than 65,535 tracks.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Adams, Tracy > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 9:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Allocations greater than 65535 tracks > > I have a dd statement that bombs when I try to allocate a 4000 cyl temp > dataset saying it can't statisfy the allocation because I have exceeded > the 65535 track limit. The perticular utility appears to be an internal > sort and wont allocate any second extents. Any ideas? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
