Ted, Where did you find these rather odd rules? I've only worked on MVS since MVS/XA and I've never seen or observed any behaviour that came close to resembling this - SMS and non-SMS.
Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL > Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2006 8:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: z/OS 1.6 DASD Allocation using Esoterics > > >Allocating this kind of datasets uses hardly any rules that I recall, > requested space availability of course > > Pre-SMS: > The volume with the lowest activity count since the last IPL. > > Under SMS: > The lowest address in the storage group. > > At least, these were the rules when we implemented SMS aeons ago. > > . > -teD > > Marching to the beat of a different flute > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
