I'm sorry - I should have said "is there any reasonable circumstance under which the allocation will succeed but the allocation will NOT be roughly 104 tracks primary?"
My allocation is succeeding - the program is failing on an SB37-04. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Track capacity? On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:42:10 -0700, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >.. is there any reasonable circumstance under which MVS will NOT allocate >roughly 104 tracks primary? Is the zero BLKSIZE fouling me up somehow? > Yes i guess : if you can't allocate it in less than five extents on the first volume . ( of course if you use space constraint relief what i say is not true ) Bruno ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

