Thanks to all who helped me. Thanks for spotting the problem. I added another volume to the group.
"O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the Primary allocation for the failing dataset? The volumes may be online and enabled but how much free space do they contain? and how fragmented is that space? ________________________________ From: esmie moo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 8/6/2007 11:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: SMS QUESTION :ALLOCATION HAS FAILED URGENT Hi, I am trying to allocate a dsn of 60 cylinders on a pool of 10 vols. I checked that there is lots of space availble but I keep getting the following error: DATA SET SYS2.NETVIEW.TEST NOT ALLOCATED+ IGD17273I ALLOCATION HAS FAILED FOR ALL VOLUMES SELECTED FOR DATA SET SYS2.NETVIEW.TEST IGD17277I THERE ARE (10) CANDIDATE VOLUMES OF WHICH (10) ARE ENABLED OR QUIESCE IGD17290I THERE WERE 1 CANDIDATE STORAGE GROUPS OF WHICH THE FIRST 1 WERE ELIGIBLE FOR VOLUME SELECTION. THE CANDIDATE STORAGE GROUPS WERE:SYS2PP1 IGD17279I 10 VOLUMES WERE REJECTED BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT SPACE 41A041D) The drives are online and I checked that the status for the storage groups are enabled . --------------------------------- Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------- Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

