Ken,
According to the manual, you are correct:
£ Each PDS or PDSE must be on one direct-access volume. However, you can
concatenate multiple input data sets that are on the same or different
volumes.
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Ken wrote:
I thought a PDS could not be multivolume and therefore could not
allocate it as multivolume?
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O'Brien, David W.
Tom,
Listcat only shows 1 volume.
VOLUMES
VOLSER------------DSP148 DEVTYPE------X'3010200F'
FSEQN---------
----0
ASSOCIATIONS--------(NULL)
ATTRIBUTES
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From: Tom Marchant
On Mon, 5 May 2008 10:38:38 -0400, O'Brien, David W. wrote:
>Got the following from one of the MVS Sysprogs:
>
>"I got the following error when I tried to update the linklist on sys5
>but the
dataset doesn't look like a multi-volume dataset to me. I did a listcat
but don't see where there is a flag of multi-volume.
>
>09:22:42.90 05 00000090 CSV518I ACTIVATE FUNCTION WAS NOT
SUCCESSFUL 877
>
> 877 00000090 FOR LNKLST SET LNKLST01.
>
> 877 00000090 DATA SET
NIH.CA1PROD.R115.CAI.CAILIB
>
> 877 00000090 IS A MULTI-VOLUME DATA SET "
>
>I noticed that the Data Class for this file had the following:
>
> Space Constraint Relief . . . : YES
> Reduce Space Up To (%) . . : 50
> Dynamic Volume Count . . . : 5
>
>Could this be the problem? File has 1 extent.
Could be. IMO, LNKLST data sets should be allocated without constraint
relief so that they will not need to go to another extent.
What does LISTCAT show?
--
Tom Marchant
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