McKown, John wrote:
Except, at times, for space management issues. We often have very fragmented volumes and a person cannot get a large primary allocation. We now preach "use a smaller primary and secondary allocation, and let dynamic volume count save you from an x37 abend."
Doesn't SMS Space Constraint Relief help here? It has worked pretty well for us -- especially cool when it uses more than five extents to satisfy the primary allocation.
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