A PDSE / HFS can have 123 extents. In the SMS world, extended format sequential datasets have the same limitation. VSAMs are limited to 255 extents per component/stripe in a non-SMS environment.
Vriendelijke Groeten / Cordialement / Best Regards / Med Vänliga Hälsningar Kevin Somers System Engineering Mainframe Volvo IT Belgium Dept 36300, Mainframe Services Eksaardserijweg 188 B-9041 Gent, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)9 255 62 60 / Cell phone: +32 (0)478 84 39 41 E-mail: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of larry macioce Sent: woensdag 8 april 2009 16:04 To: [email protected] Subject: Secondary space allocation I was doing some reading,which is scary in it's own right, and came across something that I need to verify.I always thought when you gave a secondary space allocation that it went to 16 extents(if needed), but I am reading that it now goes to 123. Is this true?? We are a non sms shop. One more question, does the system check for all secondary allocations or will it work 1 by 1 as needed? thanks Larry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
