What is the extent information? What does the index component look like?
There is no guarantee that the primary allocation (25 cylinders) will be I a single extent. The primary field is usually the size of the first extent. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: [email protected] All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of esmie moo > Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 9:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: ALLOCATION OF USERCAT MYSTERY - URGENT > > Good Morning Gentle Readers, > > I am trying to understand why the space allocation was changed when I > allocated the USERCAT. The USERCAT is SMS managed and resided on vol > PLN902 before I reallocated on PLN906. In the CLUSTER definition I > had the following : > > DEFINE - > USERCATALOG - > (NAME (SYS1.ICFCAT.UCATPLN) - > CYL(25,5) - > VOLUME(PLN906) - > STORAGECLASS(GUASPACE) - > ICFCATALOG - > STRNO(3) - > FREESPACE(20 20) - > NOIMBED - > LOCK - > SHAREOPTIONS(3 4)) - > DATA( - > CONTROLINTERVALSIZE(4096)) > /* > > The catalog was successfully allocated: > IDC0510I CATALOG ALLOCATION STATUS FOR VOLUME PLN906 IS 0 > IDC0512I NAME GENERATED-(I) SYS1.ICFCAT.UCATPLN.CATINDEX > IDC0181I STORAGECLASS USED IS GUASPACE > IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 0 > > However it shows : > ALLOCATION > > SPACE-TYPE------CYLINDER HI-A-RBA-------- > 15482880 > SPACE-PRI-------------21 HI-U-RBA--------- > 2949120 > SPACE-SEC-------------- > 5 > VOLUME > > VOLSER------------PLN906 PHYREC-SIZE---------4096 HI-A-RBA--- > ---- > > Why would the system override my allocation of 25 cylinders primary? > Is there a reason to be concerned? How would I prevent this from > happening again? > > Please forgive me for asking all these questions. I am just anxious if > there would be a fall out or severe repercussions. > > Thanks in advance > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! > > http://www.flickr.com/gift/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
