On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 08:50:25 -0500, McKown, John wrote:

>What is needed is for IBM to write a "zfsresize" command. This command would 
>reorganize the internals of a zfs, compacting the used portions towards the 
>"front" of the dataset, adjusting the internal pointers, and marking some 
>portion (based on the user's input) as "unusable". Once the UNIX people have 
>written this code, the DFSMS people will need to write code which allows the 
>"excess" space in a VSAM LDS file to be released. Or is this functionality 
>already in SMS. I have a vague memory. Like so many of my memories.
> 
You neglected to say that this all must be done nondisruptively, while
the filesystem may be in use and files may be open for update.

-- gil

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