On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:31:34 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote:

>We use it for datasets allocated to SYSUDUMP etc. It allocates 0 tracks until 
>the moment a dump has to be written, if any.
>
I used it in the past for passed temporary data sets to circumvent
the problem of a subsequent step's reading residual data in case
the earlier step never opened it for output.

Don't rely on this with VIO!  I did once and it exhausted page space.

>"Ron Hawkins" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I've used it for datasets that are only opened and written to on a weekly or
>> monthly basis. The secondary extents are allocated and used when anything is
>> written.

-- gil

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