On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Joel C. Ewing <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I always tried to come up with a "worst-case" VTOC size requirement for each
> DASD size and have a single initialization job that could be used in all
> cases.  It makes life so much simpler and you don't have to worry about
> things later if you decide to use the same volume for smaller data sets, or
> users circumvent your well-planned SMS strategies by allocating many "large"
> datasets with RLSE that end up small.
> --
> Joel C. Ewing,    Bentonville, AR       [email protected]
Our site uses 74 tracks for the VTOCIX and 600 tracks for the VTOC for a Mod 9.
We have one storage group that is almost all 1 track datasets and a
few times it started failing with no DSCBs left in the VTOC.
-- 
Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA
Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?

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