There have been a lot of good suggestions, but I have some basic questions to resolve some concerns I have.
Can you post the attributes of the file? Lrecl, blksize, primary space, secondary space, and dir blocks? Also, do you have any automation tools like OPS/MVS, Tivoli, etc??? How often is this dataset updated? 1 time per hour, 100 times per day? A compress will not free up directory blocks. It only removes the "gas" created by adding and deleting members in a file. So you need to over allocate (in my opinion) the directory blocks so you do not run out. Do you have tools like PDSMAN, PMO, Vantage, or other? Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of K Zafirop > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Watching used space of a PDS > > Hi all > > I would like to implement a utility so to watch the used directory blocks of > one of our > frequently changed PDS libraries. Do you have any idea how to automate this? > In case > of the threshold exceedance, I will submit an IEBCOPY to compress in place > the PDS. > > > Kind regards > > K. Zafiropoulos > z/Series Support Engineer > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
