Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't error 24 just "I ran out of space", like an 
x37 abend for a sequential file that ran out of extents due to too-small 
primary/secondary allocations?

How much primary and secondary space was specified for the data component of 
the (4, 4) copy?  How much space does the data component of the (4,3) version 
use today?  Are the index component allocations the same in both versions?

Peter

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Steff Gladstone
Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 12:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: VSAM write error: file status key = 24

Greetings,

After REPRO-ing a VSAM KSDS file defined with shareoptions (4,3) to a file 
defined with shareoptions (4,4), we started receiving the following error on a 
write attempt (COBOL program):

Status key=24
Meaning: An attempt was made to write beyond the externally defined boundaries 
of a relative or indexed file.


The (4,4) file is identical to the (4,3) file in all respects except for the 
shareoptions.  The error never occurs for the (4,3) file and occurs 
intermittently for the (4,4) file.  Can anyone suggest what the problem might 
be?

Thanks,
Steff Gladstone
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