Didn't the transition to Super PAVs (HYPERPAV=XPAV) eliminate the need for UCB 
relief (I/Os quing in the z/OS I/O subsystem)?

Even so, if your new storage group does not have 59 volumes, only ARCxxxI 
(infomational messages should be generated; the allocation should still 
proceed, no?

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Jousma, David
Sent: Friday, April 4, 2025 9:21 AM
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Subject: Migrating Storage pools to EAV

So, we are finally biting the bullet and making 1TB EAV volumes our standard 
for UCB relief, etc.    One "habit" my Storage team over the years had done to 
mask poor dataset allocations was to make the mainly used DATACLAS 
multi-volume, with a max of 59 volumes.    It was before my time, but I'm 99% 
sure that was done to avoid x37 abends for max extents.    Now that we are 
going to EAV's, we'll be clearing off the mod-54's and DISNEW them.   And with 
a 20-1 reduction in physical volumes, there will likely be pools that had say 
100 volumes, that could end up with just 5 EAV's.

I'm not a storage guy by craft, so am wondering if there is any magic dust to 
help with this other than making the owners of the poorly allocated files make 
adjustments to their allocations?

Dave Jousma
Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering.

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