Well, everything is software these days. Cylinders exist only in software any more.
So if a dataset is *eligible* to span more than one volume, you can't release unused space? Even though the dataset has never occupied more than one volume? What if it is allocated with // DD SPACE(,,RLSE) and closed by a program? Will the excess space be released? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 3:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Multiple volume dataset question > Number of volumes allocated: 3 > CCXZ08 * * >What is ISPF trying to tell me? Every single dataset is like this -- >even small ones (1 track). This means you can allocate up to three volumes, but only one is in use, now. >It's more than an academic question because ISPF will not let me do a >RLSE (F) on the larger datasets. I get the error >The data set that this command has been issued against is a multivolume data set. The command is invalid for multivolume data sets. It means what it says. You can't get there from here. PS: Not to nit-pick, but it's software, not hardware. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
