It's not just VSAM. SMS datasets use the VVDS, as well. - Ted MacNEIL [email protected] Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
-----Original Message----- From: Doug Fuerst <[email protected]> Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 18:25:43 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Implicit VVDS creation You have that many VSAM datsets on a volume? 10 tracks holds a fair amount of data for a VVDS. Doug Doug Fuerst BK Associates 718.921.2620 917.572.7364 [email protected] ------ Original Message ------ From: "David G. Schlecht" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: 2/6/2014 12:55:12 PM Subject: Re: Implicit VVDS creation >Hold the presses! The documents for v1r13 say the VVDSSIZE defaults to >TRKS(10 10). Holy cow, that's a whole lot less than 10 cylinders. > >One would think that at 10 tracks, the VVDS would run out of space (and >extents) quite frequently but I don't see this being a frequent topic >on IBM-MAIN. > > > snip>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
