Based on info from John Eells, I would say. "it depends".

Reading the info APAR II14640 (thanks for the  reference John), I find:

<quote>
Depending on the age of VSAM data sets, you may have some data
sets that are not eligible for CA RECLAIM show a value on a
listcat of CA-RECLAIM(YES). Data sets created prior to the
installation of the PTF for OA26256 on z/OS 1.10, or data sets
created on z/OS 1.9 or earlier releases may show a value of
CA-RECLAIM(YES) for ESDS, RRDS, LINEAR VRRDS data sets.
Installation of the PTFs for apar OA36052 will correct the
listcat output.
</quote>

And: 

<quote>
There is a tool available that will produce a one line listing
of data sets that are currently eligible for CA RECLAIM. While
you can run an IDCAMS LISTCAT LEVEL or LISTCAT CATALOG to get
a list of data sets, either of these will also produce a large
amount of output and also list data sets that are not eligible
for CA RECLAIM.
This tool can be downloaded from the following FTP site:
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/dfsms/
It is on this site as CARECLAM.JCL.CNTL.TRSD. It will need to
be downloaded in binary mode to a data set with the following
DCB attributes: LRECL=1024,RECFM=FB,BLKSIZE=6144,DSORG=PS .
After downloading it will need to be untersed using AMATERSE.
Note that when untersing the output data set will be a PDS, so
you need to supply directory blocks for the output data set when
untersing. A space allocation of (TRK,(1,1,6)) should be fine.
If you have questions or concerns about this tool open an ETR
to component 5695DF106.
</quote>

Of course, to be absolutely sure, you could rebuild the dataset.

<snip>
I'm not sure if I got my original question answered. We've enabled CA-Reclaim 
on the dataset, but I what I wanted to know does a repro back into the original 
dataset using the replace and reuse options, enable CA-Reclaim on all CA's, or 
do I need to reallocate the dataset?

Mark Jacobs

> Staller, Allan <mailto:[email protected]> February 12, 2015 at 
> 9:12 AM According to the fine manual, if CA-Reclaim is enabled 
> globally (in IGDSMS00), you can alter the cluster to enable 
> CA-Reclaim;
>
> From AMS Commands( Rel 2.1) SC23-6846-01:
>
> <quote>
> RECLAIMCA|NORECLAIMCA
> Specifies the CA reclaim attribute of a key-sequence data set (KSDS).
> ...remainder elided
</snip>

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