There's no such thing as forever-good values. No one knows what new-function enhancements will flow down the pipeline during a z/OS release. Here's the best you can do:
1. Configure your environment to ease the task of dataset enlargement, e.g. unique HLQ for SMPE target datasets. 2. Move datasets off the sysres to xxxCAT or xxxDLB if they are not needed at execution time. 3. Acquire/master tools like the PDS command that facilitate non-disruptive expansion. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 9:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Library out of space issue while APPLY RSU [email protected] (Thomas Conley) wrote: > On 7/22/2015 11:10 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: <snip> >> Next, always over allocate your libraries to handle future >> maintenance. If you use IBM's allocation from Server pac - they are >> always too small (in my opinion) Yeah, we can't win there. Make them big enough for installing lots service and people complain about the space they need. Make them as small as practical so people don't need as much disk space, and people complain that they run out of space installing service. We try to manage the algebraic sum to minimize the noise (grin). > I would recommend FIXPDS RESET, from the PDS package, file 182 on your > cbttape dial, www.cbttape.org. It zeroes out the directory and makes > it look like an empty PDS. > So does IDCAMS DELETE these days (I forget when we added this). Both likely use STOW INIT. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
