On 8/22/2016 8:38 AM, Reichman Joseph wrote:
I looked in the JCL reference and DFSMS bookshelf and did not see a limit on the number of concatenated datasets
The number of data sets is not the limit. Rather, the limit is imposed by the size of the field in the DEB that records the total number of extents for an open DD.
DEBNMEXT DS BL1 NUMBER OF EXTENT DESCRIPTIONS STARTING * AT DEBBASND. ONE EXTENT PER UNIT FOR * EXTENDED FORMAT OR PDSE DATA SETS. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
