Hey Jesse,
I have the same setup but I have my OVERFLOW volumes set as QUINEW so they are 
only used if the original SG can't hold all of the data. Hope this helps.

Wayne Schroeder
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Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 7:43 PM
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Subject: SMS STORGRP question

'Forever' we have directed DUMPSRV SVC dumps via ACS routine to STORGRP 
'SVCDUMP', which is defined to a small set of volumes called SVCDxx. We had a 
(major) problem a while back when DB2/CICS wanted to take a humongous dump that 
exceeded the available capacity of of the SVCDxx volumes. So we *added* group 
'OVERFLOW' to the ACS routine expecting this much larger group to accommodate 
dumps that SVCDUMP could not handle. Much to our chagrin, from that moment 
forward, *all* SVCDUMPs went directly to OVERFLOW without even trying to find 
space in group SVCDUMP. We have an RYO mechanism to manage dumps created on 
volume SVCDxx, so dumps created elsewhere are a problem we can live with on 
occasion but not regularly.

I know there are various ways to resolve to this problem, but I want to know 
why SMS is behaving this way and whether there is a purely SMS solution: try 
SVCDUMP first; if no room, then try OVERFLOW. In that order.

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