I don't remember the details or when, but I do remember threads here claiming that PDSE space reclaim did not occur while the dataset was open.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Peter Hunkeler > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2018 10:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: AW: Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST > > >Are you sure space is reclaimed for deleted members if the data set is open > by LNKLST? > > > Interesting question. Easy to test for someone with a sandbox system (I > don't have any such to play with). Well, one could test with STEPLIB but that > does not tell anything, if there was special code in PDSE processing to > recognize the data set is in linklist usage (I doubt there is, but who > knows?) I > would assume that the space is reclaimed not matter whether the data set is > open or not. > > > -- > Peter Hunkeler > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
