Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
This is why you see in Program Directories the required space for each
dataset/OMVS files needed for each product you ordered.
Let's just be clear about what those space numbers represent.
They are:
- a fixed percentage larger (10 or 15%, I forget right now) than the
amount of space consumed by each data set at a particular point in time
- are measured at the specified block sizes when the FMIDs represented
by that program directory were submitted to software manufacturing and
never updated
- provide information for only that product and no others that might
share the data set.
So if PTFs cause the space required to grow by more than the fixed
percentage, or you use different block sizes than we specify (which is
not to your advantage in general), or fail to add the space required by
all products sharing a data set together, you will be in x37 City before
you know it.
ServerPac production is smart enough to adjust space on the fly, BTW, so
the free space allocated by default stays at a fixed percentage even as
PTFs consume more space in the data sets for the products included. For
CBPDO, you get to guess yourself.
--
John Eells
IBM Poughkeepsie
[email protected]
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