On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 08:36:23 +0000, Sean Gleann wrote:
>
>Up until reading the doc regarding ALLOCxx, I was unaware that "...Primary
>space may be acquired in up to 5 extents" and that was the root cause of
>the problem report that I was given. That doc and the further testing I've
>done has allowed me to understand the numbers seen in the resulting ISPF
>'I' command output, and to communicate that information to the person who
>reported the 'problem' (I requested 9000 tracks! Why did I get only 7200?
>Why did my job go to a B37 after that??)
>  
I have routinely done Info on one data set then changed the DSN and
Allocated, intending to create one very similar.  I have been dismayed
when space is different from what I requested on the original data set.

I consider this a bug.

-- gil

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