Well manually, no.  I can think of two tools that can do it on the fly, SRS and 
STOPX37, but they also tailor the index extent size, unless it's RRDS.  A VSAM 
file is really two space allocations, one for the DATA portion and one for the 
INDEX portion.

Alter would only work if the file is unallocated... so I would do a copy, 
delete, rename process with the correct space allocation.

Mark

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Paul Schuster
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Subject: VSAM ALTER ?

Hello:

Is it possible to alter the secondary space value in a catalog entry for a VSAM 
file?  Secondary space doesn’t show up in ALTER as a valid value to change, so 
I am wondering if it is possible to just issue a hand-written SVC 26 request to 
update this field.  Effectively I want to give the illusion that a cluster (or 
data component) has a secondary value when the cluster was originally defined 
with ‘0’ secondary.

Thank you.

Paul

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