Agree Barbara, if it was up to my boss, I'd still be @ -2 applying maint once a year, the mentality is, "well were are running fine, no problems", luckily we have an association that requires us to be at a certain level every other year, getting a little off track, but again, I'm with Barbara, Its become the norm, and I've have been very proficient in fixing allocation issues during apply for "mostly" linklisted datasets.
And to Peters point, I'm glad XCFAS hold the ENQ, it protects us from ourselves and others, I have a process in place to reallocate my target libraries as needed without unallocating from linklist and shutting down LLA Carmen Vitullo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Nitz" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 12:46:35 AM Subject: Re: SYS1.MIGLIB and LNKLST >Not to hijack the thread, but... I thought ServerPac already >automatically adds 20% (25?) free space, but I could be wrong. In any >case, how much free space should be allocated by ServerPac? I saw 50% >mentioned. Is that enough? Should it be the same for every data set, >or just the three you mention? Is it possible to get any kind of >consensus on this topic? I am with Carmen on this one. Per company policy I apply ptfs twice a year. Every time at least 3 libraries die B37 or D37, and I just hate the wasted time to enlarge them. All of this after I already enlarged a lot of the original serverpac definitions - and definitely *all* linklist data sets - by 50%, including directory space. Yes, they're inactive, so easily renamed, but in addition I have to put up with incomplete SMS-Definitions, on reallocation SMS forces them to be SMS-managed, so I have to delete, reallocate with HLQ sys1, then copy, then rename the sys1 to what it was before. Or wait at least a day to get the SMS defs done correctly. Yes, I am running with compress. In my opinion every linklist data set should have 50% more primary (no secondary) space and 50% more directory space to begin with. Preferably *every* data set should have the 50% spare, especially given the wasted space for all the zFSs (think font libraries!) Or there should be a ++hold telling you to increase the size *before* you do the actual apply, especially for the obscure, seldom touched small libraries. Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
