On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:13:07 -0800, Raymond Noal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Juan, > >To allocate a 10,000 cylinder data set for SMF use, the data set has to >be SMS managed and you will need to use DATACLASS and STORAGECLASS >parameters in your DEFINE CLUSTER control cards for IDCAMS. The >DATACLASS you use must specify the extended format option as either >preferred and/or required. The largest data set you can allocate without >using the extended format options is around 4300 cylinders. > Unless something has changed that isn't documented, extended format is not an option for SMF. "Note: SMF does not support extended-addressability VSAM data sets. Thus, the largest SMF data set cannot be larger than 4 gigabytes. For example, you must limit the number of cylinders you request to a maximum of 5800 for a data set on a 3390 device type." (from z/OS 1.7 SMF manual) http://tinyurl.com/faxn4 Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
