Hmmm. I'm not a storage administrator, but I thought that one of the reasons to allocate a data set as extended was so that the allocation *could* exceed the size of any one volume in the storage group by striping the pieces to fit on the selected volumes. No?
And, for what it's worth, SMS L2 confirmed that OA20446 should correct the problem that I described in a prior post about this. Larre ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

