>Its interesting, because I don’t have any products that give me extra extents >except what SMS does for me space wise, and I have never increased my dataset >size allocations.
Just as a preparation for increasing allocations, here is what failed x37 in the past 8 refreshes (all on the *installation* target volume, never IPL'd from). I apply maintenance twice a year, too, and it is always upwards of 1000ptfs. SMPE was dealing with a few of those x37 doing in-flight compresses, but I had only the last refresh without having to increase sizes. #1 IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,LINKLIB,SYS1.LINKLIB IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,NUCLEUS,SYS1.NUCLEUS IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SASMMOD1,ASM.SASMMOD1 IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SCSFMOD0,CSF.SCSFMOD0 IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SCSFMOD0,CSF.SCSFMOD0 IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SGIMLMD0,GIM.SGIMLMD0 IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SGIMLMD0,GIM.SGIMLMD0 IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SCSFMOD0,CSF.SCSFMOD0 IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SCSFMOD0,CSF.SCSFMOD0 IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SGIMLMD0,GIM.SGIMLMD0 IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SCEERUN,CEE.SCEERUN #2 IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SGIMTENU,GIM.SGIMTENU IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SHASMIG,SYS1.SHASMIG IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SHASMIG,SYS1.SHASMIG IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SISFLOAD,ISF.SISFLOAD IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SHASMIG,SYS1.SHASMIG IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SHASMIG,SYS1.SHASMIG IOEZ00312I Dynamic growth of aggregate xxxxx.SIZUUSRD in progress #3 Made an error during increase of data sets, ended up restoring everything and increasing (joblogs from before restore not saved) SCBDMENU SMPSTS 16->50 trks, sec 5 SASMMOD1 50->80 trks #4 Accept of previous maintenance: IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,,ACCEPT,ABBLLIB,BBL.ABBLLIB Apply new: IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,LINKLIB,SYS1.LINKLIB IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SICELINK,SYS1.SICELINK #5 Accept of previous maintenance: IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,,ACCEPT,AGIMTENU,GIM.AGIMTENU IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,,ACCEPT,AERBPWSV,SYS1.AERBPWSV IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,,ACCEPT,AHAPINC3,HAP.AHAPINC3 IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,,ACCEPT,AGIMTENU,GIM.AGIMTENU Apply new: IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SERBPWSV,SYS1.SERBPWSV IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SEEQINST,SYS1.SEEQINST IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,MIGLIB,SYS1.MIGLIB IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SCSFMOD0,CSF.SCSFMOD0 IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SISFLOAD,ISF.SISFLOAD IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SCEERUN,CEE.SCEERUN #6 IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SERBLINK,SYS1.SERBLINK IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,CMDLIB,SYS1.CMDLIB IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,LINKLIB,SYS1.LINKLIB IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,NUCLEUS,SYS1.NUCLEUS IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SASMMOD1,ASM.SASMMOD1 #7 IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SISFTLIB,ISF.SISFTLIB IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SERBPWSV,SYS1.SERBPWSV IOEZ00312I Dynamic growth of aggregate xxxxx.SAZFAMOD in progress IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SERBLINK,SYS1.SERBLINK IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SISFLOAD,ISF.SISFLOAD IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,SCEELPA,CEE.SCEELPA #8 Accept of previous maintenance: IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,1,ACCEPT,AGIMTENU,GIM.AGIMTENU IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,1,ACCEPT,AISFTLIB,ISF.AISFTLIB IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,1,ACCEPT,AAZFAMOD,AZF.AAZFAMOD IEC032I E37-04,IFG0554P,1,ACCEPT,AHAPINC3,HAP.AHAPINC3 Apply new: IEC031I D37-04,IFG0554P,,APPLY,DGTLLIB,SYS1.DGTLLIB With z/OS 2.5, I'll probably triple allocations for those data sets during allocation. >That being said, my cloning process copies my res volume and ZFS datasets to >new volumes and resets extents to current used, which is why I never used the >software deployment and NEVER will in z/OSMF. Right now the plan is for my successor to install z/OSMF once we're on 2.5. *I* will certainly NEVER use z/OSMF to do the rollout to all the other sysplexes. Cloning is done in 4 jobs and they work and are easily controlled. Regards, Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN