It'd be great if IBM disappeared the problem by buying one of the stop x37 companies :)
- KB ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, July 20th, 2021 at 11:17 PM, Marna WALLE <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Barbara (and others), > > Nice to see so many users of PDSEs! We do not today have the capability to > switch from PDS to PDSE in z/OSMF, but we've got it in our backlog from > requests to have it. If PDSEs users would like to help us prioritize that, > with their business impacts without this capability, please feel free to > email me ([email protected]). > > As for the sizes, for z/OSMF ServerPac we have increased the shipped free > space to 40% per data set, and with linklst data sets have zero secondary. > This is an increase over the prior free space size we used to provide, in > hopes that will help for the time being. This was done because we don't have > the ability to re-size today in z/OSMF. > > Now...I would like to look at the data set size problem in a larger context - > in order to understand where to solve this problem. More than ever, we have > been shipping Continuous Delivery PTFs. Many of these PTFs are quite large, > and occur over the life of a release. This can put quite a lot of pressure on > the size of the target and DLIB data sets being able to accommodate these > updates for every service install episode. I am wondering, if it might be of > better use to have the capability of accommodating the need for more space in > a more ongoing manner? Meaning, installing a release for a first time - even > with enlarging the data sets with some predictive percentage (50%, 100%, > 200%?) - still doesn't completely help with running out of space in some data > sets or even volumes continually, and could result in some data sets being > overly and unnecessarily large. Would it be better if z/OS itself was able to > assist better when the problem occurred in a targeted and timely fashion? Do > you feel that if z/OSMF Software Management provided this ability to one-time > increase the size of allocated target and DLIBs, that would conclusively > solve your space problems for these data sets? > > -Marna WALLE > > z/OS System Install and Upgrade > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
