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This Week's iTip!

POWER Tips - Changing the Size of a Dynamic Partition

Update Dynamic Class Table with new data

Default dynamic class table is DTR$DYNC.Z or if you use your own dynamic class table DTR$DYNx.Z (where x is your Class suffix.)

You can use Maintain Dynamic Partitions panel of the IUI, or you can manually punch the table from IJSYSRS.SYSLIB, update it, and manually re-catalog it.  The first approach (IUI Panel) is highly recommended.

Storage Allocation is specified in Mbytes (note that this value can not exceed the value you have specified in the IPL command SYS PASIZE.)

Size can be specified in either Mbytes or Kbytes.

Dynamic space GETVIS is specified in Kbytes.

You can have different JCL profiles for different dynamic classes (depending, of course, on what you want each of these classes to do.)

POWER spooled readers, printers, punches are all site specific.

Re-Load updated table:

pload dync

   or

pload dync,id=x

Assuming that you have virtual storage available for your new allocations, the next time job is scheduled in this dynamic class, it will be allocated to new size.

It is highly recommended that you ensure that your VSIZE is large enough to accommodate more, or larger, dynamic partitions, BEFORE you start adding or expanding them. 

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