How to modify existing PDS to add members

gopinathmk · New User Joined: 17 Nov 2006 Posts: 15

I have a PDS which has 20 Members and now if iam trying to add member to it its showing limit exceeded so how to alter existing pds attributes in tso so that i can have more members in it

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:54 pm

easiest way, especially since it is small

ISPF Option 3.2 define new pds with larger allocation and more directory blocks (figure 4 members per dir block)
ISPF Option 3.3 Move all pds members from old to new
ISPF Option 3.2 Delete old pds
ISPF Option 3.2 Rename new pds to name of old (and now) deleted pds

gopinathmk · New User Joined: 17 Nov 2006 Posts: 15

Thanks Dick Brenholtz

But is there anyway in TSO to change attributes of Existing PDS? If yes please let me know.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:02 pm

at the command line: TSO HELP

Robert Sample · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:36 pm

It largely depends on what you need to change -- and the tools available at your shop. If your PDS ran out of directory space, there's a couple of programs on the CBT tape to fix this but using IBM utilities you have to create a new PDS, copy everything over, delete the old, and rename the new to the old name.

Bill Dennis · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:27 am

Creating your PDS as a PDSE means it can expand directory blocks automatically. Allocate as TYPE=LIBRARY in ISPF 3.2.