You do not need to rebuild and copy your existing datasets in order to use
Dynamic Dataset Expansion (DDX).  You can enable DDX using
ADAGER by adjusting the capacity of a dataset.  Just do a
Change Cap and answer that you want help, ADAGER will explain
how to enable DDX (I don't remember the syntax off hand).


Date sent:              Tue, 4 Jan 2000 10:46:26 +0530
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From:                   Sasidhar Atluri <[log in to unmask]>
Organization:           Wipro
Subject:                Automatic Expansion of Turbo Image Datasets.
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>      Hi All,
>
>         I have a requirement of increasing few of my critical data sets
>      automatically. There are several ways in which the data sets
> capacity
>      can be increased manually. One such way may be by using Adager. But
>
>      this way will not be of much use for me.
>
>      There is another way of doing this by building the data sets with DDX
>      option in which I can mention the maximum capacity,initial capacity
>
>      and then increment factor. In this case the problem is I need to
> build
>      all of my data sets again and copy the data back to the new ones
> which
>      are DDX on.This procedure could be time consuming and a bit risky.
>
>      So can any one of you advice me whether there is any other way I can
>      increase the capacity automatically, say if any one of the data set
>
>      which I specify reaches 80 % full then this job/utility should put
> the
>      capacity back to 50% full.
>
>         I heard that there are few utilities/commands like
>      DBGENALT,DBMGRALT thru' which the capacity management can be done
>      automatically. But none of these systems are available on my HP3K
>      machine.
>
>      Thanks a lot in advance for your suggestions,
>      Sridhar


Frank Kelly