What do you do if you do not want to keep all the space allocated to a dataset?

What do you do if you do not want to keep all the space
allocated to a dataset?

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What do you do if you do not want to keep all the space allocated to a dataset?..

Answer / mkaushik

We will use RLSE parameter.

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What do you do if you do not want to keep all the space allocated to a dataset?..

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Specify the parameter RLSE ( release ) in the SPACE e.g.
SPACE=(CYL,(50,5,RLSE)

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