FOR a GDG, the book by 'SABA ZAMEER' says 'We can NOT ALTER the

FOR a GDG, the book by 'SABA ZAMEER' says 'We can NOT ALTER
the LIMIT parameter after it is defined'. (p-211).
But many persons have written that it can be changed, which
one is true ?

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FOR a GDG, the book by 'SABA ZAMEER' says 'We can NOT ALTER the LIMIT parameter afte..

Answer / rup

In generation program you would have given limit earlier as
limit(5) , You can change the limit by this way.
//SYSIN DD *
ALTER ****.***.** LIMIT(6) NOEMPTY SCRATCH
/*Now limit changes to 6
//

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FOR a GDG, the book by 'SABA ZAMEER' says 'We can NOT ALTER the LIMIT parameter afte..

Answer / albert

It can be changed through JCL using ALTER statement

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FOR a GDG, the book by 'SABA ZAMEER' says 'We can NOT ALTER the LIMIT parameter afte..

Answer / vinay sonar

I have personally tried using ALTER command
I dont remember exact syntax

//sysin dd*
alter pmap391.a1.gdg,limit=(5)
/*

It is possible

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FOR a GDG, the book by 'SABA ZAMEER' says 'We can NOT ALTER the LIMIT parameter afte..

Answer / vira2z

plz tell me how it can change, give the istructions to cange

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