Extended GDG Utilization and Vantage

Products

• Vantage Storage Resource Manager

Issue/Introduction

z/OS V2R2 introduces a new extended format for generation data groups (GDG's). Extended format GDGs can contain up to 999 generation data sets (GDS's). The previous GDS limit was 255 GDS's per GDG. New GDG's can be defined with this new extended format. For existing GDG's, the previous GDS limit still applies. We are going to utilize GDG Extention and would like to know if CA Vantage is affect by any chance, any report, any impact to the product etc?

Environment

Release:
Component: VANT

Resolution

There aren't any known issues with using extended GDG's and Vantage.