if you give cylinder(1,1)how many cylinders it will be allocate?

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if you give cylinder(1,1)how many cylinders it will be allocate?..

Answer / binesh

Maximum of 16 cylinders

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if you give cylinder(1,1)how many cylinders it will be allocate?..

Answer / nag(igate)

this is VSAM question.
the maximum extents to secondary is depend on the files
used:
For sequential: 15
for VSAM : 123

in this case the answer is : 1+1*123=124 cylinders

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if you give cylinder(1,1)how many cylinders it will be allocate?..

Answer / nagaraj ramamoorthy

it depends based on the size of the file.

when the dataset is created, 1 cylinder(primary quantity)
will be allocated. When the primary quantity is utilised
completely then the secondary quantity will be extended 1
cylinder. likewise it will extend 16 secondary extends for
seq files..

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