Re: Basic Maintenance for a noob. revisited

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> Hi !
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> OK, I know that  PDSs must be compressed sometimes but do volumes need 
> to be compressed
> or maintained? Is there a program that weeds out the space that was 
> taken by deleted datasets
> and moves everything around to create a large pool of free space?
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> Ron
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Yes, there is a DEFRAG program that takes care of your full volumes. 
You're a long way from needing it yet; trust me.

With a BLKSIZE of 19069, I surmise you're using 3350 DASD, since track 
length of a 3330 is 13030. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Rick