This chapter describes how to allocate the BDT and TQI data sets needed during BDT operation. The data sets are:

• The BDT initialization stream data set
• The BDT work queue data set
• The system generic master job definition (GMJD) library data set (file-to-file customers only)
• ISPF data sets (file-to-file customers only)
• The TQI checkpoint data set
• The TQI bit-map data set
• Message data sets.