SQTY_INDEX

(VSAM data sets only.) The SQTY_INDEX keyword specifies the secondary quantity value that is assigned to the index component of a VSAM data set.

Syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagramSQTY_INDEX=( nnnnnnnn,op)

SQTY_INDEX=(nnnnnnnn,op)

Where:

nnnnnnnn is an integer (0 - 16777215) that specifies the requested secondary allocation quantity for the index component in the requested allocation units.

Default

None.

Environments

ALLOCATE, EXTEND, and UNALLOCATE.

JCL equivalent

DEFINE CL ... INDEX(TRACKS(1) ...)

IDCAMS equivalent

DEFINE CLUSTER(...) INDEX(CYLINDERS(... 1) ....)
DEFINE CLUSTER(...) INDEX(TRACKS(... 1) ....)
DEFINE CLUSTER(...) INDEX(RECORDS(... 1000) ....)
DEFINE CLUSTER(...) INDEX(MEGABYTES(... 2) ....)
DEFINE CLUSTER(...) INDEX(KILOBYTES(... 2048) ...)

Related Enhanced Allocation Management function

SET_SQTY_INDEX

Example

SQTY_INDEX=1000