NUMVOLS

The NUMVOLS keyword specifies the number of volumes that are defined to a VSAM cluster.

Syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagramNUMVOLS=( nn,op)

NUMVOLS=(nn,op)

Where:

nn is an integer (1 - 59) that specifies the number of volumes.

Note: The volume count is determined by the number of unique, specific, volsers for the data and index components (duplicate volsers are counted once). When non-specific volser entries denoted by an asterisk are specified, the larger of the number of non-specific volsers that are specified for the data and index components are added to the number of unique specific volsers, if any.

Default

None.

Environments

ALLOCATE, EXTEND, UNALLOCATE.

IDCAMS equivalent

DEFINE CLUSTER(VOLUMES(VOL001 VOL002) ...)
DEFINE CLUSTER(VOLUMES(* * * *) ...)

Data class equivalent

Volume Count

Related Enhanced Allocation Management function

SET_NUMVOLS

Example

NUMVOLS=5