How to Undo an Extend Space against an Area in IDMS

[Paul Schulz]

How do I remove an EXTEND SPACE from my dictionary (which in this case, I haven't completed doing because I have not generated the DMCL and put the new DMCL load module into use.)?

I have run an ALTER AREA  ...  EXTEND SPACE and my SYSTEM dictionary now shows that definition against the area.
Now if I generate, punch, and link edit the DMCL that definition will be in the DMCL load module.

I want to remove it so that the definition doesn't propagate to the DMCL load module. (

My purpose for removing the extend space is that I need to make a change to my journals to increase their sizes and don't want to have to deal with the EXTEND SPACE against the 'other' area at the same time.

I am going to try to show a pair of screen shots of what it looks like now and what I want it to look like. The left is what it looks like now. Is it as simple as doing an ALTER AREA with the definition I want (on the right)?

Paul Schulz
Nationwide

[Laura Rochon]

Hi Paul,

I've had to do this before.?? If I remember correctly, I dropped the area
and re-added it with original definition.

Good luck,
Laura Rochon
Hera Evolution

[JOHAN NEVENS]

Hi Paul,

This is how we probably would handle such case:

ALTER PHYSICAL AREA FCSP0100.FCS-COMMER-AREA
EXCLUDE FILE FCS-COMMER-FILE
EXCLUDE FILE FCS-COMMER2-FILE
;
ALTER PHYSICAL AREA FCSP0100.FCS-COMMER-AREA
PRIMARY SPACE 1760 PAGES FROM PAGE 1690001
MAXIMUM SPACE 1760 PAGES
PAGE SIZE 3860 CHARACTERS
WITHIN FILE FCS-COMMER-FILE
FROM 1 FOR ALL BLOCKS
;
DROP FILE FCSP0100.FCS-COMMER2-FILE
;

That should give the desired result.

Kind regards,
Johan Nevens
Colruyt Group