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System Completion Code SE37

What does System Completion Code SE37 mean in Assembly / HLASM?

An output dataset needed to extend onto another volume but no further candidate volume was available — either the allocation was restricted to a single volume, the SMS storage pool has no free space left, or repeated small secondary allocations already consumed all 16 extents across the volumes the dataset was allowed to span.

System Completion Code SE37z/OS · HLASM

Condition

An output dataset needed to extend onto another volume but no further candidate volume was available — either the allocation was restricted to a single volume, the SMS storage pool has no free space left, or repeated small secondary allocations already consumed all 16 extents across the volumes the dataset was allowed to span.

Fix

Allow more candidate volumes or a larger VOLCOUNT/UNIT count in the JCL, increase the secondary allocation so fewer and larger extents are taken instead of many small ones, and confirm with storage management whether the SMS storage group actually has free space.

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