Two million open data sets
This chapter describes how z/OS V2R2 now allows up to 2,000,000 data sets to be open at a time by address spaces while reducing the allocation time for data sets.
3.1 Current open data set limits
Application and data growth often translates into a larger and increased number of DB2 tables to handle the amount of data that is created. In z/OS V2R1, up to 200,000 linear data sets can be kept open at a time by DB2. Some large environments might require an increase in this limit to continue processing increasing workloads. ...