What do you do if you do not want to keep all the space allocated to a dataset ?

JOB CONTROLL LANGUAGE (JCL) Interview Questions

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What do you do if you do not want to keep all the space allocated to a dataset ?

Specify the parameter RLSE ( release ) in the SPACE e.g. SPACE = (CYL, (50,50), RLSE )

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