Specifying partial release

The PARTIAL RELEASE attribute specifies whether DFSMShsm space management processing releases unused allocated space in physical sequential, partitioned, and extended format VSAM data sets. The default for PARTIAL RELEASE is NO. The other options are YES and CONDITIONAL. CONDITIONAL means to release the space only if there is a nonzero secondary allocation quantity.
Note:
  1. The CONDITIONAL option applies only to physical sequential and partitioned data sets. If specified for an extended format VSAM data set, it will be processed as if YES were specified.
  2. The PARTIAL RELEASE attribute does not apply to normal migration and recall processing.

Related reading

For more information about migration and recall space allocation, see Additional space management during migration and recall when DFSMShsm is the data mover.