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Hardware Reserves for a Class of Resources

To change the way GDIF handles hardware reserves for a class of resources, you can specify a value for the RESERVES parameter on a QNAME statement. If you specify this parameter, then this value overrides the value that you specified on the RESERVES parameter on a GDIINIT statement.

To eliminate hardware reserves for a QNAME, specify RESERVES=CONVERT on that QNAME statement. This value tells GDIF to eliminate hardware reserves for that class of resources, no matter what value you specified on the GDIINIT statement. If you want to retain hardware reserves, then specify RESERVES=KEEP instead.