Patent ID: 9268679
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product to allocate space in volumes to data sets in a storage system, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein that executes to perform operations, the operations comprising: maintaining an assignment of a plurality of volumes to a data set, wherein the volumes are configured in the storage system; receiving a request to extend the data set; assigning an alias volume name to the data set for a previously assigned volume to the data set to extend the data set in response to one of the previously assigned volumes having available space to extend the data set; and assigning a base volume name to the data set for a volume not assigned to the data set in response to one of the previously assigned volumes to the data set not having available space to extend the data set.