If you allocate a new data set for a course, you must change the starting point that education services uses when searching the education services data sets. When searching for a course, education services searches through the education data sets sequentially in ascending order, based on the low-level qualifier. The low-level qualifier for education services data sets is DISKnn, where nn is a number lower than 69. The variable DISKNO on panel ICQSIECB contains the lowest number (the nn part of the low-level qualifier) currently in use in an education services data set name.

When you allocate a new education services data set, set the number in the low-level qualifier to one less than the lowest number currently in use. After you allocate the data set, change the value of DISKNO to the number of the low-level qualifier for the new data set.

Figure 1 shows an example of adding a new education services data set. Assuming that the lowest number in a low-level qualifier for an existing education services data set is 67, the name of the new data set is ICQ.CBT.DISK66. You must set DISKNO to 66, so that education services starts searching for a course in the new data set.

Figure 1. Example of adding a new education services data set