# How to create and alloc WORK FILE ?

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**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Mainframes\
**Created:** [July 21, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-create-and-alloc-work-file/60092 "2005-07-21T13:14:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-create-and-alloc-work-file/60092/1 "2005-07-21T13:14:27Z")

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My question is in topic 🙂

Thanks for help.

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**Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-create-and-alloc-work-file/60092/2 "2005-07-21T15:25:10Z")

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Which operating System ?

The usual way to allocate workfiles is thru JCL, but in Library SYSEXT you will find USR2021N (MVS) and USR2029N (BS2000) providing “dynamic allocation” interfaces.

What do you mean by “how to create” ?

WRITE WORK will “create” a work file.

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-create-and-alloc-work-file/60092/3 "2021-04-02T14:40:14Z")

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