diff --git a/c/datasetService.c b/c/datasetService.c
index 3aabb11c9..8e25702a5 100644
--- a/c/datasetService.c
+++ b/c/datasetService.c
@@ -108,6 +108,15 @@ static int serveDatasetContents(HttpService *service, HttpResponse *response){
     updateDataset(response, filename, TRUE);
 
   }
+  else if (!strcmp(request->method, methodPUT)){
+    char *l1 = stringListPrint(request->parsedFile, 1, 1, "/", 0);
+    char *percentDecoded = cleanURLParamValue(response->slh, l1);
+    char *filenamep1 = stringConcatenate(response->slh, "//'", percentDecoded);
+    char *filename = stringConcatenate(response->slh, filenamep1, "'");
+    zowelog(NULL, LOG_COMP_ID_MVD_SERVER, ZOWE_LOG_DEBUG, "Allocating dataset: %s\n", filename);
+    fflush(stdout);
+    newDataset(response, filename, TRUE);
+  }
   else if (!strcmp(request->method, methodDELETE)) {
     char *l1 = stringListPrint(request->parsedFile, 1, 1, "/", 0);
     char *percentDecoded = cleanURLParamValue(response->slh, l1);