Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-29 Thread J Ellis
also, as some very wise people on this list and other lists/papers have pointed out Know thy data some of our worst dasd response time issues were eliminated by simply looking at the logical volume placement and the data sets there on. Moving some DB2 indexes into different array groups and/or off

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-29 Thread Ron Hawkins
that lead to the elongated seek affect that you describe. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of J Ellis Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Any ROT for DASD Response time

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-29 Thread Joel Wolpert
Planning consultant WEBSITE: www.perfconsultant.com - Original Message - From: Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:39 PM Subject: Any ROT for DASD Response time We are running an EMC DMX4500

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-29 Thread Joel Wolpert
ron.hawkins1...@sbcglobal.net Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:59 AM Subject: Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time J, This is what Pat describes as SIBLING PEND and it is easy to spot the symptom because it shows up as Disconnect Time. I sure

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-29 Thread Ron Hawkins
Of Joel Wolpert Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 2:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Any ROT for DASD Response time Disconnect time can also show up as synchronous remote copy (SRDF). If the links are saturated it will elongate the DISC time and therefore the RT. Joel

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-28 Thread Ron Hawkins
Response time See imbedded. Hal -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time Hal, I should have

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-27 Thread Hal Merritt
See imbedded. Hal -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time Hal, I should have been clear. The statement I

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-22 Thread Hal Merritt
to consider. But that does not address the OP's question. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time Hal

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-22 Thread Dick de Groot
Ask the DBA's why they say thats DFHSM causing the delay, are there recalls necessary for DB2 work ? What kind of delays do you see on the dasd volumes. What is causing the main delay according to RMF monitor 3 ? 2010/7/21 Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com We are running an EMC DMX4500

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-22 Thread Dick de Groot
ROT is not important now, the main problem you are having a performance problem and not meeting your SLA's. Important is to identify what is causing that problem. 2010/7/21 Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com We are running an EMC DMX4500 shared with the open system side. MVS has 9TB and

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-22 Thread Ron Hawkins
up as a delay unless there is contention. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 7:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Any ROT for DASD Response time Short

Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
We are running an EMC DMX4500 shared with the open system side. MVS has 9TB and the open side has 500TB. So they win. We have points in time where our production application (DB2 Stored Procedures with Native SQL) has slow responses. The DBAs are using RMF and TMON (DB2 and MVS) to isolate

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-21 Thread Hal Merritt
and good luck. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Any ROT for DASD Response time We are running an EMC DMX4500 shared with the open

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-21 Thread Staller, Allan
Your DBA's are not even close. Unless the DB2 address spaces are waiting for DFHSM services(unlikely), faggedabouditt! Your normal tuning should insulate DB2 from any vagaries of DFHSM processing. IMO the most likely cause (if there is DASD interference) would be in the cache. I don't know if

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-21 Thread Ulrich Krueger
09:39 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Any ROT for DASD Response time We are running an EMC DMX4500 shared with the open system side. MVS has 9TB and the open side has 500TB. So they win. We have points in time where our production application (DB2 Stored Procedures with Native SQL) has slow

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-21 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:36:38 -0500, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbm1.com wrote: I don't know if EMC has the ability to fence the cache for workload separation (open systems vs. z/OS). That would be a no. We now live happily together here again on a VMAX. Once upon a time in Symmetrix land

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-21 Thread Staller, Allan
YMMV! snip That would be a no. We now live happily together here again on a VMAX. Once upon a time in Symmetrix land we tried having both on the same box, but the technology just didn't live up to it's billing. We went to seperate boxes until March of this year, where management saw it fit

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
In this context a ROT for any delay would be zero, IMHO. That, of course, is totally unrealistic. 2-5ms/IO is reasonable, IMO. - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! Kimota! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-21 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 7/21/2010 3:02:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time, eamacn...@yahoo.ca writes: That, of course, is totally unrealistic. 2-5ms/IO is reasonable, IMO. The folks over at _www.perfassoc.com_ (http://www.perfassoc.com) do this for a living. They got White Papers on different

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
The folks over at _www.perfassoc.com_ (http://www.perfassoc.com) do this for a living. Yes, I know that. But, I was responding to the poster who said delay had to be ZERO. IMPOSSIBLE! - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! Kimota!

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-21 Thread Ron Hawkins
Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Any ROT for DASD Response time Point is that you are not meeting your SLA goals. If DASD response time is an issue, then it can be described

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-21 Thread Ron Hawkins
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 8:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Any ROT for DASD Response time In a message dated 7/21/2010 3:02:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time, eamacn...@yahoo.ca writes: That, of course