On Jul 6, 2005, at 9:32 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
I never even envisioned automated tools looking at VSAM stats. My
ASSumption when reading Mark's posts was that he was referring to
individual
programmers looking at individual VSAM file stats for guidance. My
experience is obviously severely limited in this regard, as in my
varied
positions over the years the usual case was that all of the
applications'
datasets (including VSAM) were our (the application programmers')
responsibility to feed and care for, and we never had thousands to
contend
with.
As for my ASSumption on criticality, the normal performance variations
(once
a good initial design and shakeout was done) for an individual (set of)
application file(s) were never that critical unless severe volume
increases
occurred. A parochial point of view, I must freely admit.
I stand humbly corrected. My vision is obviously way too narrow.
Peter
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Peter,
Somewhere in the back of my paged out (permanently?) memory is there
used to be (or there is one currently) a utility that went through the
catalog and looked for vsam datasets and listed any that according to
its recommendation ones that needed
re-orging. My mind just can't remember the name. It may have built
idcams control cards as well.
Can anyone come up with the name of the product?
Ed
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