OK, I'll 'fess - the old tape subsystem is a 3490-A20 controller with 2 3490-B40 drive units. The old tape subsystem has hardware compression, as does the new. I'll check for software compression (never thought of it, actually), but I doubt that it's turned on. If it was, I'd expect CPU (on this box, which is a Uni) to be closer to 100% than 50%. Compression would also not explain why the CHPID utilization for the tapes is so high (and I think the CHPID utilization is directly related to the CPU overhead). Could I have them defined inefficiently somehow in my IOCDS? Am I doing bad things to tape performance with DFSMS DATACLAS or STORCLAS settings? I guess I won't know exactly what's wrong until it's fixed...
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