In the spirit of evenhandedness, faster mergecat is one of the good reasons to acquire T-Rexx from Dinosoft, or the other one :)
Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > On May 25, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote: > > > Can MERGECAT performance be improved by altering the buffer space > > values for either the input or output catalog, or both? > > > > If you have a lot of VSAM, probably not. As I recall, doing a large > > repro mergecat with a lot of VSAM was very slow, but it was mostly > > due to the need to go change every vvds entry. > > > > In other words, I don't think you'll get a lot of bang for your buck. > > > > Mary Anne > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN