On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 12:47 -0600, David Speake wrote: > Use BLKSIZE=0 and overallocate a bit with RLSE and let > the system take care of it.
Yes, System Determined Blocksize is definitely the way to go. > Another thought is to use extended format QSAM files with software > compression Nota bene: you should test compression in your environment first to see if it buys you anything. Different installations will get different results. It didn't help us. > and striping via DFSMS. I like striping for large sequential datasets (FSVO "large"). It has *substantially* reduced runtimes for some of our jobs. Note that having multivolume datasets does complicate dataset recovery. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
