On Mon, 1 May 2006 08:45:46 -0500 "Chase, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>The following question was posed in our shop recently: :>"How many jobs can access a DISK DSN with a DISP=SHR before any :>performance degradation occurs due to access contention? :>"Meaning, We have 1 dataset sitting on disk, we have 35 jobs that need :>to access this one dataset, how many jobs can run at one time accessing :>this one dataset before the access creates contention and stops jobs :>from running?" :>All of the access would be read-only, and AFAIK the dataset is non-VSAM. I would not expect any difference than accessing different datasets on the same volume. In fact, this should be faster as the cache will probably be able to provide the data. -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
