>"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. Sounds like an ideal environment Hiperbatch. It's still supported, and this sounds like the exact scenario it was created to address.
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