"George Dranes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I'm just curious if there are any recommendations on data and index cisizes > for a general volcat. When we first set ours up, we used the sample job in > the IBM Magstar Tape Redbook which just takes the system defaults (in this > case on a non-sms managed volume). I did a listcat against our volcat and > the data cisize is 20480 with AVGLRECL=4086 and the index cisize is 512. > The catalog is working fine and is extremely small ~500 volsers defined. > Would it even be worth my while to mess with this?? Thanks for the help.
We recommend a 4K CISIZE for Catalogs. If you are running z/OS 1.6 you can run an EXAMINE INDEXTEST against the catalog and it will tell you what you need for an index CISIZE. Thanks, Mark Thomen Catalog/IDCAMS/VSAM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
