David, It's not so much a matter of conservatism but plain common sense and good practice. As a teacher I always used to say "Defaults always work - but they don't always work well." This was an attempt to get students interested in avoiding ridiculously small data unit sizes and acknowledgement counts imposed by default because one device type, long obsolete, required these "conservative" values. NCP was a case in point which struggled, largely in vain, to throw off "conservative" defaults where there was any hint they were unnecessary.
Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 13 June, 2006 4:32 PM Subject: Re: DFSMSdss Performance Question > As it was explained to me years ago, IBM is a very conservative company > and the defaults tend to ensure that the smallest configuration will be > able to run. <snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
