On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:07:37 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> No, they burn cycles whenever a dump is triggered by a MAN dataset >> filling up. Yes, in some small shops / environments you can have >> enough of them and only dump them all once a day. That doesn't >> work in larger environments. > >I have never seen SMF Dumps 'burn' cycles. >Make them low importance and have enough that they don't fill up. So I should run them as discretionary? Okay... they use cycles, not "burn" cycles... whatever. See my pervious response to R.S. about "having enough". BTW, it's not that I've never handled SMF the way you and R.S. suggest. I've done it both ways. I can just say in _my_ experience, one way doesn't work well in a large shop. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
