Len,
A few questions if I may,
1. Any changes to your SMS or HSM environments? such as changes to Mgmt classes
or HSM parameters?
Cols 20 and 21 on the ISMF Management class list will give you last
modified date/time.
Did you stop running Expirebv?
Any change to the BCDS VSAM parameters? Did someone decide to get rid of
Freespace? Check the archives for an extended discussion of Freespace as it
pertains to HSM CDSs.
2. How large is your BCDS? I too am at a dying shop and mine is 3000 cyls on 2
volumes.
3. Do you track CPU activity? Has there been an increase? At a former shop we
too were getting off the mainframe. Management was so convinced of their own
propaganda that they outsourced the Tech Support staff. Within a year they
upgraded their CPU as I predicted they would. It was nice to be right even if I
was elsewhere.
Barring any changes, an increase in BCDS activity to me means an increase in
file activity.
The Listcat information will only be correct immediately after re-cycling HSM.
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Subject: HSM BCDS filling weekly
We have started getting the ARC0911E BCDS INDEX DATA 90% FULL messages
nearly weekly in the past month. We used to go 6-9 months and it would
be the MCDS about as often as the BCDS that reached it's threshold
first. We reorg all 3 CDS datasets each whenever one reaches the limit.
We're supposed to be going off the mainframe, so nobody is paying it
much attention, since nothing much ever breaks. The listcat looks OK,
but it guess it can't really be trusted. Last time I added about 10%
more space, but I'm suspecting that CI/CA splits may be the cause.
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