On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:51:32 -0500, Tom Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:30:44 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > >>There's just a tad bit of virtual storage up there to use. By default it >>is 510T. ;-) But for a vendor to use it, they must ensure a minimum >>OS level of z/OS 1.5. Since 1.6 EOS is September, developing something >>new that uses shared storage above the bar shouldn't be an issue. >> >>Using my RXSTOR64 exec, I still can't spot any users on z/OS 1.8. > > >Ah... then you are not using RLS (SMSVSAM) are you? > >We are and at z/OS 1.8 with RLSABOVETHEBARMAXPOOLSIZE(ALL,2700) >specified we are seeing about 2700M above the bar shared (when things get >busy). > We are in a couple of sysplexes, but 1.8 is still being rolled out and we haven't exploited that change yet (skipped 1.7 where this was introduced). But I guess you are confirming my code works. Thanks. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ 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

