IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> wrote on 10/01/2007 07:35:16 PM:
> Our shop uses SMS for allocation and StopX37, but we are looking at replacing > StopX37 with CA-Allocate. Does anyone have any experience coverting from > StopX37 to CA-Allocate or converting off of CA-Allocate. I'd appreciate any > feedback I can get. Pros/Cons, why you converted off of it or to it etc.... > We converted many years ago before SMS provided Storage Constraint Relief. We use CA-Vantage along with CA-Disk so CA-Allocate was a better fit. If you are not dependent on notcat 2 processing, you should try SCR first mostly due to the fact you already have it. If you need to support notcat 2, CA has done alot of work with Does It Fit (DIF) processing which I have not had time to really test. If you are doing primary space (checking) reduction, you need to check the number of volumes in your pools. CA-Allocate does an obtain on every volume in the pool to check space availability for each allocation while StopX37 is entered only if you can an abend. I had a few SMS pools with several hundred volumes and primary space checking would take quite a bit of time for each allocation (DD). Regards, John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
