On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:39:26 +0200, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indeed, if you have a lot of SMF data (btw: how much SMF >do you have ? Just curious),
I am not going to try and figure it out with 25 production / development LPARs (sandbox LPARs just dumps to DASD GDGs and we keep about 30 with no archiving). Suffices to say it's a very big number. I think most of the SMF configurations have entire 3390-3 or 9 volumes dedicated with a varying number of MANx data sets (3-5) defined and they can fill one up every 5 minutes. You can do the math. Some LPARs do dump to a PS-E (compact) DASD data set in order to keep up (see other thread on SMF logger). Which proves... one size does not fit all, even in our shop. But mostly it's because there is a mixture of environments from consolidations over the years, so different procedures in different sysplexes. > then it sounds reasonable to dump it to >virtual (!) tape directly. In case of temporary problems you have >another SYS1.MANx, in case of longer outages you can lose some data or >quickly change offload job. > Exactly. I think the horse is dead.... :-) 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 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
