>Or will z/OS dynamically decide that there's a lot of contention for that >device so a couple of aliases would be a good idea.
You can set PAV up either statically or dynamically. It depends on your WLM and HCD settings -- both have to be set to allow dynamic PAV. >Manual tuning seems the norm on mainframes as far as I can tell Hasn't been for awhile. You can do it manually, if you wish, but a lot of the manual work went out with cache, raid, WLM, etc. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

