Kevin, When you ran your DFDSS benchmark, did you use OPT(4) and the ADMIN parameters? These should reduce your I/O considerably.
________________________________ From: Fletcher, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 3/3/2008 12:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CA-FAVER to DFDSS conversion <snip? I'm curious - did you do any performance comparisons? dd keller </snip> Mr. Keller, Yep we did benchmarks and as you will expect DFDSS was not even close to Faver, but the volume of our usage did not cost justify it's continued usage. Thanks, Fletch Sr. Systems Analyst Conseco, LLC The first step towards failure is trying - Homer Simpson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

