It depends. In the old SLED days this could be performance crippling, especially if there was a decent paging rate(remember only one actuator/volume). With little or no paging this would not be a large problem.
Fast forward 20 years: Data is mapped transparently to many many small drives, accessed by many actuators. Again if there is no significant paging, no problem. If significant paging occurs, this MAY BE a problem, maybe not. Having said all of the above, my distinct preference would be for one page ds the size of the 3 currently occupying the volume. HTH, <snip> I noticed again today that we have 6 local page datasets on 2 volumes - each a 3390-3. I'm sure they have Pavs, or the equivelent on the dasd, but I'm just wondering if that is a good practice or not. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
