On Mon, 19 May 2008 11:23:59 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> BTW, I don't allocate SMPWKDIR. I just have a large SMPNTS. And I >> know mainframe dasd is not cheap compared to the sata drive in your >> workstation, but in the total scheme of your mainframe dasd, how >> much of a pain would it be to get a little more to support >> this the way >> it was meant to work? >> >> Mark > >Well, I blew an entire 3390-3 trying to do a receive. Around here, DASD >is again considered a "premium" resource. The new CIO firmly believes >that we are just wasting space left and right and wants __strong__ >justification for DASD. To the point were we may start getting Sx37 >abends again due to lack of space. I know, that what I can do? I've >suffered the pain, he has not. > What were you trying to receive? ALL maintenance, recommended, HIPERs, a product? How far behind current are you if it is regular maintenance? And if it is regular maintenance, perhaps you can split it up by doing recommended first or just HIPERs etc. Then if you keep more current it doesn't have to be so big. Of course the problem will then move to your SMPPTS if you never apply / accept and clean up anything. 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
