I've heard that, DASD is a premium, before. See if *they* can provide him with how much the other side uses. I know, I know, it won't do any good. Been there too.
"McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 11:14 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: SMP/E question. > > For normal maintenance or most product orders, you really don't need > much DASD on z/OS, so why go through all that every time? Even > a large product like WebSphere isn't that big. I can see > "playing games" > for a z/OS Serverpac perhaps, but that should be the exception. > Heck, I would think pointing SMPNTS to /tmp would be plenty of space > most of the time. > > 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. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
