On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:30:23 -0500, Greg Shirey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL > >>>I definitely see a pattern forming here which worries me that there >will have to be a lot of jcl revisions to >>accomodate the mod 27s i.e. >>>adjusting primary/secondary allocations and/or volume counts. I >definitely didn't see this coming. > >>You may be able to handle in within your ACS routines, under SMS. >>That could save you some work. > >How? Allocation parameters are DATACLAS attributes which are always >overridden by JCL. (except UNIT, VOLSER, and dynamic volcount) > >Greg Shirey >Ben E. Keith Company > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- That is exactly my point. If previously a user coded per say a primary of 50 cyl and a seconary of 5 cyl with a volume count of 5, they might be able to acquire the space that step needed whereas if the volume count is dimished to 2, then the allocation is more likely to fall short of it's previous capacity which would require adjusting the allocation requests. I agree with Tom Merchant who said "Too many small storage "puddles" makes it difficult to manage. It sounds to me as if you are micro- managing your SMS." Micro managing was not my intention at all. If the DBAs request that they want their archive logs separate from their bootstraps and so on, then I am simply trying to accomodate the users requests. Plus, there is definitely a culture change when working with larger volumes such as a mod 27 because what seemed like an acceptable storage pool of 10 volumes is quickly diminished when it is reduced into 2 volumes so it may be necessary to merge some pools together. I certainly appreciate everyone's feedback which is what I was looking for because this is new territory for me. Gil. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
