>Something that would look at CI/CA splits, total extents, excps vs reads/writes inserts.
Not to rain on your parade, but none of the above are major issues regarding performance, these days. With modern DASD, FICON (especially newer FICON), cache, buffering, etc., these are not problems. Look at your 'slow' VSAM batch jobs (for your definition of 'slow'), and determine what their issues are. Or, if it's online, problem transactions. Or, other 'slow' non-VSAM batch jobs. Rather than stating that VSAM is a problem, go the extra mile and find out what your 'true' performance/throughput issues are. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
