I have MIDAW on. Haven't done PAV yet. It was a charge feature and we didn't 
get it, then "they" didn't tell me it when it became available when for some 
reason or other. Now, I'll probably/possibly use it on the DMX-4 we will be 
installing soon.



Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University


> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Skip Robinson
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 1:05 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Have you enabled MIDAW and zHPF? If not, why not?
> 
> I don't believe that MIDAW is a charged feature on IBM DASD. Health check
> IOS_MIDAW flags 'off' as a low exception. The other features may be a
> different matter.
> 
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> JO.Skip Robinson
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> 
> From:   Mark Zelden <[email protected]>
> To:     [email protected]
> Date:   06/22/2012 08:27 AM
> Subject:        Re: Have you enabled MIDAW and zHPF? If not, why not?
> Sent by:        IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:47:32 -0500, Thomas Conley
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >I'd like to take a private survey to determine which sites have enabled
> both MIDAW and zHPF, or if you haven't enabled either or both, why.  It's
> come to my attention that some sites may not have enabled these options.
> In the case of MIDAW, you have to take action to place MIDAW=NO into
> IECIOSxx, but for zHPF, you have to turn it on with ZHPF=YES in IECIOSxx.
> Both options can significantly lower your I/O overhead and increase
> throughput, and I haven't come up with a reason for not enabling them.
> >
> >Please respond to me privately off-list.  I will keep your information
> confidential.  I am thinking about presenting a recommedation to turn on
> both options for the Bit Bucket at SHARE in Anaheim.
> >
> 
> I think you should include HYPERPAV in that same survey.   I think the
> reason
> you will find people don't have zHPF and/or HIPERPAV active is they are
> not free HW features.  I don't know if the vendors charge for MIDAW or
> not, or if it just takes the proper HW / code levels to support it.
> 
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