"cold adult beverage". Hum, 18 year old iced tea? Or perhaps you meant Macallan 18. Very generous of you: $139.99 for 750 ml at Amazon. Of course, 18 is in the U.S. More adult would be 21, but that's $235.99 for 750 ml.
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HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Brown, Larry - > RD, St. Louis, MO > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:49 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Problem Going to VSAM from IAM > > Wow, the programmer dropped the bufsp parm, and his run time > actually was better than before with IAM - under an hour. > Again, many thanks to all who replied. If any of you are > ever in St. Louis, let me know, and I'll buy you a cold adult > beverage. > > Larry Brown > Rural Development > U.S. Department of Agriculture > 4300 Goodfellow Blvd. > St. Louis, MO 63120 > Phone: 314.457.4939 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David > W. (NIH/CIT) [C] > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:42 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Problem Going to VSAM from IAM > > Larry, > > Your dd statement specifies space for 100 data buffers (4096 > x 100 =409600) but you then specify bufnd=181, which is one > cyl for a 4096 CI size, plus Bufni=9. I would lose the bufsp > parameter and let VSAM allocate buffers according to the > Bufnd and Bufni parameters. > > You might also code Rmode31=buff to allocate the buffers > above the line. You didn't mention whether you were paging > during the job execution. > > Regards, > Dave O'Brien > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brown, Larry - RD, St. Louis, MO > [mailto:larry.bro...@stl.usda.gov] > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:22 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Problem Going to VSAM from IAM > > Hello, we have a job that was previously using Innovation's > IAM file access method. The file is over 6 million records. > The job runs twice yearly and usually takes an hour or less > to complete. The product was removed to save on SW costs, > and the file was converted to VSAM. The programmer did not > make any other changes, and the job now takes over 10 hours > to complete. I know the IAM product is supposed to improve > performance, but can't imagine it making the difference > between 1 and 14 hours run time. I'm suspecting there may > have been some JCL changes to blksize, buffers, and things > like that required, but the programmer is unaware of any of > those changes he should have made. The job is only reading > the file. Does anybody have any ideas on where to start > looking for other changes that should have been made after > converting from IAM to VSAM? The programmer is reviewing his > source code. Our performance support has not suggested > anything. Innovation claims %50-%80 reduction in processing > time, so maybe it is just a matter of IAM vs VSAM.(?) > > Here are the JCL and VSAM definitions: > > //MISC DD DSN=ASLP00.FT.MISC,DISP=SHR, > // AMP='BUFSP=409600,BUFND=181,BUFNI=9' > > Cluster: 'ASLP00.FT.MISC' > + multi-volume > Data: 'ASLP00.FT.MISC.DATA' > Data Volume: PEST06 + > Index: 'ASLP00.FT.MISC.INDEX' > Index Volume: PEST06 + > Data Component Information: Current > Allocation Options: > Device type: 3390 > Load option: SPEED > Organization: KSDS EXT-ADDR > Write check: NO > KSDS key length: 27 > Buffer space: 10752 > KSDS key location: 1 > Erase on delete: NO > Average record size: 80 > Imbedded index: NO > Maximum record size: 4084 > Replicated index: NO > Allocated Space: Unit Primary Secondary > Reuse option: YES > Data: CYLINDERS 2000 2000 > Share option: 2-3 > Index: CYLINDERS 300 30 > Spanned records: NO > Dataset Date Information: Key > ranges present: NO > CLUSTER - ASLP00.FT.MISC > Storage: PESTBU > > Data: X4GB > > Management: MGTPSF > > Owner ID: > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - - - - - - - - - > Current Allocations in Tracks: Current Utilization > in Tracks: > Allocated space: 240000 Used data > space: 198827 ( 83 %) > Allocated extents: 2 Used > extents: 2 ( 100 %) > Allocation type: UNIQUE Prime > records: 6,770,095 > KSDS Index Allocation in Tracks: Deleted > records: 3134 > Allocated space: 4500 Inserted > records: 8700 > Number of records: 14795 Updated > records: 706460 > - - - - - - - - - - - Current Reorganization Information - - > - - - - - - - - - > Data - Control Area Information: Control Interval > Information: > Physical record size: 4096 > Size-data: 4096 Index: 2560 > > Thanks, > > Larry Brown > > > > > > > > > This electronic message contains information generated by the > USDA solely for the intended recipients. 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