Hi Lionel, Can you provide any more detail on how you are invoking "cp" ?
- With cp, there won't be any way to avoid opening the PDSE for each member, but you might get some improvement by allocating a DD to the PDSE and then passing //DD(member) to cp, so as to avoid allocation each time. If you do this, then you will also know for sure if you are using local spawn (_BPX_SHAREAS=YES), since otherwise the DD won't be visible if a new AS was forked. - The other issue would be the cost of spawning a Unix process for each member, even if local spawned. I haven't tested this, but you might write a shell script that is passed the DD as arg and member names as lines to stdin. Then the script could do the cp for each member. The hope is that since cp is also a shell "built-in" you might avoid spawning processes for each one. - the "best" performance possible would be writing your own BPAM code that also does the Unix fileio. Assembler is fine, but I would use C/++ for everything except the low level BPAM I/O routines, since I would probably use buffered filestreams for the Unix files. FWIW: It's a pity that the IBM C library doesn't have any support for BLDL/NOTE/POINT processing of PDS/Es -- see my old RFE and vote if you agree: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=80811 On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 5:30 AM Lionel B Dyck <[email protected]> wrote: > " What's on the non-OMVS side? a PDS(E)? Multiple PS data sets?" > > On the z/OS side is a PDS(E). > > Thanks > > > Lionel B. Dyck <sdg>< > Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com > > "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what > you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 9:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Improve OMVS cp performance? > > On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:34:59 -0500, Lionel B Dyck wrote: > > >Any suggestions on how to speed up cp copying multiple file to and from > z/OS? > > > >I gave SHAREAS=YES. Anything else? Can I control buffers or ? > > > What's on the non-OMVS side? a PDS(E)? Multiple PS data sets? > > I might suggest as an extreme measure Rexx under ISPF using ADDRESS > SYSCALL I/O for OMVS and LM services for Classic. > SYSCALL READFILE/WRITEFILE are available for text files only. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
