You should have a separate workload for the BPX... stuff (that will get FTP running better). The transfers (unless they are huge) should have a pretty good velocity, and there should be two periods. The first can be pretty high (I think 70 for your settings now for BPX processes) and the second can drop down to 20 or so after a few seconds. Plus you need to have one for your FTP server (FTP*) that can should probably be somewhere in the middle, (but higher than TSO). In most cases, almost everything that BPX spaces do is more important than standard TSO users, especially since some of them are TSO users doing some OMVS stuff.
What is probably happening is that your FTP's are starting, but then they get penalized to the point where they can no longer meet the FTP timeouts and TCPIP timeouts which are outside the LPAR and not anywhere that you can adjust them when you get busy. As you know, when you reduce the system, it becomes a balancing act. The pipe that you have to service everything is now a bit narrower, so you have to penalize someone to keep the important stuff (like Adabas and com-plete and Connx) happy. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
