It is a way to use real storage to avoid I/O for applications that don't do that on their own. So, yes, as long as you have enough real storage so that VIO use does not result in paging. If the VIO data is getting paged out, you would usually be better off using ordinary I/O than paging I/O. Paging I/O uses a 4K block size, which is inefficient for FICON, unless you are using zHPF. z/OS has not enhanced its paging I/O to use zHPF. With non-paging I/O, you can use a larger block size, and many of the access methods use zHPF.
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