Keith,
Consolidating always brings to mind performance related questions. Need to
look at data usage patters of what is being consolidated (is it mainly system /
database / etc. related?). Be careful combining too much active data on single
/ few volumes ("spindles":-) and ensure active data is spread across volumes as
much as possible. You can gather such data up via RMF (or equivalent) volume
activity reports. Of course if this is solid state DASD some of these
considerations are little bit "old hat", but still worth considering. Other
important factor from performance perspective is size of DS8K cache and
Read/Write bias / ratio of data access - is it 75% Read vs. 25% writes or ???.
If mainly Read only accesses and solid state and ample cache then you should be
just fine. Other consideration of course is critical duplexed related data
which you always want to split across multiple volumes (such as JES checkpoint,
page datasets, primary / backup couple datasets, etc.)...
Steve Estle
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