That sounds like GTFPARS. It used to read a GTF trace and generate IEHLIST for the volumes it found. It used to generate a kewl seek histogram, and a dataset seek activity report you could use to tune the location of your busiest datasets.
I used to tune SYSRES dataset positions using this, but the first 3880-23 invalidated the report as it was showing datasets with the highest cache hit rates also had the highest seek counts - considered it broken once we started buying all 3990-3. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 1:22 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Implicit VVDS creation > > Could have been. That was a batch tool only that used GTF like trace data > IIRC, and may have even read GTF input. There were others, including > Astex, which CA acquired through Legent. Like most of the Legent products, > it was very good. But I really liked FASTDASD's ability to create > FDR Compaktor control statements to order data sets close to the VTOC > (to carry over to another thread on this topic). I used to run it on the > live sysres and use Compaktor to combine extents, compress and re-order > data sets on my target sysres after applying maintenance. > Oh... those were the days. :-) > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS > ITIL v3 Foundation Certified > mailto:m...@mzelden.com > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html > Systems Programming expert at > http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ > > > > On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:10:06 +0000, Linda Mooney > <linda.lst...@comcast.net> wrote: > > >Sounds like CA's FastDASD. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Ed Finnell" <efinnel...@aol.com> > >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > >Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 10:27:44 AM > >Subject: Re: Implicit VVDS creation > > > >There was a DASD Seek Analysis tool. Don't know if it was Candle or > >somebody else. Our tuning folks used the heck out of it for Storage > volumes back > >then. When we got out E's ISPF didn't support them! > > > > > >In a message dated 2/10/2014 8:25:51 A.M. Central Standard Time, > >rpomm...@sfgmembers.com writes: > > > >VTOC, VTOCIX, and VVDS all sitting nicely right next to each other. Some > >at the beginning of the volume, some 1/3 of the way through depending > on > >the type of data that was going to reside on the volume. > > > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
