Paging space or memory? VIO can go to Central Storage - if you have some. I suspect you don't. :-(
Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: [email protected] Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker Podcast Series (With Marna Walle): https://developer.ibm.com/tv/category/mpt/ From: John McKown <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 06/05/2016 18:05 Subject: Re: Using TYPE=MEMORY (or VIO?) Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > After stating flatly that we do not support VIO, I ran a test and learned > otherwise. For sure we do not support the esoteric name 'VIO'. In my > previous shop IIRC it was implemented as 'SYSVIO'. I don't know why the > name change, but I would guess it's to avoid canned jobs from gobbling up > paging space, although nothing would prevent someone from changing 'VIO' to > a supported name. > We avoid gobbling up page space by having the ACS routines allow something with UNIT=VIO to actually be VIO only if the &MAXSIZE is not too large. But we're a small shop & shrinking. Most people here just use UNIT=SYSDA and we set the ACS routines up to "do the right thing" based on the data set criteria. It's easier on users who just don't want to be bothered. > > I see this in my test job, which seems to indicate that the data set > really went to VIO: > > IGD101I SMS ALLOCATED TO DDNAME (ALLOCVIO) > DSN (SYS16127.T095147.RA000.ALLOCVIO.R0108161 ) > STORCLAS (STANDARD) MGMTCLAS ( ) DATACLAS (STANDARD) > VOL SER NOS= VIO > > > > . > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-302-7535 Office > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 9:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: (External):Re: Using TYPE=MEMORY (or VIO?) > > On 2016-05-06, at 09:35, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > > > > ... , be aware that some customers (like us) did away with VIO a long > time ago. > > > Did they tend to preserve their VIO esoteric name? > > Could you even count on the same esoteric name's existing even in all > shops supporting VIO? > > I sometimes distribute JCL using a JCL symbol for VIO. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- The unfacts, did we have them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
