Larre:

Are you currently running 2.2 on all your production machines?

Ed
> On Apr 24, 2017, at 4:57 AM, Larre Shiller 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have been involved in a number of offline discussions as well as multiple 
> IBM PMRs and problem records with our DASD hardware vendor concerning EOS and 
> although this is potentially a most useful function, the overhead involved is 
> not zero--there will always be *some* amount of overhead involved in 
> re-writing every bit of a data set, no matter how much improvement IBM has 
> made to the function at the OS level (such as the 95+% reduction in EXCP's 
> since the initial implementation of EOS).  During our testing, we find that 
> it takes an additional 1 hour of processing time for every 500G of data in 
> order to use EOS.  If you have a tight batch window or any kind of 
> time-sensitive processing, you should make sure that you can afford to use 
> EOS before simply activating it for every data set in your enterprise.  Since 
> this is a security-related function, I will not comment publicly 
> if/when/where we do or do not use it, but I will simply recommend that you 
> perform a benchmark evaluation of the overhead involved on your hardware 
> before activating EOS.
> 
> Larre Shiller
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