I am in the process of testing moving our user catalogs to SMS so that we can 
use RLS in ZOs V2.2

It all works just fine and looks like a very good performance benefit.. 
Historically we have a volume for each user catalog. I guess this goes back to 
the days of reserves, etc.

All catalog type reserves are now converted, and I/O to the catalogs is 
typically very low using ECS sharing, and I would expect even lower with RLS 
buffering.
So my question is, is it safe to place multiple user catalogs on a volume? I am 
using guaranteed space in SMS, so will be directing specific catalogs to 
specific volumes, so can keep 'hot' catalogs separate if needed, but I don't 
think the single volume per catalog is justified, especially as the trend is 
for volumes with more and more space.

Appreciate any comments.

Thanks

Joe Owens

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