Re: ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-18 Thread R.S.
David Andrews pisze: [...] - Shared catalog volumes kill you. Don't have multiple catalogs on the same volume. Don't have catalogs on shared volumes, period. In the latter case every catalog lookup requires a VVR read, regardless of whether the

Re: ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-18 Thread Brian Westerman
I agree, I don't see any reason to not put the catalogs on the same drive. Maybe when there were still real drives, it might have made a difference, but with the arrays that most people are using, I would imagine that it's not really going to make a difference. I actually have some issues with

ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-17 Thread John Schafer
We are currently reviewing all of the ICF catalog definitions in our shop. All of our catalogs are ECS defined. Any best pratice or considerations with regard to the following catalog performance options beyond the defaults when these are not specified? STRNO BUFND BUFNI FREESPACE RECORDSIZE

Re: ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-17 Thread David Andrews
considerations with regard to the following catalog performance options beyond the defaults Eileen McClintock has done a presentation at SHARE about catalog tuning. See if you can find it. She recommended (in 2007), among other things: - Don't use anything larger than 8K CI size;

Re: ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-17 Thread Ken Porowski
There was a feature for AUTOTUNING but back in 2008 IBM recommended turning it off (OA20748). I'm not sure if the issues were ever resolved but OA25072 09/2009 turns it off and disables enabling it. F CATALOG,REPORT,CATSTATS should show what is currently in use. -Original Message- John

Re: ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:46:42 -0400, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com wrote: Eileen McClintock has done a presentation at SHARE about catalog tuning. See if you can find it. She recommended (in 2007), among other things: - Shared catalog volumes kill you. Don't have multiple

Re: ICF Catalog performance options

2010-05-17 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:09 -0400, Mark Zelden wrote: I think you are referring to VVDS mode sharing. If you have the catalog in ECS mode, the above isn't true. As an aside, it's a little difficult to avoid sharing catalogs between systems these days. :-) My notes were from a