Re: Two questions: Q1 - DFHSM CPU usage; Q2 - Tape Allocation

2005-06-02 Thread Ed Gould
on 6/2/05 6:26 PM, Russell Witt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course there is always the Tape Preferencing and Control Facility (TPCF) within the MIA component of Unicenter CA-MIM. That has a couple of different options for controlling the allocation of shared tape drives (either dedicate

Two questions: Q1 - DFHSM CPU usage; Q2 - Tape Allocation

2005-06-01 Thread McKown, John
I know that asking two question is bad form. But I'm trying to save a message slot. Both questions are about a z/OS 1.4 system. Q1: DFHSM CPU Utilization We are having a problem with DFHSM CPU utilization. It seems that no matter when we schedule PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT, somebody complains.

Re: Two questions: Q1 - DFHSM CPU usage; Q2 - Tape Allocation

2005-06-01 Thread Knutson, Sam
We run DFHSM in two address spaces for this reason DFHSM and DFHSM#. Take a look at the HOSTMODE=AUX parameter and documentation. I classify the primary DFHSM in SYSSTC and the auxiliary DFHSM in STCLO to provide a service level roughly equivalent to production batch. We have not yet cutover

Re: Two questions: Q1 - DFHSM CPU usage; Q2 - Tape Allocation

2005-06-01 Thread Larre Shiller
John - It's my understanding that this is how allocation currently works and I don't know of anything in z/OS 1.6 that changes it. I believe that the STK allocation code is supposed to do this for tape drives in an STK tape library and perhaps for non-library drives as well, but I don't think

Re: Two questions: Q1 - DFHSM CPU usage; Q2 - Tape Allocation

2005-06-01 Thread Hal Merritt
Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 9:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Two questions: Q1 - DFHSM CPU usage; Q2 - Tape Allocation I know that asking two question is bad form. But I'm trying to save

Re: Two questions: Q1 - DFHSM CPU usage; Q2 - Tape Allocation

2005-06-01 Thread Ed Gould
on 6/1/05 7:00 PM, Ted MacNEIL at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... If so, how to do tell z/OS to spread the I/O around? I used to have SELTAPE=NEXT ... SELTAPE has gone the way of the Dodo. The IEAOPTxx parm was dropped with ESA, IIRC. It is now the lowest available UCB, just like DASD