Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2014-01-07 Thread Art Gutowski
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 12:44:42 -0500, Rob Schramm rob.schr...@gmail.com wrote: Does it really matter as much as it used to? The amount of cache on a dasd subsystem and overall i/o seems more relevant for paging spikes. Not that i am advocating a complete dismissal of all the normal

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2014-01-07 Thread Ron Hawkins
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Art Gutowski Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 10:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT? Yes, how to maximize parallelism is the pertinent question. Let's assume for the sake of argument, DS88xx

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2014-01-07 Thread Rob Schramm
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT? Does it really matter as much as it used to? The amount of cache on a dasd subsystem and overall i/o seems more relevant for paging spikes. Not that i am advocating a complete dismissal of all

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2014-01-03 Thread Jousma, David
Art, You are asking the questions so much better than I thanks. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Art Gutowski Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 1:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Local Page dataset

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2014-01-03 Thread Ron Hawkins
or external storage when they suddenly get busy. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Art Gutowski Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 10:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Local Page dataset

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2014-01-02 Thread Staller, Allan
Determine virtual storage to be backed. Virtual to real (for that LPAR) no greater than 3:1. This can be done by estimation or looking at RMF. Allocate sufficient local page slots such that no single local page DS has more than 30% of slots in use. Spread these slots over and many devices/paths

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2014-01-02 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT? Determine virtual storage to be backed. Virtual to real (for that LPAR) no greater than 3:1. This can be done by estimation or looking at RMF. Allocate sufficient local page slots such that no single local page DS has more

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2014-01-02 Thread Staller, Allan
Agreed -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 8:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT? One additional precaution measure

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2014-01-01 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
: Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT? I, too, have been watching this thread with interest. I read much on overall sizing, but little on individual page dataset sizing or count (quantity). I have perused past posts where those particulars have been discussed, but am curious as to whether

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2013-12-29 Thread Art Gutowski
I, too, have been watching this thread with interest. I read much on overall sizing, but little on individual page dataset sizing or count (quantity). I have perused past posts where those particulars have been discussed, but am curious as to whether any new experiences has lead folks to

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2013-12-28 Thread Roger Steyn
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 3:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT? David, Perhaps with a different twist, what problems are you trying to prevent :-) I wouldn't go to the level of Controller separation

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2013-12-27 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 18:14:27 +, Jousma, David david.jou...@53.com wrote: You are being a little tough on me today. No, I'm just trying to help. ;-) (I have helped in the past with our DB2 performance issues. That was traced down to bad programming practises which gobbled up our paging

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2013-12-27 Thread Ed Gould
I have been watching this discussion with interest. For a short time I was a sysprog at a place that had DB2 and had one small occurrence of page shortage due to a DB2 taking a dump. I asked around and this as the first in anyones memory. I thought for accuracy's sake I would run through a

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2013-12-27 Thread Norman.Hollander
page datasets on them, just in case... Happy New Year! zNorman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 2:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Local Page dataset

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2013-12-27 Thread Ed Finnell
Just push the Easy button? Unfortunately it's not located in easily accessible location. 1)Hardware config WRT CPUs, CoD, Storage, ZIIPs, DASD, SSD 2)Software config WRT to Buffer use. Limiting non-production resources with throttles. 3)Craig Mullin's DB/2 book is a good starting place.

Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2013-12-26 Thread Jousma, David
All, Hope everyone had a good holiday. Just looking at doing a little housecleaning.Haven't visited Local page dataset's since 2006. In general we don't page much, and if we do it usually because there is a problem, or someone is doing something they probably shouldn't. MVS Init and

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2013-12-26 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Jousma, David wrote: Hope everyone had a good holiday. What holiday? I don't see any holiday! ;-D ;-D ;-D ;-D Today we have a roughly 36GB of LOCAL page for each system, that was setup in 2006 spread across 4 mod-9's. Back then we didn't have the amount of memory on the processors that we

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2013-12-26 Thread Jousma, David
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT? Jousma, David wrote: Hope everyone had a good holiday. What holiday? I don't see any holiday! ;-D ;-D ;-D ;-D Ouch. Today we have a roughly 36GB of LOCAL page for each system, that was setup in 2006 spread across 4 mod-9's. Back

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2013-12-26 Thread Ron Hawkins
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 10:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT? Elardus, You are being a little tough on me today. Maybe your summer is too warm? ;) See below

Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT?

2013-12-26 Thread Jousma, David
that’s not necessarily the case. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 3:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Local Page dataset sizing/quantity ROT? David, Perhaps