The plot thickens... I forgot that Ed Jaffe refuted this a few years ago:
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0301&L=ibm-main&P=R23966&I=1 As to not re-hash the entire thread, *please* search the archives or google for "TSO ISPPROF heavy usage". Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:27:48 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:49:22 -0500, John P Kalinich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >>Below is the discussion from ISPF-L that Mark Zelden was referring to. > >That's it! Thank you John... saved me a search of the archives. BTW, >that post was from 7 years ago (Oct. 5 1998). > >Mark > > >> >>Regards, >>John Kalinich >>Computer Sciences Corp >>-- >> >>Monitor your ECSA usage. It may increase if you have dozens or hundreds of >>users with ISPPROF datasets as PDSEs. >> >>We normally recommend against having ISPF profile datasets being PDSEs >>because ISPF uses update-in-place and has padding in profile dataset >>members to usually avoid x37 abends while writing to ISPPROF. Also, as >>mentioned above, open PDSEs use storage in ECSA, even if they are not >>shared. Finally, the performance of PDS is usually better than PDSE for >>ISPF profile datasets. >> >>Dave Levish >>Former PDSE Developer >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
