Well it's not a performance issue I'm trying to resolve. It's simply having the volumes so fragmented that users sometimes have a hard time finding the amount of space they need in 16 extents.
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:30 PM, McKown, John <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com>wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace > > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 12:23 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > Subject: Defrag > > > > Each day I run a Compress, Release, and Defrag on each volume > > in my SMS DASD > > Storage group. Some of the volumes still remain pretty > > fragmented. Is > > there a way to defrag the Storage Group? > > > > -- > > Mark Pace > > Hum, we don't even bother. We have set things up so that almost all our > datasets are multivolume, via the DATACLAS. And by using DVC (Dynamic Volume > Count) and so on. The DASD is so fast any more that we don't think it is > worth the time to do defrags on volumes. Oh, and we try to keep a fairly > good amount of "head room" in the Storage Groups as well. > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell > john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and > issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake > Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of > TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
