I'll research DVC.   Thanks.

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Staller, Allan <allan.stal...@kbm1.com>wrote:

> You might want to consider getting somewhat more aggressive with dfHSM
> migration. This will free up space, reduce extents required,.....
>
> Also consider DVC in the SMS STORCLAS.
>
> The historical pattern of DSN access (in most shops) is write/read once
> and fageddaboudit.
>
> HTH,
>
> <snip>
> 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.
> </snip>
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:30 PM, McKown, John
> <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com>wrote:
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> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > 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.
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