Like all other bottom-line-oriented vendors, they probably added the S DEALLOC years ago when varies were indeed taking up to 6 mins., then never removed it when it no longer became necessary. It costs time and money to remove unnecessary code (unnecessary from the functionality point of view, but not necessarily from the customer's annoyance level) or to add new code to test the z/OS release level in order to know whether or not to bypass the old, unnecessary code. And, like all good bottom-line-oriented vendors, they should react in a customer-friendly manner if enough customers complain. At least one would think so. Profit-making vendors' main goal in life is to maximize the use of resources on creating new income and minimize the resources used to continue milking old cash cows.
Bill Fairchild Rocket Software -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: EMC Timefinder Snap and Dealloc ... Is it still necessary to do this? According to EMC they indicated that the reason they added the S DEALLOC was because varies were taking upto 6 mins. So the use of S DEALLOC was to speed that process up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
