Darth, Were you thinking of the sustained data rate value, rather than initial access time?
Note that you can use unitcnt and guaranteed space to control the number and size of stripes from JCL, rather than using the data rate. I've always preferred this method. Ron > > Another way to get your space allocated across multiple volumes would be > by striping which is controlled by the "Init Acc Response" attribute of > the storage class. This would would cause your primary allocation to > split across a # of volumes to get you the desired intial access response > time. When you write the DS out, you would send a write to the 1st > volume, the 2nd write goes to the 2nd volume & so on. There are > limitiation to this - IIRC you can only have 16 extents to a stripe. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
