Mike,

Wouldn't you expect this to show up as ENQ contention rather than an
increase in DASD service time?


Ron

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> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] DASD Mod9/Mod54
> 
> With more data on each volume, your accesses to the single VTOC may delay
> accessing the datasets.  When you had that data on Mod 9s, there were 7
> VTOCs to access that much data.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Ron Hawkins <ronjhawk...@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> > Bob,
> >
> > Then I can tell you that apart from the flattening of IO that I
> > described, there is nothing in the design and architecture of the
> > USP-V that would make a 3390-54 have less performance than 16 or so
> > 3390-3 allocated on the same parity group.
> >
> > I'm afraid that it is the nature of your IO and not the size of the
volume.
> >
> > What are you seeing in the ESS stats for the Parity groups?
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
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> >> Behalf Of Lester, Bob
> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:51 AM
> >> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> >> Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] DASD Mod9/Mod54
> >>
> >> Hi Kees,
> >>
> >>      Hitachi USPV.  Very little IOSQ time, so no PAV.  Looks like
> >> mostly disconnect time.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> BobL
> >>
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> On
> >> Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 2:02 AM
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> >> Subject: Re: DASD Mod9/Mod54
> >>
> >> "Lester, Bob" <bles...@oppenheimerfunds.com> wrote in message
> >> news:<8F672BE771329649A9EB59C7D9D6A2D9521E8B40@den-
> >> xmail01.den.OFI.com>.
> >> ..
> >> > Hi Folks,
> >> >
> >> >      With todays' modern disk arrays, is there any reason (z/OS
> >> > based
> >> or other) that response time for my Mod54s is consistently higher
> >> than for my Mod9s?
> >> >
> >> >      Assume identical workload against each, single array with
> >> multiple LCUs.  RMF says the LCUs are pretty well balanced.  Single
image.
> >> Pretty simple setup.
> >> >
> >> >      Thoughts?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks!
> >> > BobL
> >> >
> >>
> >> Which storage device?
> >> Do you use PAV / Hyperpav?
> >>
> >> Kees.
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