John, I pondered this for quite some time and I think I have the answer for you:
It depends :) Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Chase, John > Sent: Monday, 1 May 2006 9:46 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Dataset Contention > > Hi, All, > > The following question was posed in our shop recently: > > "How many jobs can access a DISK DSN with a DISP=SHR before any > performance degradation occurs due to access contention? > > "Meaning, We have 1 dataset sitting on disk, we have 35 jobs that need > to access this one dataset, how many jobs can run at one time accessing > this one dataset before the access creates contention and stops jobs > from running?" > > All of the access would be read-only, and AFAIK the dataset is non-VSAM. > > TIA, > > -jc- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
