Thanks David, I will definitely add this to my 'must read' list. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Betten Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS DASD Allocation using Esoterics You may want to look at the DFSMSdfp Storage Administration Reference topic 6.6, SMS Volume Selection for Data Set Allocation. This discusses in detail the criteria used by DFSMS for volume selection. Have a nice day, Dave Betten DFSORT Development, Performance Lead IBM Corporation email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DFSORT/MVSontheweb at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> wrote on 06/15/2006 03:17:21 PM: > Raymond's point is excellent. It is also possible that there was not > adequate space or there was some other constraint at the time SMS made the > decisions. It would be interesting to see if you got the exact same > results at different periods, repeating the same experiment. > > I think I'm in trouble here because I just implied that the software can > actually THINK! I must need a vacation. > > Regards, > > Rob Weiss > z/SWITA and z/Series I/T Security and Privacy Consultant > IBM Software Group Sales > > IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> wrote on 06/15/2006 > 01:01:40 PM: > > > Raymond, > > > > Are all of the SMS managed volumes in ENABLE status? Maybe one of the > > volumes > > is in QUIESCE status or even DISABLE or DISABLE, NEW. > > Regards, > > John > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
