Bruce Black wrote: >I believe that currently the only exploiter of MIDAWs is DB2 so unless >you have DB2 data in the EMCs it may not make a difference.
More than DB2. An IBM FAQ list says the following about MIDAW: "Applications that use the following may benefit [from MIDAW]: DB2, VSAM, Partitioned Data Set Extended (PDSE), Hierarchical File System (HFS), z/OS File System (zFS), and other datasets exploiting striping and compression. Applications using ESCON may also experience performance improvements." http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/faq/io_enhancements_faq.html There's also 4 Gb FICON/FCP now with the System z9 BC and EC. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries Tokyo (Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
