>Let me guess. Guess away! >That storage group has data sets of widely differing sizes, causing it to >become highly fragmented.the problem is probably compounded by a large number >of data sets that are directed to it, perhaps of a transient nature.
The varying sizes are from large, to larger, and huge. These 'fragments' are not onesies & twosies! >And I'll bet that is allowed to get far too full. Yes, because the business is growing faster than we can keep up. (Which is a 'good' problem to have). >Defrag is a poor solution to bad SMS design. Who said it was a bad design? It needs work, but work requires people to do it. Defrag is cheap; people aren't. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
