Tim Hare wrote: >Set MANx CISIZE to half track (26624).
Interesting. Why half track? Is it documented that it will help? Just curious if you don't mind, please. >// AMP='BUFND=60', >60 buffers = 2 cylinders if you are using half track CI sizes. That is a good one. I really need to investigate that AMP and its friends. >On the output sequential datasets on disk we use >RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32760,BLKSIZE=0 and let the system choose the blocking. Oh, yes, I should have mentioned that. This is what I always do. Let the sytem decide about blocksize. Thanks Tim. >If you have huge amounts of data you might consider using striping for the >output if it is going to disk; Striping? Hmmmmm. Ok, I will really need to talk with my storage admin about this little gem. Thanks Tim. You burned a hole in my dizzy brain. ;-) I really appreciate your kind and helpful reply to Lizette's post. Much appreciated. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
