This does beg the question, is there any significant performance difference when writing to the filemode vs. writing to an unaccessed directory?
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 3:12 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Size of SFS control backup > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Alan Altmark > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Use an ENDCMD nucleus extension to check for and re-access > any missing > > directories. > > You mean in the SFS server to catch it when it falls in CMS > Ready ? Yuck. > > And it's way more useful than just there. When we ran CMS > applications in a larger CS configuration, taking one system > out would make CP find the other route immediately. But any > directories accessed in applications were released due to > this. I know we could change the applications to write to SFS > files directly rather than via a filemode, but that's serious > changes. Would be nice if CMS would just retry the ACCESS > when you need it, instead of forcing the RELEASE. > -Rob >
