I currently have a mod 3 and a mod 9 Page Pack at L1. Brian suggests using this maintenance upgrade as an opportunity to eliminate the mixed PAGE Packs at L1.
My Storage Group is balking at the idea of giving me another mod 9 for paging. Will I impact performance if I replace my 2nd mod 9 Page pack at L1 with a mod 3, to match the other mod 3 page pack? Here is some L1 steady state data: Q ALLOC PAGE EXTENT EXTENT TOTAL PAGES HIGH % VOLID RDEV START END PAGES IN USE PAGE USED ------ ---- ---------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ ---- 540PAG 10BA 1 3338 600840 201633 403918 33% 540PG2 12CD 1 10016 1761K 189808 371828 10% ------ ------ ---- SUMMARY 2347K 391441 16% USABLE 2347K 391441 16% Ready; T=0.01/0.01 13:56:15 Brian Nielsen <bniel...@sco.idaho.gov> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> 10/05/2010 12:45 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Multi Page/Spool Directory Defs As others have mentioned, they are placeholders to prevent directory managment software from allocating minidisks on them. What I also noticed was that your PAGE space is a mix of DASD sizes. Check out the recent thread discussing the pitfalls of doing so. You might want to fix that on your 1st level system. Brian Nielsen On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:52:50 -0400, George Henke/NYLIC <george_he...@newyorklife.com> wrote: >My Level 1l PAGE and SPOOL disks have only the first volume defined in t he >Directory. > >* >USER $PAGE$ NOLOG > MDISK A03 3390 000 END 540PAG R >* >USER $SPOOL$ NOLOG > MDISK B01 3390 000 END 540SPL R >* > >Yet, Q ALLOC PAGE and SPOOL recognize a second volume for each: > >q alloc page > EXTENT EXTENT TOTAL PAGES HIGH % >VOLID RDEV START END PAGES IN USE PAGE USED >------ ---- ---------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ ---- >540PAG 10BA 1 3338 600840 198644 395999 33% >540PG2 12CD 1 10016 1761K 184565 364318 10% > ------ ------ ---- >SUMMARY 2347K 383209 15% >USABLE 2347K 383209 15% >Ready; T=0.01/0.01 10:49:47 >q alloc spool > EXTENT EXTENT TOTAL PAGES HIGH % >VOLID RDEV START END PAGES IN USE PAGE USED >------ ---- ---------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ ---- >540SPL 106C 1 3338 600840 506931 600840 84% >540SP2 101B 1 3338 600840 597514 600840 99% > ------ ------ ---- >SUMMARY 1174K 1079K 91% >USABLE 1174K 1079K 91% >Ready; T=0.01/0.01 10:49:56 > >Is this how is should be? >