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 




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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?
>

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