Re: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db

2005-10-17 Thread Bill Fairchild
In a message dated 10/17/2005 11:26:21 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Disabling caching doesn't work on most recent control units. There are >flags in the Define Extent CCW but in the IBM 2105 (Shark) manual they say: >001 - bypass cache - tracks accessed by this

Re: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db

2005-10-17 Thread Bruce Black
But not all I/Os use caching. Some access methods disable caching for certain I/Os which could account for a high percentage of cache misses. Disabling caching doesn't work on most recent control units. There are flags in the Define Extent CCW but in the IBM 2105 (Shark) manual they say:

Re: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db

2005-10-17 Thread Bill Fairchild
In a message dated 10/6/2005 11:39:54 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Unless I have my head on backwards today (it happens), search with key or similar >operations which cannot be converted to ECKD, cause large CONNECT time, not >disconnect, since they are essentiall

Re: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db

2005-10-06 Thread Marian Gasparovic
There are several reasons for disconnect time - read cache miss - reconnect misses - PPRC (I don't know how they call it on HDS) - CU busy Are you on ESCON or FICON ? On 10/6/05, Bruce Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >We have a high disconnect time on a IMS vsam database. device is H

Re: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db

2005-10-06 Thread Bruce Black
We have a high disconnect time on a IMS vsam database. device is HDS 9980V. I guess this is because the channel program is performing SEEK for a specific block, or Search with Key. Can't see any other reason why this happens. Unless I have my head on backwards today (it happens), search with k

Re: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db

2005-10-06 Thread Patrick . Falcone
disconnect time on IMS vsam db We do. But this database is almost read only (98.8% of the total IO for the disk drive the DB resides on). There is no RPM miss on that kind of device, so I guess it is a search with key or Seek. I looked at the SSAs but couldn't see any special argument that

Re: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db

2005-10-06 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
ack and get the info from there. Ron > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach > Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:01 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db

Re: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db

2005-10-06 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
; From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach > Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2005 4:30 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db > > We have a high disconnect time on a IMS vsam database. device is H

Re: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db

2005-10-06 Thread Itschak Mugzach
We do. But this database is almost read only (98.8% of the total IO for the disk drive the DB resides on). There is no RPM miss on that kind of device, so I guess it is a search with key or Seek. I looked at the SSAs but couldn't see any special argument that might cause that. Itschak -

Re: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db

2005-10-06 Thread Joel Wolpert
Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/06/2005 04:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db Ron, wherefore art thou Ron Might even make a bit of sense with a bit of luck Shane ... From: "Itschak Mugzach" > W

Re: High disconnect time on IMS vsam db

2005-10-06 Thread ibm-main
Ron, wherefore art thou Ron Might even make a bit of sense with a bit of luck Shane ... From: "Itschak Mugzach" > We have a high disconnect time on a IMS vsam database. device is HDS > 9980V. I guess this is because the channel program is performing SEEK > for a specific block,

High disconnect time on IMS vsam db

2005-10-06 Thread Itschak Mugzach
We have a high disconnect time on a IMS vsam database. device is HDS 9980V. I guess this is because the channel program is performing SEEK for a specific block, or Search with Key. Can't see any other reason why this happens. Thanks for your advise. Itschak ---