Re: RMF and disk activity questions

2010-08-18 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
ginal Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 8:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: RMF and disk activity questions Rex, Perhaps an oversimplification, but if you had an IO rate of 5/sec at

Re: RMF and disk activity questions

2010-08-14 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
nitor 2 options Monday when I get back to work. Thanks. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 8:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: RMF and disk activity questions R

Re: RMF and disk activity questions

2010-08-14 Thread Ron Hawkins
.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > Pommier, Rex R. > Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 2:10 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] RMF and disk activity questions > > Thanks, Ron. I don't know how I missed that explanation for TIME but I did. > Obviously I was looking i

Re: RMF and disk activity questions

2010-08-14 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
AIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: RMF and disk activity questions Rex, The meaning of Time is explained quite nicely at http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ERBZRA91/5.1.3?SH ELF=ERBZBK91&DT=20091215152130. If you're having a problem reading the fine manual, it says &quo

Re: RMF and disk activity questions

2010-08-14 Thread Ron Hawkins
M-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: [IBM-MAIN] RMF and disk activity questions > > Hello list, > > I have a couple questions, one general question on RMF reporting and the other > on a specific DASD problem I'm having. > > First the general question. On the monitor

Re: RMF and disk activity questions

2010-08-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
Rex, What is the dasd vendor? EMC, IBM , STK? We have EMC and it has its own monitor - Workload Analyzer - that can be used to verify performance on our EMC DASD. Sometimes RMF is not showing a significant disconnect time, but when we use ECC or WLA we can see where the issue might be coming fr

RMF and disk activity questions

2010-08-13 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Hello list, I have a couple questions, one general question on RMF reporting and the other on a specific DASD problem I'm having. First the general question. On the monitor 1 post processing reports, what exactly does the "TIME" field represent? I know this may sound like a silly question, b