Re: using SMS compression - how to manage

2011-04-27 Thread Walt Farrell
Well, it might be as much work to manage, and so might not be what you want, but you could make use of the RACF DFP segments that everyone seems to ignore, which were designed originally to eliminate the need for programming ACS exit routines and things like FILTLISTs. The DFP segment for the gene

Re: using SMS compression - how to manage

2011-04-27 Thread Greg Shirey
>From z/OS V1R9.0 DFSMS Storage Administration Reference: "For a VSAM data set definition, the &SIZE and &MAXSIZE read-only variables reflect the space value specified in the CLUSTER component. If one is not specified in the CLUSTER component, then the space value specified in the DATA compone

Re: using SMS compression - how to manage

2011-04-27 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:59 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: using SMS compression - how to manage > > Tell them to

Re: using SMS compression - how to manage

2011-04-27 Thread Gibney, Dave
State University > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of McKown, John > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:52 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: using SMS compression - how to manage > >

Re: using SMS compression - how to manage

2011-04-27 Thread McKown, John
edu] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:39 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: using SMS compression - how to manage > > How is a FILTLIST substantially different/harder to maintain than a " > list of dataset names and patterns"? >

Re: using SMS compression - how to manage

2011-04-27 Thread Gibney, Dave
How is a FILTLIST substantially different/harder to maintain than a " list of dataset names and patterns"? I don't remember DVC being part of &MAXSIZE when I did this. I also found that setting DVC to a more reasonable number like 4 or 8 works just as well as 59 without the serious impacts 59 can