Re: VLF vs ISC for catalogs

2007-03-27 Thread Christian Blesa
Not all catalogs are good candidates to VLF. You should revise some high-modified ucats (like ucats of Control-D, Spazio, ...) that must be out from ISC and VLF. We've also MCAT in ISC. Bye -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

VLF vs ISC for catalogs

2007-03-26 Thread Jon Brock
As part of a drive to increase catalog performance, I am thinking of moving a couple of our catalogs from ISC to VLF caching. A limited test I have done seems to show that it would help, but I am interested in hearing whether you folks out there (or as we say around here, y'all) use VLF or ISC

Re: VLF vs ISC for catalogs

2007-03-26 Thread Friske, Michael
vs ISC for catalogs As part of a drive to increase catalog performance, I am thinking of moving a couple of our catalogs from ISC to VLF caching. A limited test I have done seems to show that it would help, but I am interested in hearing whether you folks out there (or as we say around here, y'all

Re: VLF vs ISC for catalogs

2007-03-26 Thread Mark Steely
Subject: Re: VLF vs ISC for catalogs ISC limits the amount of cache used for each catalog, and ISC is a dumb cache when compared to VLF. When a catalog using ISC is shared with multiple systems and the Catalog Address Space (CAS) detects an update from another system, CAS will invalidate all the records

Re: VLF vs ISC for catalogs

2007-03-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
you folks out there (or as we say around here, y'all) use VLF or ISC for your hard-hit catalogs. I put all the TSO catalogues, and our Production Catalogue (everything started with the same HLQ) into VLF, years ago. And, the last thing I did in that former life was enlarge the allocated

Re: VLF vs ISC for catalogs

2007-03-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
A little off the subject.. I don't see where it's off the subject -- it's still regarding VLF. if you are not sharing catalogs is it still a good idea to put the catalogs in VLF? Yes, if the catalogues are very active. ISC still has a fixed amount of memory. - Too busy driving to stop for