Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation

2013-04-22 Thread Al Sherkow
The examples did not use anything exotic like that. This was "direct" attached DASD and the write misses were occasionally half a second and that showed up in the SMF42-6 data as that records average and maximum service times. -

Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation

2013-04-21 Thread Martin Packer
m.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Al Sherkow To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 04/21/2013 07:50 PM Subject: Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation

2013-04-21 Thread Al Sherkow
Yes the times are in uses of 128 microseconds. If you are a member of CMG or are willing to register on their website you can find my 1998 paper "DOES YOUR INSTALLATION HAVE HALF-SECOND I/O RESPONSE TIME? (A Closer Examination of Disconnect Time)". I believe that paper first explored how to us

Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation

2013-04-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <461643955.1081520.1366308196215.javamail.r...@sz0127a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net>, on 04/18/2013 at 06:03 PM, DASDBILL2 said: >I strongly suspect, without reading the doc, that "ms" should be >microseconds instead of milliseconds.  I suspect this because of >the multiplier 128.  I ad

Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation

2013-04-19 Thread Martin Packer
ail: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: "Mackenzie, Bruce" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 04/19/2013 01:27 PM Subject: Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpret

Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation

2013-04-19 Thread Mackenzie, Bruce
y Duc Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 9:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation Hi all , As a DB2 specialist , i have reports showing a wait for io time in some programs. I did a SMF42 subtype 6 reports and , effectively, my datasets are in the top of the list ,

Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation

2013-04-18 Thread DASDBILL2
l Message - From: "Ducky Duc" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 12:24:21 PM Subject: Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation I guess that the value of 8 for S42DSIOR (Average Response Time) , i.e 128ms X 8 = &

Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation

2013-04-18 Thread Ducky Duc
I guess that the value of 8 for S42DSIOR (Average Response Time) , i.e 128ms X 8 = > 1 second , is not good at all -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu wit

Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation

2013-04-18 Thread DASDBILL2
From: "Ducky Duc" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 8:53:39 AM Subject: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation Hi all , As a DB2 specialist , i have reports showing a wait for io  time in some programs. I did a SMF42 subtype 6 reports and , effectively, my datasets a

Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation

2013-04-18 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Ducky Duc wrote: >However , don't know if my calculation of the average response time of 9 ; >which corresponds to 9 X 128ms = 1152ms , from the manual is correct. And >sorry for the dummy question , what is a "correct" average response time , a >few ms i suppose ... Could you be kind to post

SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation

2013-04-18 Thread Ducky Duc
Hi all , As a DB2 specialist , i have reports showing a wait for io time in some programs. I did a SMF42 subtype 6 reports and , effectively, my datasets are in the top of the list , cut and pasted below from an Excel sheet. However , don't know if my calculation of the average response tim