AW: Disk balancing - when

[oliver.wenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Stuart,

I guess I'll have to study work management guide, once again...

DSPJOBTBL says:

                              Jobtabellen anzeigen
DECGGW01 
                                                             27.07.00
12:56:11 
 Permanente Jobstrukturen:                Temporäre Jobstrukturen:

   Anfängl. Anzahl  :   30                  Anfängl. Anzahl  :   220

   Zusätzl. Anzahl  :   10                  Zusätzl. Anzahl  :   10

                                            Verfügbar  . . . :   26

 

 

                          ---------------------Einträge---------------------

    Tabelle        Größe       Gesamt    Verfügbar    Verwendet     Sonstige

          1     16748288        16352        12649         3703            0

          2     16748288        16352        16352            0            0

          3      2363136         2296         2296            0            0



 

 

We are about to add DASD and/or ugrade to a bigger machine, as overall
transactions have grown +30%..

I take it, STRDSKRGZ is something like defrag under DOS..

Thanx,

Oliver 

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:  Allen, Stu [SMTP:sallen@fellowes.com]
> Gesendet am:  Dienstag, 25. Juli 2000 12:13
> An:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Betreff:      RE: Disk balancing - when
> 
> To improve the WRKACTJOB response:
> Do a DSPJOBTBL and compare the typical figures on there with the system
> values QACTJOB,QADLACTJOB, QTOTJOB, and QADJTOTJ. (more info in the Work
> Management manual)
> Also do a CHGIPLA and f4 - there's an option to compress job tables at IPL
> which can help.
> You also have a lot of mamory pools set up, but without knowing which pool
> is used for what, and seeing the WHSHRPOOL display i can't really say if
> that is having an effect on this. 
> 
> As far as DSKBAL is concerned, there is little point in running it.  There
> are much better disk management commands at V4R4 that may help balance
> load,
> but you should consider buying more disk, or switching to RAID instead -
> performance starts to suffer over about 75% capacity.
> You could try doing a STRDSKRGZ to put the free space in contiguous blocks
> though.
> 
> Regards,
> Stuart
>                                                              
> Stuart Allen
> European Systems Analyst,  Fellowes
> mailto:sallen@fellowes.com
> 
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