Re: VM or MVS Adstar DSM?
1993-10-12 11:49:22
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Re: VM or MVS Adstar DSM? |
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Brent Stilley <[email protected]> |
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Tue, 12 Oct 1993 09:49:22 CST |
On Tue, 12 Oct 1993 10:18:30 EDT Steve Moore said:
>> We installed WDSF a few months ago and we're now planning on
>>converting to ADSM.
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>> My system manager is favouring moving over from WDSF under VM
>>to ADSM under MVS.
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>> Any problems with this, or comments from those who've gone down
>>the same path? Thanks.
>
>I would like to piggyback on Anthony's VM to MVS Adstar conversion question.
>Here at Miami we are trying to determine which platform to install Adsm
>on. The majority of our projected clients are using TCP/IP. On VM we
>have FAL but no tape management system. On MVS we have a tape
>management system but we need to install HAL. This is a difficult
>decision to make without experience with the product. Any comparative
>comments on installation, performance and usability charateristics
>on VM/MVS would be appreciated. I will order the Adsm Implementation
>Examples for performance information. I am oh so happy that I found
>this list. Thanks in advance for any comments.
One observation we've made via some informal FTP benchmarks is that IBM's
MVS TCP/IP seems to outperform the VM version considerably - even when
all the VM tasks are given *all* the system's dispatching preferences.
I suspect this is due to the single threaded nature of CMS machines.
Brent Stilley, Oklahoma State University, 113 Math Sciences, Stillwater, 74078
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