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mark loftus

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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 7:53 pm
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I would like to try to establish what is the most cpu efficient way of copying a DSN through batch. If anyone has already done any research on this i would be very interested in the results. A league table of results would be very useful.
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enrico-sorichetti

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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:26 pm
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Well said, Give it a try and let us know...

program/utilities to test
- IDCAMS
- IEBGENER
- ICEGENER
- DFDSS
- RYO assembler ( excp level )

run with different blocksizes, different lrecls
post the results
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2008 12:35 am
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Hello,

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what is the most cpu efficient way of copying a DSN through batch
Usually, cpu usage is not an issue when copying data. The process is nearly always i/o bound. . .
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Bill Dennis

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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2008 1:40 am
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When comparing to IEBGENER and RYO, we found ICEGENER to be the least CPU and lowest EXCP counts for larger file sizes but it was slightly worse than RYO for very small files.
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2008 1:57 am
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Hello,

ICEGENER invokes the sort.

On many systems, IEBGENER executions are intercepted and sort/copy is used instead of GENER.

The sort products (DFSORT & Syncsort) have more "start-up" costs, but more than make up for it when processing anything other than small files.
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Douglas Wilder

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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2008 2:34 am
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In very limited testing of copying PS files My results of relative cost at this shop were:
Repro 1.0 Gener 1.63 SrchPrnt .99 DF Sort .39
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gcicchet

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PostPosted: Sun May 25, 2008 6:38 am
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Hi,

see this linkhttp://ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=25928&highlight=gerry+iebgener+idcams


Gerry
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Terry Heinze

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:16 am
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I've read a lot of discussions of this over the years and the general consensus is that SORT (whether it be DFSORT, Syncsort, or CA-Sort) usually outperforms the rest. As enrico suggested, give them all a try and report back.
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