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Determining Your Tape Activity z/OS DFSMS Implementing System-Managed Storage SC23-6849-00 |
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To prepare for this step, collect 30 to 45 days of your SMF records and use them as input to the volume mount analyzer's extract program, GFTAXTR. Use a normal business day as the ending date for the SMF collection. Use the output from the extract program as the input to all later analyses. Be sure to include data for the peaks in your tape workload. This step introduces you to the volume mount analyzer reports and
gives you an overall picture of tape use. These reports include the
following:
You can use the following GFTAVMA keywords to produce
the initial volume mount analyzer reports:
Use these initial reports to determine a strategy for follow-on analyses needed to design your ACS routines and classes and size of the DASD buffer. |
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