Re: SMAPP is killing our 520

Must be some pretty hefty data conversion!

I'm not skilled enough on the database side to help you with specifics, but
i'm sure some others here are.  Alternatively, i'd call IBM support and get
the DB2 people on the line to describe what you're seeing.

A basic thing you could try to see if it makes a difference is to use the
CHGRCYAP command to scale your target recovery time back (increased target
recovery time) to a point that seems to impact your conversion processes at
an acceptable level.

It does seem to make sense that if the files being protected are constantly
in flux while being 'converted', the access paths being protected by SMAPP
are probably continually being processed for SMAPP coverage.  I've never
seen SMAPP have any real detrimental impact, but i've never had a box that
was purely converting files for very long, either!


                                                                       
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What is your SMAPP target recovery time set to?  You can see this with the
DSPRCYAP command...


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Installed brand-spanking new 520 running V5R4 and current PTFs to use for a

data conversion process.  Data conversion is the only thing running on the
system so it gets 70-80% of CPU.  Suddenly the data conversion job drops to

20-30% of CPU but nothing is evident on WRKACTJOB to account for the
change.
We start iNav system monitor and see JO-EVALUATE-TSK1 and JO-EVALUATE-TSK2,

each taking between 40 & 50 % of CPU.  These jobs don't just run for a
minute or two and go away, they run for quite a while, and are (the best I
can tell) related to determining something or other related to SMAPP
(System
Managed Access Path Protection).

My question: What can be done so that the conversion process (which already

takes several days) doesn't turn into something that takes several weeks
and
the JO... jobs don't suck all of the life out of this new system?  The
system is new out of the box and has had no special modifications such as
additional ASPs or user ASPs, etc.  It is currently using 48% of 6 TB DASD
and 16 GB memory.

TIA,

Steve


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