Performance impact of ACF2 Autoerase/Erase on Scratch
Article ID: 139223
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Products
ACF2
ACF2 - DB2 Option
ACF2 for zVM
ACF2 - z/OS
ACF2 - MISC
Issue/Introduction
ACF2 STIG ACF0270 performance and turning related to the ACF2 AUTOERAS GSO option.
Environment
Release : 16.0
Component : CA ACF2 for z/OS
Resolution
There are two options for Auto erase(erase on scratch(EOS)), ACF2 erase-on-scratch and SAF(DFSMS) EOS.
When the ACF2 method is selected, CA ACF2 is responsible for erase-on-scratch support. CA ACF2 intercepts in erase processing gain control when a data set is deleted or released and interpret the NON-VSAM, VSAM, and VOLS AUTOERAS record settings to determine if the data set should be erased or not. You can only exclude by volume for non-vsam, there is no way to exclude some VSAM datasets.
When the SAF method is selected, CA ACF2 supports native DFSMS capabilities which can optionally erase a data set when deleted or released. It uses the ERASEALL, SECLEVEL, and SECLVL AUTOERAS records settings and optionally the PROFILE(ERASE) records to determine if the data set should be erased. You control the specific data sets that are to undergo erase-on-scratch processing with the SAF method
Auto erase(erase on scratch(EOS)) performance is based on the number, size and types of datasets or volumes selected for EOS. EOS performance overhead for auto erase would be incurred at delete by the job/task that is doing the delete because AUTOERAS elongates the SCRATCH process quite a bit. The other cause of possible degraded performance is that a RESERVE macro is issued by DADSM prior to calling us (IGGPRE00), and the reserve contention can be dramatic on work packs with heavy delete/define activity.
When the ACF2 method is selected, CA ACF2 is responsible for erase-on-scratch support. CA ACF2 intercepts in erase processing gain control when a data set is deleted or released and interpret the NON-VSAM, VSAM, and VOLS AUTOERAS record settings to determine if the data set should be erased or not. You can only exclude by volume for non-vsam, there is no way to exclude some VSAM datasets.
When the SAF method is selected, CA ACF2 supports native DFSMS capabilities which can optionally erase a data set when deleted or released. It uses the ERASEALL, SECLEVEL, and SECLVL AUTOERAS records settings and optionally the PROFILE(ERASE) records to determine if the data set should be erased. You control the specific data sets that are to undergo erase-on-scratch processing with the SAF method
Auto erase(erase on scratch(EOS)) performance is based on the number, size and types of datasets or volumes selected for EOS. EOS performance overhead for auto erase would be incurred at delete by the job/task that is doing the delete because AUTOERAS elongates the SCRATCH process quite a bit. The other cause of possible degraded performance is that a RESERVE macro is issued by DADSM prior to calling us (IGGPRE00), and the reserve contention can be dramatic on work packs with heavy delete/define activity.
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