On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:47:32 -0500, Thomas Conley <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>I'd like to take a private survey to determine which sites have enabled both 
>MIDAW and zHPF, or if you haven't enabled either or both, why.  It's come to 
>my attention that some sites may not have enabled these options.  In the case 
>of MIDAW, you have to take action to place MIDAW=NO into IECIOSxx, but for 
>zHPF, you have to turn it on with ZHPF=YES in IECIOSxx.  Both options can 
>significantly lower your I/O overhead and increase throughput, and I haven't 
>come up with a reason for not enabling them.
>
>Please respond to me privately off-list.  I will keep your information 
>confidential.  I am thinking about presenting a recommedation to turn on both 
>options for the Bit Bucket at SHARE in Anaheim.
>

I think you should include HYPERPAV in that same survey.   I think the reason
you will find people don't have zHPF and/or HIPERPAV active is they are 
not free HW features.  I don't know if the vendors charge for MIDAW or
not, or if it just takes the proper HW / code levels to support it.

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