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business efficiency by providing better system performance and throughput, as
well as usability enhancements that increase storage administration productivity.
For more information about disk management, refer to Chapter 6, “Accessing
large amounts of data” on page 109.
2.7.3 Storage concepts: the address space
The z/OS software was designed to provide security and integrity, while also
allowing communication between functions and access to common services. To
help achieve this goal, the memory of the mainframe is divided into
address
spaces
. Each program or subsystem of the ...