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We will be moving from DB2 v7 to DB2 v8 this weekend and then getting a zIIP engine shortly. We are currently at z/OS v1.7 with plans to get v1.9 installed on all LPARs by the end of the summer. Since the z/OS system programmers are working on the v1.9 installation they don't want to take the time to install the FMID to pick up the zIIP engine information in the SMF records. Also, the plans are to just drop a zIIP loaner in place and try it out instead of sending the data to IBM (Sirius in our case) to do the study. However, I've been asked to estimate the software cost that will be saved by the zIIP engine. I'm thinking this way. Our DB2 DDF workload has grown from nothing to using 10% of the processor during that last year. I know that DB2 DDF will be the major workload eligible for zIIP processing, but I also know that not all of it will end up on the zIIP engine. From what I've heard about 60% of it will end up there. So that means that about 6% of our CPU, or about 8 MSUs, will be moved from the general purpose engines to the zIIP. Am I correct in my thinking or am I way off base? I have Al Sherkow's LCS software with the accompanying costing tables so once I have an estimate as to how many MSUs will move it'll be easy to calculate the cost savings. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
