All of the previous advice has been correct, but maybe there are other options.
Have you investigated the AutoSoftCapping product from zCOST Management? This solution does introduce a "soft capping" technique, so you know that you will never exceed the high-watermark setting, namely MSU. Thus this is way to safeguard that your software bill is never higher than expected. It also dynamically allocates MSU resources to the workload requiring them the most (E.g. Production), based on user customizable parameters, safeguarding mission-critical performance characteristics and SLA objectives. Try the following links: http://www.zcostmanagement.com/pages/products.php http://www.value-4it.com/products/zCOST.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
