The thought that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" may be ok if you are not worried about how your precious resources are consumed. If you don't have an issue with re-visiting your Velocity Goals when ever a "life-altering event" happens in your environment (such as change in Processors, change in peripherals, change in channels, change in OS release, change in CICS/IMS version, change in application, change in workload), then Velocity Goals may be right for you. If you can categorize your Online Transactions into Loved Ones, Default, and non-Loved Ones, then Response Goals can work for you. Trying to categorize all Transactions may be a life-time career. You may actually re-coup Processor Resources by not having all of the Transactions run at the Priority needed to attain the Velocity within the Importance Level. You can certainly try Response Goals on a Region by Region basis. It is not necessary to turn this on for all regions, and it certainly may not be appropriate for all environments. I personally recommend Response Goals to help map the work to specific SLAs that should be in place.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 SYSN 8:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WLM questions In a message dated 5/7/2007 9:51:08 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've never had a problem with CICS and velocity. We do about 3/4 of a million trans./day and get a couple of tenths to a half second response. I attended a Share WLM free for all about 3 - 4 years ago where CICS transaction goals vs. velocity goal management almost turned into a free >> Again, an educational opportunity. The WLM goals should match the business priorities and SLAs. How can you tell? In an MbM environment it's who squeals the loudest or who's your daddy? Cheryl has a method with their Goal Tender product (at _www.watsonwalker.com_ (http://www.watsonwalker.com) ) to take the WLM objectives and the SMF data and see what's shakin'. As previously posted the one thing certain is we're all a little different with varying workloads, capacity, Plexification, virtualization, enrollment, demand, cyclical adjustment, business fluctuations, etc.. As the environment becomes more complex, less and less people are trained from the technical side to present data to the hierarchy in a cogent manner to influence/impact decisions of more, better, bigger, or faster. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
