We have discussed the validity of the "UP" recommendation around our shop for years. One former employee indicated that although CICS has multiple TCBs, it "really only uses one." I found that curious as well.
We only run the one suite of applications, one production CICS. It is an old app and does a lot of batch to CICS to access VSAM files along with DB2. It does hit some very high CPU running these processes and some of the online transactions are pretty ugly, too. We run a lot of print conversion stuff and some distributed DB2 which would surely benefit from additional CPs, but hard to say what the overall effect would be. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
