> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 3:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: WLM question. > > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:53:28 -0600, McKown, John wrote: > > >... I want to ensure that non-production work will receive CPU > >cycles. What is really wanted to to say that production batch will > >receive 60% of the cycles, Model office about 20% and test about 10%. > > Yuck! What kind of goal is that?
What kind of goal is that? A political goal, of course! > > I would suggest that you look at response time goals. figure > out what your > test jobs look like. Figure out what percentage of them are > relativeely quick > compiles and short tests. Then decide what kind of > turnaround time you'd like > to give them. Use that to specify a response time goal. > Great precision is not > needed. Suppose that you'd like your quick compiles to > finish in ten minutes. > That's a pretty modest goal. > > Maybe you find that about a quarter of your test jobs are > long running jobs. > Don't worry about it. Just set your response time goal to be > 75% completion > in ten minutes. Once you get it set up, you might find that > you need to make > adjustments. Does everyone submit a long running test just > before going to > lunch? Maybe you need to lower the percentile. Is test > interfering too much > with production? Maybe your ten minute response time goal is > too agressive. > > I hope this helps. Some good ideas in there. > > -- > Tom Marchant -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
