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We only have a single monoplex today. We are splitting it in twain for
political reasons. I.e. the current image will run only production work,
the new image will run all development/test/q&a (nonproduction) work. It
will be a basic sysplex because nobody would pony up the $173,000 USD to
get a CFL for our z9BC.
If interested, the reasoning goes that since we cannot get all of our
work done during month-end because production soaks the CPU totally, the
non-production work is be unjustly penalized. This will be "fixed" by
putting the non-production work in its only LPAR on the same CEC and
"weighting the LPARs appropriately". Nobody would believe me when I said
that I could do this using WLM on a single image. They wouldn't even
allow a "proof of concept" to see how a WLM solution might work. Yes,
I'm disgusted.
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The whole situation sounds very much like "Management by Airline
Magazine". Do as you're told, try and soak the very best performance you
can get, watch for vacancies in the ranks of senior management and
quietly prepare for a CPU upgrade. Your politicians are like most
others; not all, but most. They don't know diddley squat about capacity
management and they've let things deteriorate to the point where the
only solution is to spend some money, a mortal sin in their eyes.
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