Thomas Kern writes: >There is a difference between the 'Intro to Chargeback' reports that lowly >sysprogs might give to management as their first look at computer accounting >and the high-powered What-If modeling done by capacity planning scientists >trying to show the outcome of buying a zIIP this month and a zAAP next month >and switching to that new z05 with accelerator J in six months.
There is indeed, but unfortunately a lot of managers, especially by the time the data get circulated three degrees of separation and beyond, improperly interpret such data and act accordingly. So my caution was mostly to point out that it's critical that all such simple data get stamped inseparably with heavy but friendly disclaimers. Remember, they're not getting these data from any other systems. SMF is unique. I'm not suggesting burying the data, but the data consumers almost always need education. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
