On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:19:29 -0600, Field, Alan C. <[email protected]> wrote:
>We are a JES2 shop, z/OS 1.8 going to 1.10. > > > >We have two production LPARS in a parallel sysplex. > > > >CLASS=A work can run on either lpar > > > >Because the job scheduling package runs on only one lpar is tends >overload its lpar. > > > >We've tried to manage the number of inits manually to balance the >utilization but it's not easy. > > > >We're wondering about WLM inits for this class. Early experience with >WLM inits wasn't positive. > > > >Have things improved, should we give it another try? > > On my way out for the day so sorry for a brief answer. I am going to say a qualified "yes". Some changes were made to help balance at the z/OS 1.8 level (I think that was it). Don't know when you tried it last. So it's still flawed but better than it used to be and may be good enough for you (we've been running WLM since OS/390 2.4). Search the archives, review the WLM redbook and SHARE for more information. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
