On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:25:31 -0500, Ramiro Camposagrado wrote: >Management is trying to cut and save CPU cost. So they came up with >this "Cost Avoidance Committee". (Primarily consisting of uper management). >Now they want us to somehow equate the CPU Time consumed (primarily by a >CICS transaction) and equate that into MIPS. I know that folks have come up >with formulas on how to do this.
Let's see.... Your Ferrari is capable of going 200 MPH. It took five minutes to drive to the grocery store one mile away. How many MPH did it use? You could try to educate your committee. Rather than using convoluted formulas to come up with meaningless comparisons, you could give them real data that might give them what they need. For example. Your processor has (let's say) four engines, each of which can execute code for 24*60*60 seconds every day. The number of CPU seconds used by the CICS transaction(s) is what percentage of the available CPU seconds? You might want to use total reported CPU seconds per day rather than the theoretical maximum because of system overhead. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
