Dave - I'm by no means a Capacity Planning guru but here's my 2 cents.

Velocity is defined as a measure of protection against delay - it's not a hard 
and fast number. I'd first look at your service classes and find if any of them 
have a PI of less than 1. If they do they are over achieving their goals and 
you could drop the velocity on them to provide resources to the service classes 
who are struggling. Adjust the Velocities by 10 rather than single digits. All 
the tuning of the high achieving (not High Importance or velocity) Classes will 
provide help to the under achievers.

Jerry Whitteridge
[email protected]
Manager Mainframe Systems & HP Non-Stop
Albertsons Companies

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It has been quite some time since I had to worry about my WLM policy. We've had 
ample capacity since 2007. Now, as We begin to wind down, we have reduced our 
contracted MSU capacity.
We dropped from 15 to 12 on an 5 way z13S-N05. My WLM policy, last seriously 
adjusted in 2007 when we moved to a z9-L03 has velocities ranging from a high 
of 90 (Adabas, Imp 1)   down to 5 (BATCH Imp 5)
We are experiencing just a minor amount of performance pain. It strikes me that 
perhaps some of my higher velocity goals (90, 70, 60, 50) may be unattainable 
under the now reduced capacity.

What is the high end for possible, single threaded (Adabas) velocity here? Or, 
where should I be reading in current manuals. I was better at this 15 years ago.

Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University


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