I want to echo something Martin Packer wrote that's really very important, and it also applies to the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator and many other technologies.
Yes, you can very accurately project how much of your current z/OS-hosted workload will benefit from a zIIP. A far more interesting question is what workloads are you NOT currently running on your z/OS machine that really ought to be running on z/OS machine (and that could benefit from the zIIP, IDAA, new Java runtime, etc.) That takes a little more analysis, but it's very, very important to do it and do it well. If the totality of your platform selection policy for workloads consists of something like the two words "MIPS bad," then you're really going to screw things up, probably very badly. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
