I know of at least one of our vendors whose product does not generate the srb's that would get dispatched on the zIIP, if it's not there. However, they will, if you ask, take some of the smf data for the sorts and run their analysis of those records, and come back with projections based on your sort workload. At least for us, it was very useful. Unfortunately, we can't get the zIIP on our z9 anymore :(
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