Here your multitenancy concerns seem to be at the DB2 subsystem level. I 
don't think many would advocate sharing a DB2 subsystem between Prod and 
Test.

Cheers, Martin

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From:   Scott Chapman <[email protected]>
To:     [email protected]
Date:   08/01/2015 12:30
Subject:        Re: How Does Your Shop Limit Testing in the Production 
LPAR
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 13:14:00 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht 
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Or use WLM and change their job priority so they are in 'Siberia work 
priority'. (absolute low priority, so low, it is freezing)

Discretionary work that's running on a system with available capacity will 
run. And if in doing so, it's holding locks in DB2 or pushing useful data 
out of the buffer pools, that might be unfortunate. Or say it's running at 
6am, it might drive up the R4H enough that the production LPAR hits it's 
defined or group capacity limit at 8am when it normally wouldn't. 

If you want to keep a workload from consuming anything (or nearly so) in 
such a situation you'll have to use a resource group in WLM.

Note that running the work on another LPAR on the machine may also not 
keep it from impacting the R4H in an undesirable manner as well. But there 
 you also have the option of setting a defined capacity on the 
non-production LPAR. And that LPAR can have both a defined capacity limit 
as well as be part of a capacity group for the entire CEC.

Scott

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