Agree: "Achievable" is what's important here. Please measure it - with 
load.

This is where I struggle without IBM-MAIN  being a visual medium. :-) I 
plot velocity WITH LOAD and see how it droops. My code has done this for 
years and I present this graphing method regularly - to individual 
customers as well as at conferences.

Drooping tells you most of what you need to know. :-)

Of course it's an economic decision whether you let DB2's velocity (really 
the service class' velocity) falter with load. Or whether a velocity in 
the 30-40% range is acceptable. So I'm not making an absolute "70%" 
statement; I merely observe MOST customers achieve 60+, many 70+, some 
80+, a few 90+ .

One other observation: In the service class that DB2 (notionally "STCHI") 
I typically see the main "Using" sample being "Using I/O". It's worthwhile 
establishing this. Of course, if DBM1 is not the "dominant" address space 
this picture could look quite different. To repeat, slightly altered: It's 
worthwhile figuring out why "STCHI" has the velocity it has, when it has.

Hoping this helps, rather than confusing. In any case it's a great way to 
slide into a Friday. :-) And I've a feeling Marna and I could do a while 
podcast episode on just this one topic. :-)

Cheers, Martin

Martin Packer,
zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator,
Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM

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https://developer.ibm.com/tv/category/mpt/



From:   Edward Finnell <[email protected]>
To:     [email protected]
Date:   29/04/2016 01:04
Subject:        Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution
Sent by:        IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>



Some of the new features in RMF are an improvement into what's happening. 
SHARE papers and Redbooks give insight into what to look for in the 
'buckets'.  The Boebligen folks admit Velocity goals are really tough for 
RMF due to 
 rapidity of changing landscape. Configuration is very important. I'd hang 

some  zIIPs on that puppy for a start.
 
 
In a message dated 4/28/2016 6:49:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

available (maybe only 1 or 2), in which case a velocity of 70 is 
probably not achievable. 30 or 40 might be what you realistically  get.

Perhaps looking at the velocity of SYSSTC might give an idea of  the 
limit of achievable  velocity?


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