On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:26:45 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: >>DFSORT can use zIIP on behalf of DB2 utilities, but not otherwise. Here's >>more information: > > >>At this time, IBM has no plan for enabling DFSORT to exploit the system z9 >>Integrated Information Processor (zIIP). IBM realizes DFSORT remains a >>prominent component of our customers' batch workloads. However, the >>added controls that would need to be implemented in order to maintain our >>high standards for performance, reliability and system integrity are not >>justified in view of estimations that there is a low offload potential and >>the value to clients may be marginal.....[snip] > >I seem to remember that SyncSort offers an Add-On package that allows >certain SyncSort processing to be offloaded to zIIPs. The above statement >suggest that SyncSort's perfocmance is suffering from using zIIPs (simplified >and exagerated, I know).
I understood "there is a low offload potential and the value to clients may be marginal" as meaning that there would not be much benefit in using zIIP. Not that it would be worse. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
