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Click Below to request your Free PowerLock FlashAudit. http://search400.com/r/0,,5779,00.htm?powertech ================================================================ Today's Featured Tip ================================================================ Use CPU utilization guideline values to monitor high-priority (interactive) jobs Don't wait until your system slows to a crawl before dealing with performance issues. By monitoring response times for critical applications, you can get warnings in advance of any problems. This tip provides updated cumulative CPU utilization guideline values for monitoring your "interactive-like," response time critical applications. Use a guideline value to alert you to possible response time degradation in the "near future" or a possible cause for "longer than normal" response times. >> CLICK here to review the full tip: http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci851120,00.html ================================================================ Answers to Other Administrator Questions ================================================================ 1. Identify interactive job using CPU UTILIZATION window in OpsNav Search400.com member Karl Baker gives you step-by-step instructions for identifying an interactive job consuming the most CPU. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci821881,00.html 2. How to remedy poor response times This user says he has a new 270 running 5.1 that's approximately twice the size of his old system. He isn't running anymore than he was before, but he's having serious performance problems. On occasion his response times on interactive jobs has been five minutes. Site expert Tim Granatir lends a hand. http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid420888_tax285222,00.html 3. Replace Performance Monitor commands in OS/400 V5R1 When IBM released OS/400 V5R1, it replaced OS/400's Performance Monitor feature with a new Collection Services function that is configured through the Management Central capability of iSeries Operations Navigator. That means many shops migrating to V5R1 must learn to put aside the old green-screen commands that start, stop, end, add and change performance collection data under the Performance Monitor and opt instead for the mostly graphical configuration capabilities that come with Collection Services. Unfortunately, there's a problem with this setup. Joe Hertvik tells you what it is and provides a workaround for it. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci835077,00.html 4. Usage of the WRKACTJOB command Search400.com member Don Bourne writes, "When a user on the OS/400 uses the WRKACTJOB command and stays in the command for a lengthy time, does this use up a considerable chunk of CPU and slow down other jobs?" Quite a few of Don's fellow members offered some suggestions. Read what they had to say. http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.ee84639/421 _________________________________________________________________ ********************** SPONSORED BY: inFORM ********************* Archive, search and automatically email documents directly from your iSeries host, with the iView Archive and Retrieval system by inFORM Decisions. Workflow goes full-cycle with inFORM's's iDocs Suite of products. 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