PerfMan for z/OS Specialty Engine Support
PerfMan for z/OS fully supports performance management and capacity planning for IBM's specialty engines, the zIIPs and zAAPs. This includes tracking of specialty engine resource consumption by LPAR and by Workload, reporting on where zIIP and zAAP eligible work is actually run and the total consumption of processor resources by processor type.
ISM CMG 2006 User Group Meeting at the National 2006 CMG Conference was fortunate to have Mr. Peter Enrico, Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc. present his paper entitled zIIPs & zAAPs - A Primer.
Business Value
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Estimates the potential use of specialty engines before they are actually installed. |
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Ensures that specialty engines are optimally utilized by eligible work after they are installed. |
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Improves valuable z/Architecture system staff productivity through knowledge-based analysis and automated report generation and publishing. PerfMan for z/OS allows for an install-and-go environment minimizing human intervention. |
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Simplifies complexity through imbedded intelligence, resulting in reduced risk and cost when making IT enterprise decisions |
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Informed, timely analysis and enterprise-wide view enables IT to be a contributing partner in seeing, setting and achieving strategic business goals and objectives. |
Key Benefits
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Centralized enterprise-wide management of specialty engines regardless of platform or geographic location. |
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Fast ROI by ensuring optimal use of less costly specialty engines by eligible work. |
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Trending and forecasting capabilities to remove the guesswork from capacity planning, capital and operational budgeting. |
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Choice of customer installed and operated or fully outsourced data reduction, analysis and automated reporting with access to all product reports and exclusive executive summaries. |
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Fully automated analysis and reporting. Integrated web publishing or e-mail generation options included. |