Cheryl Watson's BoxScore product may do part of what you're looking for. http://www.watsonwalker.com/boxscore.html
I have no personal experience with it though and don't know if it looks at specialty engine utilization as part of it's complications. Also, I've noted significant variation in run-to-run CPU (zAAP) usage for batch Java work even when running the exact same code with the same input data on the same configuration (run back to back). While I have and have heard lots of good theories of why that might be, I've not come to any absolute conclusions for my particular instances that I've reasearched in depth. So before you go attributing some variations in the metrics for Java workloads to a system configuration change, make sure that you can get consistent runs without changing anything. (I believe BoxScore works by parsing through a pile of SMF data to find the consistent workloads and then does the before/after comparisons for those workloads. Or something like that -- remember I have no experience actually using the product.) Scott Chapman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
