I believe that you have entered the realm of WLM. WLM is a key enforcer of that MSU capacity that you have licensed. Has your CPU been capped at a value less than that 272 you saw in the benchmark documentation?
HOWEVER -- WLM only has to do enforcement when Demand is greater than Supply. Otherwise, it is pretty much hands off and let the workload get whatever it is demanding. In times of extreme demand, you are being held to the 92 MSU level. To see if individual tasks have seen improvement, you should look into the Batch modeling using one of the IBM purchased or no-charge tools. (The names escape me at the moment) As mentioned by others, these tools can analyze your SMF from before and after the upgrade. You would then analyze that ouput. It is very possible that if you were banging up against the MSU cap, you still are. In that case the overall hardware usage numbers would not change. A monthly average will not show you any pain points when Supply does not meet Demand. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
