I saw a paper a couple of months ago (I can't find it right now). It related the experience of an insurance company migrating to a z13. The performance tables indicated it should handle the workload, but it was pegged at 100% and not meeting goals. They upgraded a little bit, and the relief from the 100% resulted in 85% utilization or so and meeting all goals. They negotiated with the vendors so they could up the model number but pay according to use. They then licensed everything in the one drawer (730 up from 710) and their usage went down like 20%. The cache usage went up, and associating one chip cache with the same LPAR saved a lot on having to reload the cache.
So expect customers to want to license by the maximum 4 hour rolling average value instead of the number of cpus active. On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Tony Thigpen <[email protected]> wrote: > I license my VSE software to customers based on their cpu capacity. In the > past, I have trusted my customers, but recently, I have had two customers > give 'inaccurate' information. I want to add code to my product software key > to validate either the capacity setting or max MSUs. > > I asked for information on IBM-MAIN because z/OS usually has more stuff like > this and once I knew where the data was, I could go back to my supervisor > listings and internal IBM contacts and ask for the location of the same data > in z/VSE. > > Tony Thigpen > > Walt Farrell wrote on 04/25/2016 08:02 PM: >> >> On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 19:28:28 -0400, Tony Thigpen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I want to know if the box is an A01, M04, etc. >> >> >> I think that others are hinting that may not be a meaningful question. Why >> do you want to know, and what use do you plan to make of the information? >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
