Possible resources to assist in evaluations of new hardware: #1. Start gathering SMF 113 records "Hardware Instrumentation Services" (HIS) (z10's and up). #2. Use the zPCR tool: http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS1381
Also remember, if you are going to a z13 system, there are new hardware instructions that use the zIIP engines, not just JAVA. The newer COBOL can take advantage of this, but there is also a tool that will let you create a new loadlib data set that will allow older COBOL programs to take advanatage of this also. Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 UFIT University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 6:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Any Gotchas going from V1.13 to V2.2 A z13s machine configured as a X01 capacity model (where X=A through Z) plus a zIIP is not *exactly* a "uniprocessor" machine. To be precise, that machine would be a uni-CP machine. That machine configuration would actually support up to three processor execution threads in z/OS, depending on the workloads. If you preferred a two-way processor configuration in the past, pre zIIP/zAAP, then "probably" you will continue to prefer a two-way processor configuration. However, "probably" is not "definitely." Ask "your friendly IBM representative" for advice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
