Vendors also use these reports to validate the size of the LPAR that products run in. It would be nice if IBM would allow non-IBM products to participate in the SCRT.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 SYSN 10:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors R.S. wrote: > Edward Jaffe pisze: > [...] >> IBM SCRT does not support ISV products. Period. > > Why? > SCRT is based on two records: > a) CPU utilization (SMF72 afaik) > b) products launched (SMF89) [I know you mean SMF 70.] The above is only partially true. SCRT has a hard-coded list of supported products inside. (Browse the module under ISPF to find their names.) These are the only products for which SCRT reporting is possible. If you don't believe me, try writing your own program that uses the IFAxxxx macros to generate SMF89 records and see what you see on SCRT. Hint: you will see NOTHING. SCRT reports the monthly peak R4HA for each of the supported IBM products only. If the ISV and customer agree that the ISV product is tied to one of the supported IBM products, everywhere it runs, then the SCRT report *can* be used by the ISV to verify the customer's entitled capacity has not been exceeded. (See IBM's IPLA contracts for how this works.) If the ISV product is not tied to any supported IBM product or runs in a subset of LPARs, there are no applicable fields on the (normal) SCRT report that can be used to do this verification. It is possible for the customer to run SCRT again, using the SMF records from the subset of LPARs in which the ISV product is licensed, to get a peak monthly R4HA for that subset of LPARs. With this approach, the customer must agree that the ISV product is assumed to be running 24x7 and, therefore, tied to z/OS itself. SMF89, which is used by SCRT to know when a product is actively being used, is useless in this and all other scenarios when considering products that are not listed in SCRT's hard-coded internal list of products. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
