>Someone in management here wants to know what the sampling interval is >for the calculation by the z10 hardware of the 4hr rolling average MSU's >that is used to trigger softcapping. > Both "local" defined capacity and group capping are based on a vector of 48 intervals of 5 min. Defined capacity maintains a the used capacity and group capacity management a vector of "unused" capacity. You could find some more information e.g. in http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246472.html?Open, or, if you have access to the SHARE archives, in http://ew.share.org/proceedingmod/abstract.cfm?abstract_id=14712 (Chart 30).
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