IIRC, I read that if you were capped before you raised the value, you stay capped at the higher value (i.e. no 2 hour grace period to recalculate the 4 hour rolling value).
Mike Wickman -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 2:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Soft Cap It's our annual peak time, first day of classes for Fall Semester. Since last spring, I've "ratcheted down" the group capacity for our 4 lpars on a z9BC-L03. I had it down to 16. Last week I raised it to 17, today after capping had cut in, I raised it to 18 and then to 19. I expected it to take at least some wall time for the 4-hour average to catch up, but in reality, RMF III shows WLM Capping still in effect. It's now lunch time and we seem to be meeting our workload. I guess I really don't fully understand how the 4-hour average is determined. The other thing I've noticed in this exercise these past few months, is that, whatever number I have the Softcap set at (say n=16), SCRT reports n+1 (17). I haven't pursued this curiosity as yet. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <font size="1"> <div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'> </div> "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system." </font> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
