If this is a production LPAR and all the DDF work coming in is
production, classify it as such.
As Mark said, you'll need to keep an eye on it of course.
We saw some awful effects when DDF first came into use. And if you are
already seeing 10% consumption, you might be in for a shock when you
give it a decent classification.

Shane ...

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 10:23 -0600, Kelman, Tom wrote:
> When WLM was set up in this shop about 5 years ago the DDF workload was
> extremely low.  The person that set up WLM assigned DDF to "NEWWORK".
> Over the past year DDF processing has growing considerably to where it
> is now taking approximately 10% of the production LPAR during prime
> shift.  Most of this work is our Online Banking and Online Teller
> applications making direct requests to DB2 on the z/OS system, so it is
> an important workload.  We want to pull DDF out of NEWWORK and give it
> its own service class.  Does anyone have any recommendations as to how
> to set up a service class for DDF, or can you point me to some good
> documentation on the subject?  Thanks for any help you can give. 

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