Hi, John, No, while I have not had any say in how this is all set up, I meant we have things like Class Max Tasks is set to 1 for many key transactions, in several AOR regions. Some of the transactions are coded in a way I saw many years ago that I characterize as running a batch job in a CICS. I hold my breath while they run and pray the web side of the interactive workload doesn't back up or time out and cascade to a bigger issue. These exist for historical reasons, which I am trying to be delicate about discussing.
We have a TOR and a couple of FOR regions. We have enough online related TCBs hot at a time that I lean more towards the 5 CPU machine, but some others here want the 3 CPU machine to push the single threaded stuff faster. My role in this is upgrade project is at a high level advisor as we upgrade OS and processors. Having done many of these kinds of things in the past in other shops I'm helping with direction and focus of the people doing the hand's on stuff. Decisions on which of two processors is the latest point under discussion. If I had a more hand's on role I would be doing some things differently than other have in the past, like advising the applications teams to use more efficient coding techniques. I currently have other fish to fry here that leaves me with this project a part time gig between emergencies. (Details available in off line discussions as these duties are not pertinent to IBM-MAIN. Suffice to say, a guy who's first sysprog exposure for real money was in 1982 (last hands on in 2006), I have learned some new non-MF tricks to pass the time.) Thanks everyone for your answers, Peter Duffy LA, CA, USA, Earth On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:33 PM, John McKown <joa...@swbell.net> wrote: > The OP may correct me, but I assumed that what he meant by "single > threaded" > for his CICS transactions was that they were all "old style" and so all ran > on the QR TCB. Which means that only one is actually running instructions > at > a time. As opposed to running his transactions in an OTE environment, where > multiple transactions can run on separate TCBs and thus on separate engines > simultaneously. > > -- > John > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
