I do have to respond to part of this one as OMEGAMON XE for z/OS 4.2.0 which went GA on 3/6/2009 does exploit the zIIP processor for collection. Should the listserver be used to bake off these products?
Joe Winterton IBM Manager OMEGAMON - R&D Phone 919-224-1328 T/L 687-1328 cellphone - 914-954-0483 - jose...@us.ibm.com Mark Rascoe <mark_ras...@bmc.com> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> 03/11/2009 05:04 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: TMON with OMEGAMON Comparison Overhead concerns. Interesting how OMEGAMON is trying to compare the CPU overhead to MAINVIEW. From my last review of OMEGAMON features and capabilities, OMEGAMON does not exploit zIIPs and MAINVIEW does. In recent customer benchmarks (2009), I have seen where MAINVIEW was offloading more than 50% of its GP cycles to zIIPs. If you compare OMEGAMON and RMF against MAINVIEW and CMF, the number goes up even more. In the IMS arena, OMEGAMON is weak in the type of detailed data it collects, yet MAINVIEW uses the same or less CPU and provides much more detailed data to resolve the issue faster. If you like, I can prove my point. Anyone can talk about how efficient they are, but the reality comes in a quick benchmark. With a benchmark, you can see that MAINVIEW uses less CPU, it?s easier to install, configure and you get a powerful web browser without installing any software in your distributed environment. So, it?s your call. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
