Yes this is an issue- some operations teams have never seen a batch job that could not use an initiator and use it NOW... They do not understand the concept that this actually does increase total batch thruput time.
Joe Winterton Release Mgr - OMEGAMON - Development Team 919-224-1328 Cell -914-954-0483 - jose...@us.ibm.com "McKown, John" <jmck...@healthmarkets.com> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> 07/01/2009 09:36 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject How to convince not to over initiate? We are constantly doing this. Especially during month end. Our Production people simply fire up a large number of production initiators and dump a large number of jobs into the system. Does anybody have any __HARD__ studies which show that running the machine a 100% with a lot of jobs basically "swapped out" due to lack of CPU can actually cause a __INCREASE__ in total MSUs used for those jobs versus running fewer at a time? Management here is very much into "reduce MSUs to reduce cost". So, if I can show that running fewer jobs concurrently would reduce cost, then I might have a prayer of getting this changed. Or am I wrong and it doesn't really matter? John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
