Another place to look is at the Service Class definition that your Zowe
tasks fall into. There is a fairly new Service Class parameter(z/OS 2.4?)
called 'Honor Priority' which can take one of two values: DEFAULT which
means that it takes the setting from IEAOPTxx( IIPHONORPRIORITY=YES in your
case) or NO which means do not consume GCP cycles if your ZIIPs are
saturated



On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 09:31, Sebastian Welton <
[email protected]> wrote:

> This actually came up in a Watson & Walker Tuning Newsletter some time ago
> and basically there is a special aspect of the workload manager (WLM)
> service class goal of “discretionary.” If a zIIP exists and the workload is
> zIIP-eligible and in a discretionary service period, the workload is
> dispatched only on zIIP processors even if CPs are idle. For example, if
> you are running z/OSMF with your zPDT system that has 3 CPs, you see a
> specific period for z/OSMF start. Then, if you add a zIIP, the z/OSMF start
> takes much longer because much of z/OSMF is dispatched only to the single
> zIIP processor. This situation occurs for any application that has large
> amounts of zIIP-eligible code.
>
> Sebastian.
>
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 16:21:06 +1100, Attila Fogarasi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >The obvious explanation is that your zowe workload doesn't have more
> active
> >threads than zIIPs most of the time.  Note that not all of zowe is zIIP
> >eligible, most of the CLI and APIML are zIIP eligible.  Much of the CLI is
> >single threaded per client and sounds like you have few clients for zowe.
> >As an aside, on zPDT its probably faster to run with no zIIP as the
> >emulation gives no advantage to zIIP and just pollutes the x86 cache.
> >
> >On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM Colin Paice <
> >[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> I am running Zowe on my zPDT system.
> >>
> >> The ZIIPS are running flat out ( with waits for ZIIPS) but the GCPs are
> >> pretty idle.
> >>
> >> Ive  IIPHONORPRIORITY=YES which says use GCP if shortage of ZIIP.
> >>
> >> Is there anything else I should be looking at?
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
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