On Thursday, 12/21/2006 at 06:35 EST, Gregg Reed 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd second that. The PTK is great at what it does and while I was doing 
an
> extensive comparison a year ago, it's where I'd point operators and RTM
> familiar folk to, it is a huge upgrade to RTM, but it takes an FMR/not
> working as designed to do anything about.

If you believe or even suspect that Performance Toolkit is giving you 
useless or incorrect information, please contact the Support Center. While 
measuring tape speed in "furlongs per fortnight" might be accurate, it's 
not exactly useful in most situations.  It may be there's a good reason 
for changing the metric.  As my world-famous colleague says, "It depends."

But as Barton said, make your decision about performance products (e.g. 
ESAMON, OMEGAMON, PTK, homegrown) based on your company's goals and needs, 
not on the values of any particular field on any particular report.

But, whatever you choose, CHOOSE!  If all you want to do is kick the 
tires, a speedometer, tachometer, odometer, fuel gauge, oil pressure 
gauge, and thermometer aren't really important.  However, if you're going 
to take her out on the Autobahn and redline it, you gotta have 'em. 
(Otherwise how would you know you're redlining it?  Remember, the CPU 
doesn't make noise as you rev it up.)

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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