zDynaCap at SHARE 2016 in Atlanta
If you are going to SHARE 2016 in Atlanta, follow us on the SHARE App.
Stop by Expo booth #714 to say hello and register for iTunes gift card
giveaways. Learn about our z/OS, DB2 offerings including our products:
(1) zDynaCap <http://www.esaigroup.com/products/esharezdc.htm> product
for guarding SLAs and optimizing the monthly MLC invoice for z/OS, CICS,
DB2 etc.
(2) ICPU <http://www.esaigroup.com/products/isavecpu.htm> a unique CICS
product that lets programmers identify problems and costly, resource
intensive code..
(3) DB2 <http://www.esaigroup.com/products/eshareubs.htm> products like
our hot BCV5 fast refresh/migrate/clone ("I can't believe its done in a
flash!), our Buffer Pool Tuning and SQL Tuning products
(4) XDM <http://www.esaigroup.com/products/eshareubs.htm> our Test Data
Management and Masking product for DB2 z, DB2 LUW, Oracle, SQL Server,
IMS, VSAM...
*Ask the z Pricing & WLM Pro:* Stop by our booth and meet Mr Johannes
Peeters, one of the top z pricing experts. Learn how to meet SLA's at
the lowest cost, leverage Country Multiplex Pricing, Mobile MWP, and
more. Over a decade of experience at diverse customer sites worldwide of
all sizes validate his expertise in IBM pricing models and strategies.
See Mr Peeters of ESAi / zIT Consulting at SHARE session 19536, room
A701 on Monday, August 01, 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM for the topic*z/OS Pricing,
SoftCapping, and Capacity Product Shootout*
<http://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/SHARE/Summer2016/Public/Sessions.aspx?SuperTrackId===2181&==Sessions_summary>
See you there.
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Rob Barbour
Enterprise Systems Associates, Inc ("ESAi")
UCF Research Park
3259 Progress Drive
Orlando, Florida 32826USA
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z Performance... Productivity for DB2... Services...
BCV4 - DB2, SAP, PeopleSoft Clones/Refreshes in Minutes vs Days
BCV5/BCV6 - Save 90% in CPU & Clock Time for DB2 Refresh / Migrate
XDM - Fast Automated Data Movement in/between DB2, LUW, Oracle, etc
ULT4DB2 - Faster, Better Value in DB2 Log Analyzers w/ PROP, & Audit
BPA4DB2 - Save $, Improve DB2 Performance with Buffer Pool Analyzer
XM4DB2 - Proactive Approach for DB2,Performance, & Dynamic SQL
SQLQC - Find, Analyze, Improve SQL Quality Control and Performance
zDYNACAP - Meet SLAs at Lowest MLC Cost with Capacity Balancing
INSPECT-CPU - Improve CICS Application Performance with ICPU
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Re: zDynaCap
Hey Scott, we should talk. I'm working with MVS Solutions now and the latest version of ThruPut Manager can lower caps by reducing actual demand. We control all of the batch so it was just a matter of tracking the 4HRA and some other utilization numbers and making adjustments on the fly. Cheers, JB -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: zDynaCap
I had the opportunity to try out part of the functionality of an earlier version of the product. It has some interesting capabilities that may be useful in some siutations, but it depends on your specific situation. I don't think it's a drop it in and it will magically save you money: you need to understand your workloads, how capping works, what your financial goals are, and how VWLC/AWLC works with the R4H. If you have an ELA with IBM, you also need to understand where you are in that contract relative to your planned-for MLC cap and how much time you have left on the ELA, etc. Basically, it helps you actively manage your R4H value by dynamically modifying the caps. Whether that can help you save money or not depends entirely on your situation. If you're using 100% of the machine every night for 6 hours to get batch done and you absolutely can not delay that workload any then it's not going to help. But if you spike at different times of the month, depending on ad hoc workloads, and there are workloads on the system that may be able to be delayed at that time, then yes it very well may be useful. Also, it *may* be able to help you avoid some of the peaks. Note the emphasis on may. I believe you could write the code yourself to do at least part of what it does via BPCii, but there is something nice about not having to figure that out. At the time that I looked at it, it was a bit on the edge for us as whether it could be cost-justified. I wanted it, but it got nixed for reasons that weren't the fault of the product. That was a little while ago before ESAi picked it up. In short, actively managing your MLC costs by managing your R4H caps can save you substantial amounts of money in specific situations. This is a tool to help you do that active management a little better / easier. Oh, and finally, I was interested in the ability to dynamically/programatically change weights. That wouldn't necessarily save money, but would allow us to better manage which LPARs suffer how much, making it more of a tool to optimize performance within a given financial constraint (i.e. a specific R4H cap). Not surprisingly, opinions are my own, not my employer's and I'm not an active user of the product so take everything with a grain of salt: the product today may be different than the one I looked at several months ago. Scott Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
zDynaCap
My manager requested me to gather some information about a product called zDynaCap from ESAi (Enterprise Systems Associates Inc.). The rep supplied a link for a doc concerning the product. The article was short and not very in depth and claimed it could cut our IBM software costs. Has anyone installed zDynaCap? If so, was the install easy - Security, HMC levels, user interface ... Did the product deliver as adveritised? Was it actually worh it? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
