WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Lizette Koehler
List - I am just starting down the road to understanding WLM and how it is setup at my shop. I am a little confused as to why they are doing what they are doing and am looking for some input. Here they have elected to place everything into separate buckets. I should say that they

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... List - I am just starting down the road to understanding WLM and how it is setup at my shop. I am a little confused as to why they are doing what they are doing and am looking for some input. Here

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Lump DB2s together or give them separate Service and Report classes? The current thought is it gives them a better idea of how the work is flowing. I am not so sure due to my limited knowledge of WLM at this time. I would lump them all in one service class and use separate report classes for

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 07:40:28 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is - What is the bettert approach. Lump DB2s together or give them separate Service and Report classes? The current thought is it gives them a better idea of how the work is flowing. I am not so sure due

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 08:31:53 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure most if not all of this has been covered many times. Hit the archives, read the Redbook(s). To summarize: Use as few service classes as you can to separate the work and as many report classes as you like / need

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 7/3/2007 8:32:27 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sure most if not all of this has been covered many times. Hit the archives, read the Redbook(s). To summarize: Use as few service classes as you can to separate the work and as many report

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Norman Hollander on h-WiZ.biz
There appears to be multiple questions in this one little thread. The following is what I generally recommend for many of our large customers. Your Mileage will vary. 1. If you are lucky enough to have 70 million identical transactions running on your system, and they all have a SLA of 100%

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 08:56:28 -0700, Norman Hollander on h-WiZ.biz wrote: ... If you are like most other sites, with different transactions with different SLAs, and the potential for the work to grow, I'd still recommend Transaction Goals. Since you can set it up by region(s), it

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Staller, Allan
snip As a result, you may find that your not loved transactions will go along for the ride, based upon the other transactions that are processed by the server regions. /snip Isn't that the whole point? If the loved ones are not happy, no one is happy. If the loved ones are happy, everyone is

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:54:27 -0500, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Discretionary is good too. I even used discretionary for the third period TSO that Mark referred to. Ditto! -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Norman Hollander on h-WiZ.biz
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 SYSN 10:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: WLM Setup Question On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:54:27 -0500, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Discretionary is good too. I even used discretionary for the third period TSO that Mark

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Norman Hollander on h-WiZ.biz
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 SYSN 10:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: WLM Setup Question snip As a result, you may find that your not loved transactions will go along for the ride, based upon

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:49:50 -0700, Norman Hollander on h-WiZ.biz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be sure your durations are properly set so only those SPUFI/FOCUS/SAS folks running in the foreground (I think these are best served as Batch) are impacted by transitioning to 3rd (or last) period with the

Re: WLM Setup Question

2007-07-03 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:18:56 -0500, Staller, Allan wrote: As a result, you may find that your not loved transactions will go along for the ride, based upon the other transactions that are processed by the server regions. Isn't that the whole point? If the loved ones are not happy, no one is