Re: A New Performance Model ?

2015-04-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
>Our development management are telling is (Systems & Operations) that >it is "cheaper to Upgrade the mainfame than to have the application >programmers review their code for performance oppurtunities". I'm disappointed in the reactions so far. They're quite...old fashioned. :-( Yes, there is a "n

Re: A New Performance Model ?

2015-04-05 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: > >Our development management are telling is (Systems & Operations) that > >it is "cheaper to Upgrade the mainfame than to have the application > >programmers review their code for performance oppurtunities". > > I'm disappointed in the react

Re: A New Perfromance Model ?

2015-04-05 Thread Joel Ewing
Let me guess, they still didn't bother to add a test for table-size-exceeded to perform a "graceful failure" of the transaction rather than take out the entire CICS region when the increased table eventually proves inadequate; and if just increasing max table sizes greatly increased CPU, then no do

Re: A New Performance Model ?

2015-04-05 Thread Ed Gould
Timothy has some points and some not so valid points. Lets put it one way Timothy works for IBM and as such has an inherent bias about the subject matter. As for my opinion, I think its worth a few bodies (currently employed at your place of business) that are probably senior senior types. I t

Re: A New Performance Model ?

2015-04-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
>Highly skilled development talent takes performance and resource >utilization into consideration during design, development, turning and >testing. Agreed, but only to the degree merited in the circumstances. Highly skilled development talent and management also know where best to allocate their p

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2015-04-05 Thread michealbutz
Hi, will settting SPINRCVY to SPIN allow a CPU to sping endlesssly as leaving out the SPINTIME paramter seem to make it default to 40 seconds if not is there a way to make a CPU keep spining and have z/os take no action thanks -