Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Capacity planning overview -- 1.1 Capacity planning introduction -- 1.2 Balancing resources for capacity planning -- 1.3 Traditional steps in capacity planning -- 1.4 Capacity planning methods -- 1.5 Guidelines -- 1.6 Projections -- 1.7 Analytic methods -- 1.8 Discrete methods -- 1.9 Benchmark methods -- 1.10 IBM CP tools used by our technical support team -- 1.11 The RMF overview -- 1.12 CP2000 introduction -- 1.13 CP2000 functions -- 1.14 Balanced systems analysis -- 1.15 Workload power consumption -- 1.16 A system image health check -- 1.17 Workload sample analysis -- 1.18 DASD analysis -- 1.19 Data set analysis -- 1.20 What if... analysis -- 1.21 Projecting the future -- 1.22 Migration to FICON -- 1.23 LSPR analysis -- 1.24 CP2000 summary -- 1.25 Large Systems Performance Reference (LSPR) -- Chapter 2. Performance management -- 2.1 Performance introduction -- 2.2 Performance analysis overview -- 2.3 Performance management -- 2.4 General performance management metrics -- 2.5 Average transaction response time -- 2.6 External throughput rate (ETR) -- 2.7 Resource utilization -- 2.8 Saturation design point (SDP) -- 2.9 Processor performance metrics -- 2.10 CPU time -- 2.11 Cycle time and CPAI -- 2.12 Millions of instructions per second (MIPS) -- 2.13 Path length -- 2.14 CPU service units -- 2.15 Millions of service units per hour (MSUs) -- 2.16 Internal throughput rate (ITR) -- 2.17 LSPR relative processor power (RPP) -- 2.18 I/O performance and metrics -- 2.19 Formulas and laws in performance management -- 2.20 Little's Law -- 2.21 Markov's equation -- 2.22 80/20 rule -- 2.23 80/20 rule and service class periods -- 2.24 Partition's Law -- 2.25 Law of diminished returns (LDR).

2.26 Law of diminished returns (LDR) - continued -- 2.27 Principle of locality -- 2.28 z/OS CPU accounting -- 2.29 z/OS preemptibility -- Chapter 3. Workload Manager -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 WLM constructs -- 3.3 Workload Manager components -- 3.4 Workload classification -- 3.5 Service classes -- 3.6 System-provided service classes -- 3.7 Resource Group -- 3.8 Application environment -- 3.9 Scheduling environment -- 3.10 Sampling unit of work states -- 3.11 Performance Index -- 3.12 PI calculation - average response time -- 3.13 PI calculation - velocity -- 3.14 PI calculation - percentile response time -- 3.15 PI calculation - Discretionary -- 3.16 WLM policy adjustment routine -- 3.17 WLM functions -- 3.18 CPU management -- 3.19 I/O management -- 3.20 Parallel Access Volume -- 3.21 Transactions and management -- 3.22 Enclave management -- 3.23 CPU CRITICAL -- 3.24 Storage critical -- 3.25 Workload routing support -- 3.26 Resource management promotion -- 3.27 Intelligent Resource Director (IRD) -- 3.28 Server address space management -- 3.29 WLM-managed initiators -- 3.30 Resource affinity scheduling -- 3.31 WLM policy definitions -- 3.32 WLM console commands (I) -- 3.33 WLM console commands (II) -- 3.34 WLM references -- Chapter 4. Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) -- 4.1 Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) overview -- 4.2 RMF interface -- 4.3 RMF Monitors -- 4.4 RMF Monitor I -- 4.5 RMF Monitor II -- 4.6 RMF Monitor II ARD report -- 4.7 RMF Monitor III -- 4.8 RMF Monitor III Contention Analysis -- 4.9 Workflow concept in Contention Analysis -- 4.10 PROC and DEV workflow% -- 4.11 RMF Postprocessor -- 4.12 RMF Spreadsheet Reporter -- 4.13 Spreadsheet Reporter - workload utilization -- 4.14 RMF Performance Monitor -- 4.15 RMF enhancements -- 4.16 RMF enhancements - continued -- 4.17 Cryptographic hardware information.

4.18 Cryptographic coprocessors -- 4.19 Reporting delays for the Crypto processor -- 4.20 Coupling Facility duplexing -- 4.21 CF-to-CF activity reporting -- 4.22 Enhanced reporting of IOP utilization -- 4.23 HiperSockets: Client/Server in a mainframe box -- 4.24 RMF enhancement to support HiperSockets -- 4.25 System Management Facility (SMF) -- 4.26 Customizing SMF -- 4.27 Dumping SMF data sets -- 4.28 Dumping selective SMF records -- 4.29 SMF 30 Subtype records -- 4.30 SYSOUT processing - SMF type 6 record -- 4.31 Importance of SMF records -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Back cover.