z/OS: Workload Based Performance Manager

Course Overview

Introduction to the z/OS Workload Manager and the new RMF Reports. The Workload Manager is a significant improvement to manage your z/OS system and will, therefore, require your involvement as you begin to exploit the new functions of your system.

Audience

All personnel working in the OS/390 or z/OS environment should consider attending. This includes those involved with the major subsystems, such as IMS, CICS and DB2, as well as the MVS performance analyst and performance administrator. Anyone interested in updating their RMF skills with the many new RMF Goal mode workload-related reports will also benefit from attending.

Skills Gained

On completion, you will be able to:

• State how z/OS running in goal mode affects your workloads
• Characterize your workload and define it to its subsystems
• Identify service usage and business needs for your workload
• Classify your work into service classes
• Use the WLM Goal Mode Migration Aid Tool
• Define a WLM Service Definition
• Migrate from WLM compatibility mode to goal mode
• Understand how subsystems interact to the workload manager
• Position Intelligent Resource Director (IRD) to your business needs
• Analyze RMF Workload Management Reports

Prerequisites

• Understand basic MVS / OS/390 / z/OS operation, such as job flow through JES, job scheduling paging, swapping, dispatching controls, I/O scheduling.
• Have a basic knowledge of the purpose of the System Resource Managers function in managing system workloads.
• Use the RMF performance-related reports to identify system performance problems.

or attend:

• An introduction to OS/390 - ES05GB
• OS/390 Facilities - ES15GB
• OS/390 System Services Structure - ES20GB

Course Outline

• WLM Implementation
• WLM Lab
• RMF
• Performance Management
• Checkpoint Exercise
• 6 Case Studies.

You learn to classify your work according to your performance needs. You also begin the initial conversion of your ICS/IPS to the GOAL mode. New RMF reports are also covered to provide you with information on how to use and interpret the reports from your system.

z/OS: Workload Based Performance Manager / ES54GB (ES54GBGB)