iSeries (AS/400) Performance - Systems Analysis And Reporting As with all information delivery systems performance plays a key role. However, the various analysis tools and performance adjusters available often do not take into account business requirements or priorities. For example; a Telesales department taking orders from customers and entering them into the system do not want to experience slow response times while the customer is on the phone just because the automatic adjuster has decided a batch job or back office user needs a higher priority or more memory. This service starts with a site visit where we gain not only an understanding of the issues and problems you are facing, but also what your business requires in terms of response times and transaction through-put and what processes are considered high priority. We also collect performance data and other system information, which we take away for analysis. This avoids any additional impact on your system; analysing performance data can be a CPU intensive process. Hardware upgrades are not always the answer, by turning off the indiscriminate automatic adjuster it becomes possible to allocate system resource to high priority business processes, and at the time it is required. Of course achieving better performance is not limited to hardware; often a jobs runtime attributes can greatly influence performance as can system values and the security set-up. Improvements in performance can often be considerable. The report will identify system bottlenecks causing poor performance; propose alternative system configurations that would better meet your business needs, or indeed suggest additional hardware that would improve the systems ability to provide good performance in the areas identified as insufficient. We will also review your default run time attributes, system values and security set-up as these too can have an adverse affect on response times and transaction through-put. The aim of this service is to insure you realise the maximum benefit from your iSeries investment or at very least extend the production life of your current system. Deliverables: • Performance report detailing current system performance identifying
bottlenecks, system set-up or configurations affecting overall performance or
desired performance. Benefits: • Realise the maximum performance from your iSeries investment iSeries Centre - Capacity Planning - Analysis and Prediction |
