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Interactive Response Time 69% - Interactive response time is usually OK, but random slowdowns occur. Can’t find cause – solution appears to be a $100,000 interactive feature card.

Daily GANTT Chart - Interactive

CPU (seconds) by Subsystem

Number of I/Os by Subsystem

Skipped Records by Job/User

Skipped Records by File/Fields

Long Running Batch Jobs 57% - CPU used less than 50%, but batch jobs take a long time & don’t use CPU efficiently. Have been told that a bigger system with more CPU is needed.

Daily GANTT Chart – Long Batch

Temporary Disk Space Jumps 48% - Disk space jumps from 70 to 90%, could be from temp space used by jobs but have not been able to prove which job is doing it.

Disk Navigator – Size of QTEMP by Job

Long Nightly Processing 44% - Night processing runs long, one CL program calls 100s of other programs and it takes 6 hrs to run.

Job Overview – One Process

Job Overview – Several Processes

Application Analyzer – By Program Function

Appli cation Analy zer – By OS/40 0 Functi on

Application Analyzer – Open/Close

Java & JDBC Killing System 43% - New web app uses Java & JDBC, when web lookup pages are hit, user waits 2 minutes. System was fine until new app went live.

QUSRWRK CPU Seconds

QUSRWRK Skipped Records

Waiting for Pick Slips 43% - Overall CPU is only 30% used, yet users wait 6 minutes for pick slips to print. When batched, it takes 45 minutes to start printing, which delays product shipping.

CPU 30% Used, Jobs in Queue

# of Jobs by Job and User

Jobs Waiting in Job Queues

Waiting 250 Minutes, Runs 1 Second

Job Logs Wasting Resources 40% - 500,000 pages of job logs generated every day, logs rarely used, wasting disk space, CPU & I/O.

# of Pages by Queue, Job & User

Job Description & End CodeJob Description & End Code

Mes sage Log ging

Job Runs 30,000 Times 38% - Our batch job runs 30,000 times per day, consumes 1 CPU second each time it runs. Ends up being 30% of CPU consumed, constantly spikes system all day.

CPU by Job Name

# Jobs by Job Name

HA Can’t Keep Up 30% - Journal receivers are 10 GB per day, HA can’t keep up.

Journal Analyze r

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