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IBM Mainframe – CPU Utilization and charging process

Maj4404 — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:59:51 +0000

Hi,

I would like to know the following:

How IBM charges a client for using mainframe? (CPU Utilization or MIPS, rough dollar amount, prime time vs. non prime time and only based on production LPAR CPU usage or charge includes usage of developement and testing community of CPU as well?

Also we have ~750 MIPS mainframe in our client location and currently running on an average of 86% CPU utilization monthly basis. I would like to know how we can increase the MIPS or CPU utilization? Is it just by buying and adding more memory? How much does it cost to buy memory and how much each will add to MIPS and reduce CPU utilization?

Wintel servers to MIPS

Imtnel1 — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:54:29 +0000

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Performance Tracking of Stored Procedures

Pcrum73 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:07:00 +0000

we have a current system where a COBOL stored procedure is called by a .NET application. This COBOL SP then calls multiple COBOL subprograms which perform calculations and update files and then eventually return a value to the .NET app. We have a limitation in tracking the performance of each called subprogram, due to the CPU usage being lumped together for the entire DB2 thread started by the SP. Does anyone know of a way, or a tool that can show the CPU usage of all called programs from the SP?