Understanding Workload Manager (WLM)
Mainframe Training Overview
This class is a lecture-workshop for experienced systems programmers and performance analysts with a focus on WLM controls and operation. The course will explore the decision-making processes employed by WLM and how they can be monitored and evaluated.
This class is intended for experienced systems programmers and performance analysts with a basic understanding of WLM definitions
3 days
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Service class definitions
Importance levels
Execution velocity
Response time goals
Performance Index
Classification rules
Setting exception conditions
Resource groups
CPU/storage critical settings
Service coefficients and options
Service coefficients
I/O priority management
Dynamic alias management
Applications environment
Specifying and managing application environments
Server limits for application environment
Scheduling environments
Specifying scheduling environments
Managing resource states
WLM managed initiators
Intelligent Resource Director
LPAR CPU Management
Dynamic Channel Path Management
Channel Subsystem Priority Queuing
Workload licensing limits
SMF type 99 records
