iSeries Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning

Prerequisites:

Before Taking this course, a student should be able to do the following:

* Use Performance data from WRKSYSSTS display to adjust pool sizes
* Recognise jobs with high resource utilisation on the WRKACTJOB display
* Recognise major factors which could contribute to high faulting rates and resource confilcts
* List the major components of an I-Series job.

-Describe the effect of run priority and timeslice on Job perfromance

This knowledge can be gained by attendance on OS/400 Work Management and Basic Tuning (OL23GB). It is also recommended that this be followed by 3 months practical AS/400 experience.

Course Description:

This 3-day classroom course details both Performance Tools and Capacity Planning to manage workload, resources, performance, and planning and reporting functions.

This course includes the following modules:

Course Content:

• Introduction
• Performance Tools reporting
• Collect, save & analysis performance data
• Perform capacity planning
• System tuning parameters
• Monitoring tools
• Use Operations Navigator & Management Central in a performance tools scenario
• Job & System tuning techniques
• PM/400
• Performance Advisor