Cost Management workloads


BMC AMI Cost Management provides you the opportunity to analyze the work that affects software cost not only at the individual LPARs level, but also on the level of individual jobs, started tasks, and address spaces aggregated into objects called workloads.

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Cost Management provides the following different methods of aggregation:

  • Importance
  • Service Class name
  • Report Class
  • WLM Workload name in WLM Policy
  • Suite
  • Subsystem Address Space (IBM CICS, IBM IMS, IBM Db2, and so on)

Each workload type always corresponds to the total activity in the LPAR. So, different types of workloads always represent, from different perspectives, the same total work performed in an LPAR. This information is derived from RMF and SMF measurement data using proprietary BMC algorithms.

The following table describes each workload type:

Workload type

Description

Importance

Activity is aggregated using Service Class Period Importance from the WLM Policy

Service Class name

Activity is aggregated by Service Class.

Report Class

Activity is aggregated by Report Class

Suites

Suites are user-defined groups of jobs and STC

Note

Suites are defined in UIE directives.

WLM Workload name in WLM Policy

Activity is aggregated according to the workload name in the Workload Manager (WLM) policy

Subsystem address space

Subsystem address space type activity is aggregated by Subsystem Address Types (CICS, CICSUTL, Db2, DB2UTL, IMS, IMSUTL, IRLM, OMVS, MQSeries, WAS)

All other activity is aggregated into workload OTHER_WORK.

Note

You can use a workload filter for Suites, Service Class, and Report Class workloads to reduce the size of the data that is processed.


 

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