Understanding Country Multiplex Pricing reports
This topic describes general information about how to analyze the MLC Product family data in a Monthly Summary report that is based on Country Multiplex Pricing.
A Monthly Summary report with CMP provides data that you can use to:
- Verify that the Multiplex Peak MSUs are lower than or equal to the sum of the individual CPC First Peak MSUs
- Determine which workloads are making contributions to the Multiplex peak
How to determine which workloads are contributing to the Multiplex peak
By clicking on the R4HA MSU Utilization chart for the MLC Product family, you can access a report for all CPCs that contains hyperlinks to the Workload Reports. For this example, assume that you clicked the z/OS All family chart to display the following information:
Figure: Sample Monthly Summary Report - Workload Report links
The Workload Report links are located in the lower left of the console. The Workload Reports can provide insight into which workloads contributed to the multiplex peak that determined the cost for the month.
Clicking the Workloads by Importance link displays the corresponding report:
Figure: Sample Workload by Importance report
In this example, the charting area displays the contribution of Imp5 across all CPCs in the Multiplex (shown in blue); the chart also shows the 4HRA MSU utilization across all CPCs for the selected MLC Product Family or MLC Product Version (indicated by the grey line). By hovering the mouse over the multiplex peak interval (indicated by the red dot), you can determine the MSU utilization for the Imp5 workload. Significantly, the workload of least importance contributed to over 60% of the total peak value that determined the cost.
By clicking the tabs and examining the other reports, you can analyze and identify all of the workloads that contributed to the peak utilization interval. From this type of analysis, you can get a clear picture of which workloads contributed to the multiplex peak that determined the cost.