WKL (UIE/VM)

Purpose

If you are not satisfied with the default UIE/VM workload assignment rules (a separate workload for each of the top 10 VM userids in terms of CPU utilization), use the WKL command to do any of the following actions:

Aggregate several VM userids into a single workload
Give the workload a more meaningful name and, if necessary, a workload category

Syntax

WKL <name> GUEST=<Y/N> ETRANS=<ETRANS> ID=<ID_LIST>

Syntax explanations

The GUEST subparameter can have the values: Y or N. This parameter identifies whether or not the workload contains a guest operating system.
ID_LIST is a comma-separated list of VM userids (for example, FTP01, FTP02).
ID_LIST can contain a wildcard character ( * ) . For example, if you specify SYS*, all users beginning with the letters SYS are included in the workload.
Use the ETRANS command to override the number of ended transactions for the workload per hour that was determined from the Monitor data.

Rules

If GUEST is not specified, it is assumed that the workload is not a GUEST operating system.
ETRANS should be specified for GUEST operating systems.
Each workload must have a unique name.
UIE/VM uses WKL commands in the following manner:
- While reading the command file, UIE/VM analyzes the syntax of all commands and stores each WKL command with its parameters sequentially in the same order that they are encountered in the command file.

- During VM Monitor data processing, UIE/VM analyzes each element of data and tries to match it with the workload definitions in the order that they were specified in the command file. As soon as a particular data element matches a workload definition, WKL NAME is assigned and UIE/VM continues to analyze the next data element.

Example

If a command file contains the following commands:

WKL ABC IDS=LINUX01 GUEST=Y ETRANS=3600
WKL DEF IDS=SYS*,OPERATOR,L*

LINUX01 is placed into workload ABC (and not in DEF).