EPV TECHNOLOGIES NEWSLETTER April 2018

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1 EPV TECHNOLOGIES NEWSLETTER April 2018 TECH PAPERS WLM and Container Pricing - Part 2 TECH NEWS IBM ztechnical University 2018

2 TECH NOTES EPV for MQ V14 entered MA TECH SUPPORT New MIPS tables including z14 ZR1 TIP OF THE MONTH When you arrange a meeting you have always to remember that its usefulness will be inversely proportional to the number of participants TECH PAPERS WLM and Container Pricing - Part 2 In the last years WLM has been more and more involved in the many mechanism invented by IBM marketing people to provide ways to mitigate the z/os environment software costs. They started with the specialty engines (zaap and ziip) where WLM was marginally involved. The next steps were the 4-hour rolling average mechanism and the soft capping technique implementation where WLM started playing a fundamental role in major software (e.g. z/os, CICS, IMS, and Db2) cost control. In 2014, IBM introduced Mobile Workload Pricing: a new pricing model designed to mitigate the impact of mobile workloads on subcapacity license charges and provide a more cost-competitive software. The initial implementation was too complex for the customers to manage so it was not very successful. After a couple of years, IBM provided a much easier implementation of this pricing option involving WLM. At the end of 2017, IBM announced Container Pricing. Container Pricing makes pricing simpler and more economical for qualified solutions. It's a framework for hosting simplified and flexible software pricing for qualified solutions running on the z13

3 and z14 IBM processors, and allows specific workloads to be metered, reported on, and optionally capped, whether on a dedicated LPAR or colocated with existing workloads on an existing LPAR with no direct impact on your 4 Hour Rolling Average. The last part of the above sentence is the real innovation. With Container Pricing you may run qualified solutions, inside a logical container in the same LPAR where traditional workload run, and have a separate, lower price for the workload inside the container, without any direct impact on traditional workload pricing. The burden of managing co-located qualified solutions is again charged to WLM. Unfortunately, the technical implementation in WLM is, in this case, more complex and invasive. In this paper, after a short description of the Container Pricing options, we will focus on the new WLM definitions required to manage and measure co-located workloads and on some issues that customers should be aware of. Finally, we will discuss the most relevant new metrics available and some examples of the modifications to the existing reports that will be needed. If you want to receive the paper you can reply to this writing "WLM and Container Pricing - Part 2" in the subject TECH NEWS IBM ztechnical University 2018 The European IBM ztechnical University will be held on May in London, UK. EPV will contribute with the following presentations: Measuring new z/os functions; Tue 11:30-12:30; room Chalon z14 Capacity Planning: theory and practice; Wed 11:30-12:30; room Chalon More details and full agenda available at: pagetype=page&c=c038363t42486i39

4 TECH NOTES EPV for MQ V14 entered MA EPV for MQ v14 is now in Managed Availability so it can be installed under EPV Technologies control. It includes: z14 support EPV for MQ fully supports z14 machines. New MIPS tables are provided including benchmarks for all the available models. MIPS tables for ziip have also been added to allow users to easily set the appropriate ziip capacity for their configuration. MQ V8 and V9 full support New metrics have been added to support new MQ performance measurements, such as: > Additional SMF metrics for logging analysis, > Pageset statistics, > Channel Initiator statistics, > Channel Initiator accounting Usability enhancements All the standard enhancements introduced in EPV V14 products; the most relevant of them is the availability of the conditional formatting function. 40 new views If you want to install EPV for MQ V14 please write to TECH SUPPORT New MIPS tables including z14 ZR1

New EPV MIPS tables including z14 ZR1 machines are already available. EPV customers who want to receive the new tables in advance can get them by simply sending an email to EPV support.

5 New EPV MIPS tables including z14 ZR1 machines are already available. EPV customers who want to receive the new tables in advance can get them by simply sending an to EPV support. RECIPES TORTINO DI PATATE CON HUMMUS DI FAVE Ingredients 500 g of shelled broad beans 300 g of white-fleshed potatoes 1 teaspoon of baking powder 1 yolk 20 g of rice flour 1 spring onion 30 g of almonds with the peel 1 lemon 2 sprigs of mint extra virgin olive oil black pepper salt

6 Method Arrange 400 grams of beans in a saucepan with cold water, bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes. Drain them, let them cool and remove the white skin that covers them. Wash the potatoes, peel, dice and cook them for 10 minutes. Let them cool, mash with a fork and mix with the sifted yeast, the rice flour, the yolk, the sliced and sliced spring onion, a pinch of salt and a pinch of pepper. Blend the beans with the juice of half a lemon, a pinch of salt, 2 tablespoons of oil and the leaves of a sprig of mint. Heat a non-stick pan, grease it slightly, form 4 compact cupcakes with the potato mixture and cook 3-4 minutes per side. Serve hot with the broad bean purée, coarsely chopped almonds, the remaining raw broad beans and a few leaves of mint. QUOTES

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EPV TECHNOLOGIES NEWSLETTER August 2018

EPV TECHNOLOGIES NEWSLETTER August 2018 TECH PAPERS Controlling z/os job delays at a glance with MyEPV Quick View TECH NEWS EPV User Group 2018 Agenda, event and dinner TECH NOTES Getting Started with