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So, Fast400 has now come out with FastACT which is an interesting twist on WRKACTJOB. http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/nwn/story.cfm?ID=14780 As Big Blue fumes over the relaunch of governor-busting Fast400, the product's worldwide distributor, Storage Solutions, decided to throw a sidekick into the mix. Its latest FastAct product ousts the Work with System Activity (WRKSYSACT) command on iSeries -- allowing users to track performance for $500 rather than the going rate of $10,000 for IBM's own performance tools. The iSeries WRKSYSACT command lets users work interactively with jobs and tasks running in the system. They view the data on the display station and can store the data in a database file for future use. The complementary command, Work with Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB), lets users then work with performance and status information for the active jobs in the system. What distinguishes FastAct from the IBM original -- besides the price tag -- is that the product shows exactly how much system CPU is being eaten up by the CFINT interactive tax. "CFINT is a system task that doesn't show up on WRKACTJOB," says Colin Wells of Storage Solutions. "When [users] exceed [the] allotted green-screen CPU, CFINT grows and monopolizes CPU so other jobs cannot use it. FastAct will show what tasks are using CPU on [the] system." In that sense, the latest product in the "Fast" family demonstrates to proponents and skeptics alike that Fast400 is doing its job, Wells says. "Our customers have asked for a simple way to cost- justify Fast400," he says. "The development group responded with FastAct." He recommends all disbelievers conduct a "before and after" trial run. "Simply use FastAct before starting Fast400 and look at the CPU being used by CFINT," he says. "Then start Fast400 and watch the CPU being used by CFINT drop to a very small percentage." A FastAct demo is available each day between 9 and 11 a.m., based on the time set on your system clock, from http://www.fast400.net . -- Jill R. Aitoro, Industry Reporter, iSeries Network
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