Re: BPCS Performance Problems

[Bill Robins <brobins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dwight,

Those CFINTxx are jobs that, for some dubious reasons, IBM felt necessary to
kick off when the interactive workload climbs too high.  I have heard that there
is a company selling a product that will change your interactive jobs
"appearance" to be as if they were batch, and thus you will not be penalized.

Unfortunately, I don't remember anything about the company.  If no one here can
remember, try a posting to Midrange-L.

(Why a server model would be specified in a mixed environment, is beyond my
understanding.  Server models are for non-interactive environments, which yours
is clearly not.)

Bill

Dwight Slessman wrote:

> We are interested if anyone else has had the problem of receiving an AS/400
> sized by SSA that does not perform.  We are running BPCS 6.0.04 in mixed
> mode with about 250 users spread across 6 sites.  The CFINTxx jobs will
> consume upwards of 80% of the total CPU available and bring response times
> up to the 7 minute range.  The AS/400 we were sized at originally is an S20
> model 2177 with 1GB of ram.  We are now being told be SSA that we need an
> S20 model 2178 with 2.5 GB of ram.  Needless to say management is not
> pleased about the additional $100,000 outlay of cash.  I am concerned about
> the new estimate (fool me once shame on you... fool me twice shame on me).
>  Your feedback is welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dwight Slessman
> National Electrical Carbon Products, Inc.
>
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