Resource engg as a "capacity planner"

sarvagya Bhardwaj · New User Joined: 10 Mar 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Delhi

Hi ,
I am new to the mainframe world ... can you guys tell what is the future if i have started with resource engg as a "capacity planner" ?

prem_ibm · New User Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 31 Location: Chennai

Hi sarvagya Bhardwaj

Can you please elobrate some more about u r job responsibility and core areas of Mainframe in which u r working so will get more calrity to explain about the career in Mainframes

Thanks

expat · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:55 pm

Capacity planner (usually Performance & capacity planner) is monitoring how much resource is being used by the processing being performed at the site.

It depends on how involved you get, but when I performed this task it involved breaking down tasks by account codes to charge users for resource consumed, Tape & DASD comsumation and projected purchase reqs, projecting when a more powerful CPU was required, analysing processing I/O bottlenecks on hardware and/or channels, other reasons why jobs take so long and how can they be improved, and a whole load of other interesting things too.

I was lucky in that it was a forward thinking and planning company with lots of interesting things to do.