how to find the cpu utilization in OS/390 machine?

sathish kumar · New User Joined: 06 Jul 2004 Posts: 9 Location: chennai

Hi

How to find the CPU utilization in OS/390 Machine?

If there is any command to display the cpu utilization.

help me friends
sathish

priyesh.agrawal · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:32 pm

Hi Sathish,

Cant we see it in S.DA....

There is a column CPU% showing the jobs involving CPU.

Regards,

Priyesh.

spanda · New User Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 48 Location: U.K.

For active jobs, the CPU time utilised may be seen on the DA panel of SDSF, under the CPU% column (as already said by priyesh). For completed jobs, the CPU usage can be seen in the JESMSGLG dataset at the bottom of the data. The message normally appears with the words 'JOB END' followed by the job name and the job parameters.

Hope this helps.
Panda.

Ravi gaur · New User Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 38

There are lot of ways to know the CPU utilisation.

One of them is RMF..

If you want long Performance report of CPU use Postprocessor of RMF.

for this u need to collect record type 70:78 of smf which are RMF type..

Let me know If you need anything else.

These days i m working on the same project

sundayblooms · New User Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 4 Location: India

Hi ravi , can you tell me how do we switch on the record types in SMF

kcs4u2004 · New User Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 56 Location: Chennai

I want a email once the cpu utilization reaches 90%..can anybody please help me on this regard..
Thanks in advance..it wud be of great help to us and wud be highly appreciated..

Thanks..
KCS

expat · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:55 am

PeD · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:56 am

Try this ( I will not code all of your tool )

expat · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:08 pm

Thanks PeD,

Just cut and pasted that one

Fancy a beer one evening ?

PeD · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:15 pm

Why not, with pleasure, the unique problem is I am based at Braine.
But when I "have" to come to Brussels I will drop you a note.
Still at Fortis ......BNP........?

expat · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:21 pm

Yeah, drop me a note and I'll happily buy you a beer or three

kcs4u2004 · New User Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 56 Location: Chennai

if the cpu utilization is close to 100% i.e some jobs are taking all the cpu resource,so that other jobs are not getting processed..we have some time dependent jobs,hence if the jobs will not get processed accordingly in time we will get a major(severity issue)..hence if we will get an eamil once it reaches more than 95%,so that we can be alert that something may go wrong adn will ask the operation to HOLD the job manually so that it wont be abended..
Hence need the code for an alert email if cpu utilization is more than 95%

expat · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:40 pm

It sounds to me that your system needs adjustment to allow higher priority jobs to be given the required resources when cpu utilisation is heavy.

Why fight the fire when you can put it out sooner

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:25 pm

Most good shops always run about 95 to 100%,
otherwise they are paying for hardware that they are not using.

they have people in capacity planning and operations that know their jobs,
are proficient,
and with the proper input from departments
are able to plan and implement the necessary priorities
as well as scheduling
to accomplish this.

putting out fires in a poorly planned/managed environment
is a never ending task.
it is impossible when everyone is sitting around
using resources to monitor the system
using resources to generate eMails - that may or may not be read -
to request that tweaks be made to assure that their application runs.

this is typical bureaucratic nonsense.
instead of doing their job in the first place,
they figure out how to cya.

Robert Sample · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:54 pm

Your problem is not that you need an email when CPU utilization exceeds 95% (or whatever arbitrary number you want to use). Your problem is that your Workload Manager (WLM) policy is not set up correctly to recognize the time sensitive jobs. You need to work with your site support group to update the WLM policy.

Furthermore, your site should already have the tools in place to handle this issue without adding to the system overhead by putting in an email notification -- your scheduling package should be flagging jobs that are late and the operators should be adjusting priority processing to get the work complete. If this is not happening, it's not a technical issue to address by a technical solution, it is a management problem that needs management attention.