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z/OS RMF spec sheet (flyer)

Performance management for z/OS single system and sysplex environments



 Highlights
 The four components of RMF
 Productivity, growth and investment protection
 What's new in RMF for z/OS V1.9
 What's new in RMF for z/OS V1.8
 What's new in RMF for z/OS V1.7
 What's new in RMF for z/OS V1.6
 What's new in RMF for z/OS V1.5
  RMF at a glance

What's new in RMF for z/OS Version 1 Release 6
Enhanced Enterprise Disk Systems Support
The ESS Statistics Postprocessor report now contains two new sections, Extent Pool Statistics and Rank Statistics, to support the IBM TotalStorage® DS family. Also new response and transfer statistics are available with the Cache Activity report:
  • At the subsystem level in the Cache Subsystem Activity report
  • At the volume level in the Cache Device Activity report.

In addition, RMF provides new overview conditions for the Postprocessor based on SMF records 74-5 and 74-8.

Support of the IBM eServer zSeries Application Assist Processor
z/OS V1.6 provides the ability to run Java™ applications on a new type of processor called the IBM eServer zSeries® Application Assist Processor (zAAP).

The zSeries Application Assist Processor is also known as an IFA (Integrated Facility for Applications).

RMF provides measurements of IFA processor activity in the following reports:

  • Postprocessor:
    • CPU Activity report and its Partition Data section
    • Workload Activity report
  • Monitor III:
    • CPC Capacity report
    • Enclave report
    • System information (SYSINFO) report

Also, RMF provides measurements for zAAP processor activity by enhancing the following tables:

  • Monitor III VSAM data set support:
    • ERBASIG3
    • ERBENCG3
    • ERBUWDG3
  • Monitor III data reporter tables:
    • ERBENCT3
    • ERBPRCT3
    • ERBSYST3

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