I’ve written about workload groups in the past in Workload Group Configuration with IBM i 7.3 and Manage Workloads better with Workload Groups.
This blog reviews how to understand possible performance implications when using workload groups.
(more…)I wrote about workload groups some time ago in Manage Workloads Better with IBM i 7.1. The information in that older article is still accurate, and I’m not going to repeat a lot of what I wrote there. If you have not yet used workload groups, you may want to read the older blog for additional information on why workload groups are useful.
(more…)In a 2010 7.1 announcement, there was a one-sentence statement that I thought would be good to expand upon:
IBM i 7.1 workload management enhancement enables clients to limit to the number of cores on which a selected workload can run concurrently.
So what is this, why would you want to use it and how do you get it?
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