
90 Data Sharing in a Nutshell
5.1 Objectives of workload balancing
There are several objectives for using dynamic workload balancing:
Availability The objective is to route incoming work to resources that are
currently active, and to avoid resources that are experiencing
planned or unplanned outages.
Capacity The objective is to route incoming work to resources that
provide the best response time or transaction throughput,
and to avoid resources that are overcommitted
Workload spikes The objective is to allow work to flow to resources added to
handle specific workload spikes without re-coding
applications or changing JCL.
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