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Be prepared to provide additional z/OS CPU capacity when the workload’s CF operations
become duplexed. Provide sufficient coupling facility CP resources so that coupling facility
CP utilization remains below 50% in all CF images.
Provide “balanced” coupling facility CP capacity between duplexed pairs of CFs. Avoid
significant imbalances such as one CF with shared CPs and the other CF with dedicated
CPs, CFs with wildly disparate numbers of CPs, CFs of different machine types with very
different raw processor speed, and so forth.
As z/OS-to-CF and CF-to-CF distances increase, monitor the coupling facility link
subchannel and path-busy status. If more than 10% of all messages are being delayed on
the CF ...