September 1999
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
8h 19m
English
Mainframe administrators and system programmers are familiar with the resource and workload management facilities provided by IBM Workload Manager (WLM). WLM is a comprehensive tool set that provides an automated resource management environment, driven by high-level business goals, and that, in many cases, is self tuning. Tools are provided to define the business goals or objectives, to control system resources, and to feed metrics concerning these resources back to the resource controller, which attempts to ensure that the goals are met. This is an implementation of the measure/policy/control loop described in “Resource Management Control Loop” .
Historically, IBM has been driven by the same needs that ...
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