Managing 5250 CPW dynamically

You can dynamically add, remove, and move 5250 commercial processing workload (5250 CPW) to and from running logical partitions using the Hardware Management Console (HMC).

5250 CPW is the capacity to perform 5250 online transaction processing (5250 OLTP) tasks on IBM® i logical partitions. On certain servers, you can assign a percentage of the total 5250 CPW available on the managed system to each IBM i logical partition. The ability to assign 5250 CPW to IBM i logical partitions is available only for Express Configurations and Value Editions.

5250 CPW can be moved based on the desired, minimum, and maximum percentages you created for the partition profile. The desired 5250 CPW percentage you establish is the amount of 5250 CPW that you get if you do not overcommit the available 5250 CPW. The minimum and maximum values enable you to establish a range within which you can dynamically move the 5250 CPW.

Attention: If resources are moved dynamically, the configuration change is temporary and is not reflected in the partition profile. This means that all configuration changes will be lost the next time the partition profile is activated. If you want to save your new logical partition configuration, you should change the partition profile or save the logical partition configuration to a new partition profile.