The z/VSE CPU Monitor Tool (CPUMON) is intended to help customers to measure the CPU utilization of their z/VSE system over a period of time. Especially when you plan for a processor upgrade it is important to know the CPU utilization of your z/VSE system over a day or a week. The CPUMON output can be used to estimate the size of the new processor.   You may get the CPUMON output as delimited file (CSV) for use with e.g. Microsoft Excel or as XML file as input to the zCP3000 capacity planning tool. If you wanted to get both formats, you... [More]

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Today IBM announced that Multi-Version Measurement (MVM) replaces Single Version Charging for eligible z/OS and z/VSE software programs. MVM also replaces the Migration Pricing Option (MPO), and the IPLA Migration Grace Period.For z/VSE 6.1 we introduced MPO for products with version changes, that is z/VSE V6 itself, CICS TS for z/VSE V2 and IBM TCP/IP for z/VSE V2. See my MPO blog entry here - or the z/VSE MPO web page here . MPO is limited to 18 month.   The good news is that MVM removes this time limit. That is the only difference... [More]

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