Driving the workload

The process of sending work into the CICS® regions is commonly referred to as driving the workload. The system under test is on a separate LPAR in the same sysplex. All network traffic is routed by way of a coupling facility from one LPAR to the other.

The IBM® Workload Simulator for z/OS® (Workload Simulator) tool is used to send work into the CICS regions from multiple simulated clients concurrently. For more information about Workload Simulator, see the IBM Workload Simulator for z/OS and OS/390 product page.