Generating monthly mobile workload reports

You are responsible for collecting and retaining the source data for the mobile workload transactions that are used in monthly reporting. IMS supports two methods of data collection and reporting with the Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT).

The mobile workload transaction reports must consist of general-purpose processor CPU seconds for each mobile transaction program summarized by hour by LPAR for all machines that are processing mobile transactions. Mobile workload reporting requires that the mobile CPU consumption reports are submitted each month.

IMS provides two methods of data collection and reporting to identify the CPU time that is used by each MWP Defining Program that is processing mobile workload transactions: with the WLM classification rules or with the original CSV files.

Note: Depending on local legislation and policy, the SMF records and mobile workload transaction data might be required to be retained for a certain period of time after the billing period for auditing purposes.

Generating reports with the WLM classification rules

You can use the WLM classification rules to identify mobile workload transactions. The parameters that are used for WLM mobile pricing support, CPUTIME, TIMEONCP, and OFFLOADONCP, enable WLM to accumulate the mobile workload transaction CPU time in the LPAR during the predefined interval. The CPU time is stored in the SMF type 70 record. The workload activity information for each service class or report class is stored in the SMF type 72 subtype 3 record.

Follow the procedure to generate reports with the WLM classification rules:
  1. Track mobile workload transactions by defining new classification rules.
  2. Export and load the SMF type 72, type 70, and type 89 records into SCRT each month.
  3. Run SCRT Version 23 Release 13.0 or later and submit the results to IBM for each sub-capacity reporting period.
Figure 1. Generating workload reports with WLM classification rules
Workflow for generating workload reports with WLM classification rules

Generating reports with the CSV files

In cases where WLM classification rules for mobile workload transactions are not available, you are responsible for preprocessing your mobile workload transaction data into a predefined format to be loaded into SCRT for each sub-capacity reporting period. The data must consist of general-purpose processor CPU seconds for mobile workload transactions that are summarized by hour by LPAR for all machines that process mobile workload transactions.

For MWP Defining Programs that use the original CSV file method of data collection, follow the procedure to generate reports:

  1. Track mobile workload transactions, including CPU seconds, per program on an hourly basis per LPAR.
  2. Use the MWP command of IBM Transaction Analysis Workbench for z/OS to produce a comma-separated value (CSV) file. The CSV file must contain mobile workload transaction CPU consumption each month for each program.
  3. Load the resulting data files along with the SMF type 70 and SMF type 89 records into SCRT each month.
  4. Run SCRT Version 23 Release 13.0 or later and submit the results to IBM for each sub-capacity reporting period.