Determine your optimum MSC link type

You can determine the specific resource requirements of a message by resetting the logical link statistics, sending one typical message, and recording the statistics.

A single message represents an MSC unit of work, and the resulting statistics for the single message represent the resources an MSC unit of work require, such as time, calls, and so forth.

You can also determine the average resource requirements for MSC units of work by sending multiple messages and then dividing the resulting cumulative statistics by the number of messages sent.

After you know how much resources a unit of work requires on a specific link type, if your installation uses multiple physical link types (that is, CTC, MTM, TCP/IP, and VTAM®), you can compare the resource requirements of units of work on each type of link, and then use the link type that utilizes the least amount of resources.