Policy Advisor

The Policy Advisor view provides support to analyze a WLM service definition that has collected SMF performance measurements while your service policy was active. It presents miscellaneous graphics which compare your definition with actual performance data and gives advice on potential improvements for unfavorable goal settings.

You can open the Policy Advisor view from the Workload Management task to examine your WLM service definition for potential error-prone policy definitions and get recommendations on goal and importance level settings based on selected SMF performance data.

Key features

The Policy Advisor view provides support to analyze a WLM service definition:
  • Detailed analysis and data visualizations for proactive problem identification and prevention.
  • Assistance with best practice recommendations for service definitions.
  • Simplification of WLM policy definition tasks.

For more information about WLM or workload management concepts, see z/OS MVS Planning: Workload Management.

Getting started

You can start the Policy Advisor in two ways from the Workload Management task:
  • In the Analyze section of the Overview tab, click Policy Advisor. The service definition that contains the active service policy opens in the Policy Advisor view.
  • Navigate to the Service Definitions tab. Select a WLM service definition from the table. Click the Actions menu, and select Open Policy Advisor.

The Policy Advisor opens to the Data tab, which displays the WLM service definition name and a details table.

Important: To use the full capabilities of the Policy Advisor, you must load a z/OS data set containing SMF type 72 subtype 3 performance data that belongs to one of the policies contained in the service definition. For more information, see Data tab.