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.