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"Be Recognized"

Abstract:

In this paper we will report a real user experience.

The initial needs were to consolidate the usage of SAS, a very wide spread and well known suite of software products, reducing its usage onto a single mainframe machine, mostly for cost reasons.

First approach: start of the assessment. We will show all the steps needed to make an assessment of its usage, looking at the consumption, the users and the modules used. SMF analysis using record 30, record 101, record 128 (SAS), SAS Share log. This gave us the definition of the usage, users & results

After the assessment, we performed a capacity planning study to check whether we could afford the consolidation and what workload was going to be affected by the resultant CPU shortage. This gave us the possible scenarios and options that were open to us.

Management decide it's a GO !

Problems & Reporting At the end of story, we will show the results achieved, the expectations for the short future, and the next plans at this site in order to further reduce the costs associates with this product suite.

Evolution & possible scenarios

Danilo Gipponi has been involved in Service Levels and Cost Accounting projects since 1986. After 9 years with SAS Institute and 5 years with BMC, in 2003 he founded EPV Technologies. He is involved in projects aimed at the performance optimisation of z/OS environments. He also performs periodical Capacity Planning activities at many customers' sites in Italy. Danilo Gipponi has been involved in CMG-Italia activities since 1993. He has been president from 2001 to 2004 and is now responsible for International relationships.

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