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Status Not under consideration
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 13, 2019

Boost up the performance of CTG on ctg.ini (AIX)

Hi Lab, this is our ctg.ini configuration
(CTG Version 9.2.0.2 : Build Level c920-20180312-1735 / AIX 7200-02-02-1810)
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SECTION GATEWAY
closetimeout=30000
connectionlogging=on
cicslogging=off
initconnect=1
initworker=1
maxconnect=600
maxworker=600
maxhttpconnect=100
noinput=off
dnsnames=off
trace=off
workertimeout=30000
adminport=2810
statint=030000
stateod=000000
statsrecording=off

protocol@tcp.handler=com.ibm.ctg.server.TCPHandler
protocol@tcp.parameters=connecttimeout=2000;idletimeout=600000;pingfrequency=60000;port=2006;bind=;solinger=0;
log@info.dest=console
log@error.dest=console

# cicsrequestexit=com.ibm.ctg.samples.ha.FailOverExit

ENDSECTION

SECTION CLIENT = *
TERMINSTLOGGING=N
LOGFILE=/wascell/aslog/common/ctg/CICSCLI.LOG
LOGFILEINFO=/wascell/aslog/common/ctg/CICSCLI.LOG
MAXBUFFERSIZE=32
MAXREQUESTS=256
MAXSERVERS=50
MAXWRAPSIZE=102400
SRVRETRYINTERVAL=30
TERMINALEXIT=EXIT
TRACEFILE=/wascell/aslog/common/ctg/CICSCLI.BIN
ENDSECTION
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Here you are the report txseries/min/max cicsas on the same lpar:

| CP1SAGG5 | 1 | 300 |
| CP1SAGG1 | 7 | 200 |
| CM1SVFG1 | 1 | 15 |
| CM1SAGG1 | 1 | 300 |
| CP1SVGG1 | 1 | 200 |
| CP1SVFG1 | 2 | 100 |
| CP1SVDG1 | 1 | 100 |
| CP1GFVG1 | 3 | 100 |
| CM1GFVG1 | 1 | 10 |
| CM1DGWG1 | 1 | 15 |
| CM1DGAG1 | 1 | 15 |
| CP1DGWG2 | 3 | 100 |
| CP1DGWG1 | 3 | 100 |
| CP1DGAG1 | 6 | 220 |

"lparstat -i" output :

Node Name : ageif700txp001
Partition Name : AGEIF700TXP001
Partition Number : 29
Type : Shared-SMT-4
Mode : Uncapped
Entitled Capacity : 5.00
Partition Group-ID : 32797
Shared Pool ID : 0
Online Virtual CPUs : 7
Maximum Virtual CPUs : 64
Minimum Virtual CPUs : 1
Online Memory : 65536 MB
Maximum Memory : 262144 MB
Minimum Memory : 2048 MB
Variable Capacity Weight : 128
Minimum Capacity : 0.10
Maximum Capacity : 64.00
Capacity Increment : 0.01
Maximum Physical CPUs in system : 64
Active Physical CPUs in system : 64
Active CPUs in Pool : 64
Shared Physical CPUs in system : 64
Maximum Capacity of Pool : 6400
Entitled Capacity of Pool : 5730
Unallocated Capacity : 0.00
Physical CPU Percentage : 71.43%
Unallocated Weight : 0
Memory Mode : Dedicated
Total I/O Memory Entitlement : -
Variable Memory Capacity Weight : -
Memory Pool ID : -
Physical Memory in the Pool : -
Hypervisor Page Size : -
Unallocated Variable Memory Capacity Weight: -
Unallocated I/O Memory entitlement : -
Memory Group ID of LPAR : -
Desired Virtual CPUs : 7
Desired Memory : 65536 MB
Desired Variable Capacity Weight : 128
Desired Capacity : 5.00
Target Memory Expansion Factor : -
Target Memory Expansion Size : -
Power Saving Mode : Dynamic Power Savings (Favor Performance)
Sub Processor Mode : -

In order to boost up the performance(at least duplicate the performance/capacity of CTG), we asking to suggests us how to tune this parameters

Thanks for your time,
Nicola.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
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    Nov 19, 2019

    As discussed over mail, this RFE item is not qualified as RFE item. RFEs are usually for new functionality enhancements. The requirement mentioned in this RFE can be done as Health Check. We can have an internal call for discussing more on health check.