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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 19, 2021

Enhance description on the number of occurrences

** Context **
My customer consolidated ZWS controller from 20 to 1 for improving operability. With the consolidation, the number of occurrences in one CP became 20 times larger, specifically from 30,000
occurrences per CP to 600,000 occurrences in consolidated one CP. During the testing, the customer found that CPU time and elapsed time of DP batch increases in a quadratic curve. (Refer to the attached file.). As DP batch works as designed, I think the description on the number of occurrences in ZWS manuals should be enhanced to notify the users of the fact in a little more detail.

** Requirement **
1. Enhance description of MAXOCCUM to cover following:
- 9999999 can be specified as the maximum value of MAXOCCNUM but it does not guarantee DP batch performance; its CPU time and elapsed time may not be acceptable.
- As the number of occurrence increases, CPU time and elapsed time of DP batch increases in a quadratic curve.
- DP batch performance highly depends on HW but if the number of occurrences exceeds 200,000, DP batch performance should be verified if its CPU time and elapsed time increases unexpectedly.
- EQQ0972E message is issued when the number of total occurrences reaches the value specified with MAXOCCNUM parameter.

2. Enhance description of parameters other than MAXOCCNUM if required.

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Wolfgang Schäberle
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    Apr 13, 2022

    Delivered in IZWS 10.1

  • Guest
    Reply
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    Jul 19, 2021

    Attachment (Description): Effect of Occurrence Increase on CPU time for CP Extension