Ten moves to reduce costs to make the mainframe a value (1)

According to foreign media informationweek, enterprise users can use the advantages of dedicated processors to select suitable suppliers and continuously optimize performance to reduce and optimize mainframe costs, achieve the goal of "making the best use of things" to make things worthwhile. Specifically, it includes ten things (recommended by BKJIA: after 20 years, it has transformed into an IBM mainframe for strategic transformation ).

IBM System z9 mainframe

1. Use zIIP and VPC to reduce costs

It is exciting that IBM recently launched the coprocessor zIIP and ZAAP engine. Compared with General processors, these processors have lower costs and can support running of certain types of workloads, thus reducing the workload of General processors. More importantly, zIIP processors do not need to pay for software licenses as regular processors do, avoiding additional costs when buying hardware.

2. Reduce the average utilization of MIPS every four hours

Some outsourcing suppliers charge fees based on the average utilization of MIPS every 4 hours. This is what you need to know when you sign a cooperation agreement with the supplier. So how do you reduce the average utilization rate every 4 hours? It is helpful to allocate some special workloads to VPC. You can also allocate some special workloads to off-peak hours. A comprehensive workload automation solution can help you allocate resources more efficiently without affecting the support of other services.

3. Ensure that the service level is not affected

Find software solutions to deliver specific work to a proprietary engine. It is far from enough to allocate them from a regular engine. You can try to ask yourself these questions: Can I still get the desired response time? Can I still access DASD? Are you sure you want to take full advantage of the proprietary processor?

4. The code is king

Find a solution provider with efficient code. Generally, these efficient codes can efficiently complete tasks in the shortest time. The efficiency of well-written code is two to three times that of normal code.

5. Search for products/businesses that can assign certain workloads to VPC Processors

Newly opened IBM mainframe

Highly Efficient vendor tools will help you identify which workloads can be handled by a proprietary processor, or you can also help you to process these jobs by the zIIP engine.