IBM i Performance Tuning - I: IBM i Structure, Tailoring and Basic Tuning

Day 1

• Introduction/class administration
• Unit 1 - Work management
  • Exercise 1 - Job and subsystem information
• Unit 2 - Creating a work environment
  • Exercise 2 - Creating your own subsystem description
  • Exercise 3 - Special work management functions

Day 2

• Unit 3 - Shipped system objects
  • Exercise 4 - System values and network attributes
• Unit 4 - Job structure and execution logic
• Unit 5 - Storage management
• Unit 6 - System tuning
• Summary

This is an intermediate course is designed for data processing managers, programmers, and analysts.

You should be able to:

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• Start and stop the operating system
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• Start and stop subsystems
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• Manage job, message, and output queues
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• Describe security concepts and create user profiles
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• Manage jobs by:\n
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  • Setting the appropriate system values
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  • Modifying subsystem descriptions to fit the workload
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  • Controlling batch jobs
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  • Tailoring job descriptions to fit processing needs
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• Create unique environments for running jobs by:\n
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  • Creating subsystems for special applications
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  • Directing jobs to run in these subsystems
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  • Developing job descriptions for special jobs
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• Tune the performance of the system by:\n
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  • Setting up pools and activity levels to handle jobs
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  • Tailoring execution parameters for job priorities
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  • Evaluating current performance using information provided by the system
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  • Changing system values and parameters as the workload changes
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