BoxScore™ is a suite of programs that shows you the difference in CPU speed and CPU capacity after a hardware change, a software change, a change in LPAR configuration, or a tuning change.
Did I get the CPU I paid for?
Did that software upgrade cost me CPU?
What’s my LPAR overhead?
Did my tuning efforts save any CPU?
GoalTender™ helps you manage WLM goal mode. It implements Cheryl’s WLM analysis methods and shows her recommendations for tuning your service definitions, and through them, your sysplex performance.
Get warnings, advice and recommendations created by Cheryl regarding goal mode best practices appear automatically in GoalTender reports whenever conditions arise to trigger them.
Taken as a whole, they comprise some of the most thorough goal mode documentation available anywhere.
Spark provides the ability to use a common tool set against all SMF record types. While there are already many powerful tools to process SMF data, most of them are designed on the basis that SMF data provides a window into what happened in the past. Most of them also concentrate on a subset of SMF record types, based on their particular area of expertise.
At Watson & Walker we occasionally create or come across small utilities or tools which we think everyone, not just subscribers, should have an opportunity to use. To that end, we’ll place various small utilities and tools on this page, free for the taking.
