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Status Planned for future release
Workspace z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 11, 2022

Improve PFA_WLM_ADDR_SPACE_VELOCITY reporting

When CPU resources become constrained in a CEC and there are smaller/less-important LPARs in the same CEC as other higher-importance LPARs, WLM will favor the larger/more important LPARs and starve the other LPARs for CPU. In turn, this can starve even high importance address spaces in those smaller/less important LPARs and cause them to have a lower-than-normal velocity. At that point, PFA will notice that those same address spaces are failing to achieve their normal velocity, which then causes PFA to report an exception to the PFA_WLM_ADDR_SPACE_VELOCITY Health Check. And although this is a potential issue, it's a "larger" problem than just something happening in that LPAR and PFA has no way to know that this is not so much a problem with address space velocity as it is an overall CPU resource constraint. And in some cases, this can happen all too frequently and the Check becomes useless because of all the "false positive" alerts. I presume that something similar can happen in cases of a capped LPAR or if CPU utilization in an LPAR is at or near 100% busy. It would be helpful if some intelligence could be added to the Check such that it could identify cases like this and potentially not report an exception for an address space velocity problem when there is clearly something else going on. Unfortunately, this Check effectively became the "boy that cried wolf" and we have had to silence it in our environment, so the Check provides no value to us as it currently exists.

Idea priority Medium