Performance Tuning Service

for Mainframe MIPS

Nurturing Relationships.

*Source: February 2009 Gartner Report MIPS million instructions per second

Enhancing Value.

Isnt Cost Containment at the top of the agenda

for every CIO these days?
Although technology is being relied on to fuel the drive to cut
costs, it comes with a caveat. Modernization initiatives like
Re-engineering & SOA whilst providing long term benefits of
agility, loose coupling, hardware independence etc call for
significant upfront investments as well as long ROIs which
cannot be justified in the after math of the Global Melt Down.
The simple fact of modern-day enterprise IT systems is that
with all the recent technological advances, about 80% of
these IT systems are still running on the legacy platform.

And you thought mainframes gonna go?

The worldwide installed base of IBM mainframe exceeded 14
million MIPS* by the end of 2008 up approximately 20%
from year-end 2007 and roughly double of what it was five
years ago. In the mainframe world, MIPS growth is a good
indicator of actual growth because users pay for systems
based on MIPS capacity and the MIPS growth is based on
incremental MIPS added.

What the CIOs would like is any initiative with minimal risk that
can squeeze more operational efficiencies out of their existing
systems within a few months not in a few years as would be
the case with most of the modernization initiatives.
Let us unbundle the operational costs of a typical mainframe
shop. These are representative only and are given purely to
drive home the point that significant component of the box
costs are linked to the installed MIPS.
Indicates number below
Number of engines/processors :
MIPS per Engine:
Total Available MIPS per year :
Hardware cost per year:
Annual Hardware Spend:
Annual Software Cost + Third Party
AMC + Disk + Tape Costs:
Total Annual Costs:

8
500
4000
$1500
6M$
6M$
1M$
12 M $

So any outcome based MIPS reduction initiative

that can pay for it-self quickly is the need of the
hour!
Thus performance tuning for optimum performance
assumes a new significance not only due to tight economic
conditions, but also due to proliferation of batch jobs,
multiple test environments, sub-systems/shared resources.
Performance management is receiving increased attention
within IT organizations because it offers a means to measure
infrastructure and application health.

It is clear that mission critical systems will continue to run on

Mainframes & organizations will not risk moving these
applications to alternative platforms like UNIX or .Net.
Considering the hardware cost per MIPS is around $1500 to
$3000 per year. For an average MIPS capacity of 2000 MIPS,
the hardware MIPS cost alone will come to WHOPPING $3M
to $6M Dollars annually! A saving of 100 MIPS per year will
translate to a saving of $150,000 K to $300,000 K in dollar
terms.
In light of the above analysis and the single point agenda of
cost containment, MIPS reduction becomes a viable strategy
to reduce the Total Cost of Operation (TCO)

How can CIOs contain costs through performance

tuning?
Are your typical workloads on Mainframe growing 20-30%
every year and you are forced to upgrade once one or two
year. Also in growing business times we missed to analyze
the performance parameters and paying more today.

*Source: February 2009 Gartner Report MIPS million instructions per second

Even a well tuned application can have a performance

problem over a period of time as program and file attributes
change. Performance ignorance reduces application
availability, causes an escalation in costs due to extraneous
processing, surges in batch processing with excessive CPU
utilization and unnecessary job wait time.
Any optimization initiative that uses major design changes
(including functional redesign) and is critically analyzed for
full impact is risk prone. And the optimization through local
program changes to avert structural inefficiencies and
through validation/optimization of environmental factors has
high degree of success achieved in a short time-frame.
Some of the reasons for the high cost of ownership of these
mainframe applications could be due to:
High CPU costs due to
Inefficient code (Poorly structured code)
Inefficient SQL

High DASD costs due to

Redundant data
Poor archiving policies
Batch overruns due to
Jobs in the critical path take enormous amount of time
Contention of files
Excessive IO calls on VSAM
Sample Tuned Charts
CPU Time Gain

Free up critical resources (CPU, DASD) for further expansion

Defer expensive MIPS upgrades
Depending on a particular site and the problems faced, our
team of experts would tune the process to ensure that big
savings are achieved with the lowest amount of effort.
Historical as well current MIPS operational metrics is
collected & analyzed to identify the hotspots. These can be
top O/L transactions or Top Batch jobs or top DB2 packages.
Our representative tuning strategy includes the following
MIPS or CPU Reduction
Batch Window Reduction
On-line Transaction Optimization
Technology Replacement/Exploitation
Critical Path Optimization
Application Optimization
Capacity Planning & Consultancy for current application
performance

Elapsed time Gain

How can CIOs partner with Hexaware to achieve

their objective?
Hexawares ProdTune TM
A comprehensive solution designed for performance
improvement in Applications Management is an ideal solution
for production involving large-scale Online/batch workloads &
data processing environment. The primary objective of this
solution is to:
Provide immediate benefits in terms of ROI, primarily by
reducing MIPS & IO usage
Crunch the batch processing cycles, giving larger window
times
Reduce DB2 MIPS
Improve Online performance

*Source: February 2009 Gartner Report MIPS million instructions per second

Hexawares ProdTune helps client companies bring down their

high MIPS consumption of the hotspots in both their online &
batch work-loads. Hexawares framework design has evolved
with several tuning initiatives it has undertaken for its clients in
the last decade or so through which clients have realized
savings of millions of dollars of operational costs year on year.

Where do CIOs partnering with us stand to

gain?

Key features of the service

It leverages the existing operational management
tools available in the shop
Provides a faster ROI typically in months
Pays for itself from the savings it brings in the
operational costs of the IT organization
There is no inherent risk as the core business logic
of the components are left as is, there are no
fundamental redesign of database
Flexible billing model available to meet the needs to
the customer including an outcome based model
The metrics collected & analyzed provides a basis
for the application management group to provide
application information for on Demand analysis
by various roles developers, business analysts,
managers, directors, auditors & business people

Benefits delivered to the customer

Client

Benefits

A leading asset
management
company in North
America

MIPS savings of $ 781 K

year on year.

Leading Insurance
company in North
America

41% CPU again in the

overall assignment
Saving of $1M+ annual
upgrade

Global Specialty
Insurance Company,
USA

Saved 200 Mainframe

processing hours per
Month

With the following credentials of Hexaware, we believe we are

the right sized IT company to help you manage your
spiraling IT operational costs within a very short time frame.
We work with the credo We are partners in your business.
Proven track record of tuning complex mainframe
applications
Availability of performance optimization experts
Wide spectrum of available legacy skill sets (i.e. COBOL,
DB2, IMS, CICS, PL1, TPF, Focus, VSAM, IDMS, NATURAL,
ADABAS etc.)
Hands-on experience on variety of third party performance
monitoring tools like Omegamon, Strobe, Tritune, IBM PA,
Platinum etc
Ever-growing Optimization Knowledge Repository
Hexawares proven proprietary framework for application
performance tuning ProdTune
In-house developed tool for statistical analysis and reporting
Driven by dedicated mainframe Center Of Excellence (COE)
Low cost, quick ROI operating model
Reach us out at [email protected] to get in
touch with our performance management experts who are
waiting to help you.

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*Source: February 2009 Gartner Report MIPS million instructions per second

Hexaware is a leading global provider of IT and BPO services.

The company has achieved leadership position in domains
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Transportation, Logistics and HR-IT solutions. Hexaware
focuses on delivering business results leveraging technology
solutions and specializes in Business Intelligence & Analytics,
Enterprise Applications, Independent Testing and Legacy
Modernization. Hexaware has been providing business
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