Re: metrics for determining health of an AS/400's IT department

[Mike Berman <mikeba777@xxxxxxxxx>]

Check PTF's are in sync and uptodate. Check for files that haven't been in use. 
Check for User profiles. 
Priority of what you're doing should be Security first.

Clare Holtham <Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

Number of scheduled jobs and menu options doesn't tell you how
organized/disorganized they are, just how complex their system is! You could
maybe look at what stuff they have in QGPL, what there is on disk that
hasn't been used recently, if there are many queries that do similar things
in different places, how frequently they clear outqs and reorg files, etc.
Broken links are indicative too - programs that don't go anywhere, or that
are missing source, or things that run and nobody knows why.

cheers,

Clare

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "j s" 
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" 
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:18 AM
Subject: metrics for determining health of an AS/400's IT department


I would like to quickly and easily take the temperature of an IT department
using some simple measurements on an AS/400.

I am looking for quick methods of determining some simple things, such as
how organized (or messy) a system is.

For example, if the company uses Robot Scheduler, one measurement is how
many jobs are scheduled?

If the company uses a menuing system, how many menu options exist?

Could you please suggest a few additional mesurements that would indicate
the tidiness of an AS/400?

The measurements should be simple to determine their values, and should be
used in most AS/400 shops.

thanks!
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