Re: QMAXACTLVL and system performance

[Martin Rowe <dbg400.net@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/12/05, Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ah ha, a System Value question!
>
> When the System/38 was shipped, one of the ways that IBM theorized that
> they could throttle performance was with the System Value QMAXACTLVL.  But
> IBM never shipped a System/38 large enough to have 100 jobs concurrently
> active.  By the time the AS/400 got large enough to support this, it
> because immediately that this was a lousy metric.
>
> So when you installed V2R2, this system value was changed from the old
> default of 100 to *NOMAX.  The problem was that certain systems never had
> the change take.  It's not clear who to me, possibly only the default
> changed.
>
> The word is out clearly, change this system value to *NOMAX.

Cheers Al & Scott. That's what I wanted to hear :)

Regards, Martin
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