26 Chapter 26. Capacity Provisioning z/OS Capacity Provisioning allows installations to manage processing capacity more reliably, more easily, and faster. Replacing manual monitoring with autonomic management, or supporting manual operation with recommendations, can assure that sufficient processing power will be available with the least possible delay. With the z/OS Capacity Provisioning function, it is possible to manage processing capacity through policy-based automation. z/OS Workload Manager (WLM) manages the workload by goals and business importance (as defined by an installation WLM policy) on each z/OS system in a Parallel Sysplex. WLM metrics (such as resource delays and performance index) are available through existing interfaces and are reported through RMF Monitor III, with one RMF gatherer per z/OS system. This chapter explains the latest enhancements provided with z/OS V1R13 for the Capacity Provisioning Manager (CPM), as listed here: User-defined capacity increments provide a better way to control the amount of capacity to be added. Recurring time conditions provide a better way to control when additional capacity can be added. Provisioning Manager command is enhanced, allowing you to filter the output of the workload report. New Control Center support - Windows 7 is now supported. Certain migrations are necessary now: ­ Support of SNMP will be removed in a later release; consider migrating to z/OS BCPii. ­ Java 5 is no longer supported and run time needs to be migrated. © Copyright IBM Corp. 2012. All rights reserved. 611