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system. With Workload Manager, you define performance goals and assign a business importance to each goal. You define the goals for work in business terms, and the system decides how much resource, such as central processing unit (CPU) and storage, should be given to it to meet the goal. Workload Manager constantly monitors the system and adapts processing to meet the goals. Distributed systems rely on operating system and other software solutions for workload management. In a UNIX-based environment, a number of solutions can be engineered to enhance the workload management capabilities of small clusters of similar servers. There are fewer workload management facilities available for Windows-based systems. Generally, any workload management technology needs to be supported by the core software components that drive the workload that needs managing, and there is not yet a universally adopted workload management solution that works across all distributed servers. In most cases, the workload management capabilities of distributed systems are sufficient for entry-level workloads, but they cannot match the facilities and services offered by the mainframe. Problem determination Mainframe products generally provide a wide variety of problem determination tools such as monitoring, journaling, tracing, dumps, and user exits that are available to administrators when problems occur. To further help the users,