IBM lab tools — mainframe and distributed

If your portal project uses IBM services and your enterprise does not have a solution and tooling around capacity management for both distributed and mainframe paradigms, IBM labs can be a starting point for unveiling the power and value of a sophisticated tool for performance modeling. The starting point for high-level (ballpark) sizing is with IBM Techline Sizing Labs. If your portal project has sizing needs, it is worth reaching out to the IBM Representative on the account and find out more about it. Apart from them, we will cite two options from two different labs that can be used to assist in these sizing efforts.

IBM zCP3000

zCP3000 is a highly recommended IBM internal tool, which provides an advanced modeling framework that only IBM technical sales specialists can execute on behalf of customers. It encapsulates all lessons learned and best practices around understanding the needs of a particular configuration and providing the hardware and...