ThruPut Manager® AE Product Overview 
ThruPut Manager AE (Automation Edition) is the only batch software solution in its class. It optimizes and automates the total z/OS JES2 batch workload, managing every job from submission to end of execution. It complements whatever job scheduler you deploy by ensuring the jobs it submits are managed as efficiently as possible throughout the batch process.
This solution addresses every point of manual intervention previously required. It overcomes the legacy of a 40-year-old design, incorporating best practices and modernizing today’s dynamic and complex mainframe batch environment.
ThruPut Manager AE is a strategic product for z/OS JES2 datacenters. With it you can modernize the batch service you offer and reduce your costs to provide that service. It's an industrial strength solution for today's datacenter. Further information can be found in:
- ThruPut Manager AE Product Overview - Request this booklet for a more detailed introduction of ThruPut Manager AE.
- Context and Scope
- Simplicity
- Service
- Savings
- System Throughput
- Capacity Management
- Relationship to ThruPut Manager SE
Automated Capacity Management
ThruPut Manager AE now provides automated capacity management facilities for installations using or considering sub-capacity pricing. In addition to the existing automation and optimization features, installations can constrain or defer low importance batch as a peak approaches and resume normal service when it passes, generating significant monthly software savings with no impact to online service or mission critical batch.
Generate Real Savings
For intermediate-sized installations, monthly software fees can be $500,000 to $1,000,000 or more. We estimate these installations can save $40,000 - $80,000 per month using ThruPut Manager AE to manage their processor usage, for yearly savings of up to $1 million.
Manage Processor Usage
Installations use IBM’s sub-capacity pricing to treat a CEC to be smaller than it is, for the purpose of software pricing. This pricing model is based on the 4-hour rolling average, that is, the CPU usage averaged over the previous four hours. The software charges for the month are based on the highest 4-hour rolling average for the whole month.
ThruPut Manager AE continuously monitors the 4-hour rolling average for each LPAR and optionally, LPAR group, comparing it to a “capacity target” which can be:
- the Defined Capacity for an LPAR or
- the Group Limit for an LPAR Group or
- a capacity target defined to ThruPut Manager AE when the installation does not use soft-capping.
When the 4-hour rolling average approaches the capacity target, ThruPut Manager AE automatically constrains or defers lower importance batch as specified by the installation, and correspondingly relaxes these constraints as the average decreases.
The lower the highest 4-hour rolling average for the month on that machine, the lower the monthly bill for each software product participating in sub-capacity pricing.
Further information can be found in:
- ThruPut Manager AE Automated Capacity Managment Highlights - This paper gives technical highlights of the ThruPut Manager AE features that support datacenters using sub-capacity pricing.