Does SmartProduction provide a means to graphically view improvements?
SmartProduction’s Graphical Analysis Facility (GAF), available with versions 4.1.0 and later, provides output in a format that can be easily imported into a set of pre-defined Excel spreadsheets, allowing users to graphically view data generated on the mainframe via SmartProduction’s Global Reports. From the Graphical Analysis Facility’s Entry Screen, you can select various SmartProduction reports (such as Executing Slow Utilities) and then import your data in order to graphically view benefits that can be achieved, such as I/O savings, by applying SmartProduction suggested changes. As you can see from the right entry panel, each report has different sheets available to show potential benefit. Here you can see the potential I/O savings that can be achieved by implementing SmartProduction’s suggested changes related to inefficiencies associated with Executing Slow Utilities. This user can yield a 70-90% I/O savings, reducing I/O by 1.2 million! back to FAQ 10. We use Workload Manager (W
