Although remarkable advances have made iSeries CPU, Memory, and disk upgrades more affordable than ever, disk arm speed remains the single highest potential bottleneck in processing I/O intensive batch jobs. The use of journaling to enable high availability solutions increases that potential.

Centerfield Technology batch/ACCELERATOR cuts to the chase by reducing and in some cases eliminating I/O. Identifying the exact I/O bottleneck, however, is a difficult challenge... one that may require programming changes to solve. The analysis and implementation of changes can be a time-consuming and technically difficult task.

The Centerfield Technology Solution? batch/ACCELERATOR.

batch/ACCELERATOR dynamically analyzes the disk I/O patterns of batch jobs and automatically identifies methods that can reduce the bottleneck in the job without changing the jobs logic or functionality. It does this with sophisticated analysis and automated rule generation. These rules identify the disk reads and disk writes which cause delays and either reduce or eliminate those I/O’s, thus reducing the job’s elapsed time.