HOW DO I CALCULATE THE NUMBER OF DB2 USER LICENSES NEEDED FOR CMVC?

ITEM: RTA000052038



                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
QUESTION:                                                                       
I have reviewed item CQJPF and still have a question about the                  
number of DB2 licenses I need.  The item says that the CMVC user                
communicates via a CMVC daemon.  Is there just one daemon for                   
CMVC, or a configurable number, or is there one per user?  If I                 
have 5 CMVC tokens, and want all five to have relatively simultaneous           
access (realizing the 15 hold, etc.) how many DB2 user licenses                 
must I purchase?  An example of how to calculate this, and the                  
trade-offs (similar to your ROT of 1.4 CMVC tokens per user) would              
be helpful also.                                                                
                                                                               
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A: The cmvcd daemons run on the CMVC server and handle CMVC client              
requests for CMVC actions.   Each daemon handles one request at a time.         
You determine the number of daemons you want to start based upon the load       
you expect the CMVC server to handle accessing DB2/6000.   Each cmvcd           
daemon requires a database license.   CMVC will support a maximum of 255        
cmvcd licenses.   When you specify a given number of daemons to be              
started, CMVC actually activates twice that number.   However, only the         
number of daemons you specify actively process requests to the DB2/6000         
database and only the number you specify are database users.                    
                                                                                
Thus, if you are able to get by satisfactorily with one cmvcd daemon,           
CMVC will create two daemons, of which only one is used to access the           
DB2/6000 database.   You would need one DB2/6000 license.   You could          
have as many clients connected to the database as you wish with this one        
license.   However, they would only be actually accessing the database          
one at a time.   This would be satisfactory depending upon the particular       
applications running in the client/server environment.   If performance         
is not satisfactory, then you would need to increase the number of              
DB2/6000 licenses as appropriate and increase the number of cmvcd daemons       
to correspond to the DB2/6000 licenses added.                                   
                                                                                
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This item was created from library item Q675651      FFCQB                      
                                                                                
Additional search words:                                                       
AIX AIXCMVC ALTERNATE CALC CALCS CALCULATE CASE CMVC COMPUTE                    
CONFIGURATIO DB2 FFCQB INDEX IX JAN95 LICENSES NUMBER NUMBERING                 
NUMERIC NUMERICAL OZNEW RISCSYSTEM SOFTWARE USER                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                               


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Dated: 01/1995 Category: AIXCMVC
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