Patent ID: 9680657
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L,Y02D

Claim:
1. A mainframe computing system comprising: a central processor complex; a plurality of billing entities, a billing entity being a logical partition of the mainframe computing system or a group of logical partitions, each billing entity having a respective capacity limit; a workload manager that schedules work requested by the plurality of billing entities on the central processor complex and tracks, by billing entity, a rolling average of millions of service units (MSUs); a dynamic capping policy for the central processor complex stored in non-transitory memory, the dynamic capping policy identifying: a dynamic capping master that monitors and adjusts the respective capacity limits of the subset of the plurality of billing entities, wherein the workload manager schedules work within the respective capacity limits so that the central processor complex executes the work without exceeding the maximum cost limit and the MSU limit, the monitoring and adjusting being based on the dynamic capping policy and bounded by cost entitlement unused from billing entities having respective rolling averages that are less than respective MSU entitlement values.