IBM System i (AS/400) CPW Ratings

Q.  What are System i CPW ratings?

A.  System i5 models offer two commercial processing workload (CPW) ratings:

.  Processor CPW:

Represents maximum relative performance running commercial processing workloads (CPWs) for a processor configuration Use this value to compare relative performance between models with the same or different number of processors.

Use the tables and information in this chapter as a quick reference of capacities and processor feature structure of today¡¯s System i5 servers.

.  5250 CPW:

Represents the relative performance available to perform 5250 online transaction processing (OLTP, interactive) workloads