MSU cost control: the technical and commercial levers.

Most consumption-priced mainframe software bills against peaks, not averages. This paper works through the levers that move the number: soft capping and defined capacity, batch-window placement against the rolling four-hour average, zIIP offload, and the contractual baselines that decide what a peak costs.

What is inside

• Why peaks — not averages — drive consumption-priced bills
• Soft capping and defined capacity as cost-control instruments
• Batch-window placement against the rolling four-hour average
• zIIP offload and what genuinely moves to a specialty engine
• The contractual baselines that decide what a peak actually costs