You do not have to adhere to the following hints to perform a benchmark, but you may find it more convenient if you do so:
Subdirectory name | Purpose |
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results | Follow the instructions in step 6 of the section "Configuring general settings" to output the results of the benchmark to a file. This makes it easier to view the results without having to search through the other entries in the WebSphere InterChange Server logging destination, and makes it easier to compare the results of different executions of the same benchmark against one another. |
sampledata | Save all input files of sample data in this directory so that you (or anyone else you might be working with that has to perform benchmarking as well) can reliably locate good test data to use. |
scripts | Save the different scripts that you might use in support of your benchmarking activities in this directory. These might be SQL scripts to clear relationship tables, or scripts to stop the MQSeries queue manager and clear the queues, and so forth. |
You will probably also find it helpful to keep a tool or script handy for clearing the MQSeries queues, as this task is performed frequently when benchmarking.