SAP IBM R 48 • Enterprise Tech Journal Application Servers on Z By Seewah Chan, Fimy Hu, Dr. Paul Lekkas and Veng Ly of a colocated SAP application server environment. A subset of Linux application server configurations was evaluated against the total batch elapsed time of the SAP core Banking Account Settlement workload. The objective of each test scenario was to quantify the impact each configuration has on the batch elapsed time. The findings of this study show that proper configuration and tuning of the Linux application server environment significantly improves the batch elapsed time and can ecent generations of IBM Z have significantly more processing capacity and are an exceptional platform for the consolidation of large SAP workloads onto a single physical machine. Colocating a workload into a single Z mainframe provides many potential benefits: better security through reduced external communication, improved network latency and throughput, and reduction in the costs and complexity of managing the system infrastructure. This study focuses on the performance • 2020: Issue 2