news-2012-01-17

2012-01-17

CMA has successfully conducted performance tests o CMA's Real Time Gross Settlement system (RTS/X) at IBM Systems Solutions Center.

Stockholm, January 17th, 2012. CMA has announced today that it has successfully carried out performance tests of its Real Time Gross Settlement system (RTS/X) in a join effort of CMA team and IBM specialists in IBM Systems Solutions Center, Bangalore, India.

Test scenarios included different types of payment messages, and allowed simulation of workload close to real workload in the existing RTS/X production installations.

CMA’s RTS/X system was configured in a way that the access servers were running integration bus software that made RTS/X service accessible to external parties (such as banking institutions), load generators and clients (XAdapter’s). All of the access servers were active and client connections were distributed between them. Database and Core server was running RTS/X core application that provided RTGS settlement service and other services to its clients through the gateway servers. This server was connected to the external storage, used to store all of the data files of Oracle database.

On the basis of testing results, it could be concluded that throughput does not diminish with an increase in a number of messages. In the end, 1 million of payment transactions had been processed in less than 3.5 hours.

The tests have demonstrated high performance of RTS/X solution installed on IBM zLinux on System z9 / Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago), RDBMS Oracle 11gR2, with an ability to process 321 200 payments per hour.

There is room to significantly increase achieved results by improving disk subsystem and connecting more clients to the system.

CMA would like to thank IBM System Solution Center team in Bangalore for assistance in those tests.