METHOD OF ESTIMATING EFFECT OF PARALLEL PROCESSING AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR METHOD

An apparatus automatically estimates the effect of processing steps of procedures in parallel by computer. The apparatus collects SMF (system management function) records from an SMF data set that is in a magnetic disk, analyzes the SMF records, calculates series-processing time for processing the steps of the procedures in series, estimates, from the SMF records, time reduction produced by processing the steps of the procedures in parallel, and subtracts the time reduction from the series-processing time, to estimate parallel-processing time for processing the steps of the procedures in parallel.