Canadian Computer Measurement Group

CMG Canada was formed in 1985 by: Gabe Gewurtz, Bill Gray, Harry Zimmer, Tony Mungal, Mick Devereau, Geoff Senson, and Mike Osborn.
The Computer Measurement Group evolved out of the need to provide an exchange forum for ideas and methodologies amongst data processing professionals in an unbiased, non-vendor setting. From the formation of the first CMG group in 1975 in the United States, it's dedication to providing education, networking, leadership opportunities, and reliable technical information has been exemplary.

CMG Focus

The focus of CMG has evolved over the years to reflect the changing trends and climate of this dynamic IS industry. Today the focus is on providing information on at least the following:

  • traditional mainframe computer systems (Enterprise Systems)
  • Open Systems
  • emerging technologies
  • networks
  • I/O subsystems
  • performance methodologies
  • capacity planning methodologies
  • management skills and career enrichment

 

Just a reminder that it is time to pay for memberships. 

View or Print the Membership form for this year:

            Membership_11'12.docx  or  Membership_11'12.pdf

A CMG Canada membership is from September to August. 

 

CMG Canada meeting dates for Sep 2011 through Aug 2012:

 

October 18, 2011 (complete  see below for details)  

February 21, 2012  (complete  see below for details)

April 17 & 18, 2012

 

 

Current meeting agenda  for Apr 17th,18th  2012  

                                      (Click on date to view current agenda in PDF format………. Or click here for WORD format )

 

Tuesday

      09:05     Evolving It infrastructures

o        Anthony G. Mungal – Senior Consultant

      10:35     IPV6 - Why Can't We Just Be Happy With NAT?

o       Ron Marshall – Oracle

       01:15    Why Monitor?

o       Carl Kyonka - Enbridge

      02:15     CMG 2011 Highlights

o       John Slobodnik – Toronto Hydro

       03:15     Don's Diatribe XVI  

o       Don Melton – Vatic Technologies

 04:30     Members Reception

 

Wednesday

09:05     Approaches For Optimizing Batch On System z

o       Gord Neill - IBM Canada

10:35     Storage Performance: Changing Perspectives in the zEnterprise Environments   

o       Anthony G. Mungal – Senior Consultant

01:30     Customer Experiences With Hiperdispatch And Soft Capping In IBM Mainframe Systems

o       Jonathan Gladstone – Bank of Montreal

03:00     TBD?                  

Please e-mail carl.kyonka@enbridge.com for more information about the meeting agendas. 

 

Previous Sessions for this membership year

 

February 21st, 2012  (half day)

 

A detailed agenda for the February 21 meeting can be downloaded from one of these files. 

          agendaFeb212012.pdf  or    agendaFeb212012.doc

 

1:00 PM          Meet

1:15 PM          Welcome   

1:20 PM          Optimizing Performance and Capacity in Private and Hybrid Clouds

Noel Clarke - OpTier

2:30 PM          Coffee

2:45 PM          Transaction Following Using PurePath

                                    Michael Taylor - Compuware

4:00 PM          Adjourn

 

October 18, 2011

   

A detailed agenda for the October 18 meeting can be downloaded from one of these files. 

            agendaOct182011-TM.doc  or  agendaOct182011-TM.pdf    

 

9:05 AM          Discover Active Capacity Planning: – What you, the capacity planner,

can do to impact your company’s bottom line

Greg Scriba – BMC

10:15 AM        A Usage Based Approach to Updating the FICON Infrastructure

Anthony G. Mungal

1:30 PM          X-ray your systems

                                    Danilo Gipponi  - EPV Technologies

2:30 PM          Collecting and using SMF 113 and other MF metrics

                                    Danilo Gipponi, Fabio Massimo Ottaviani - EPV Technologies

 

 

 

Past  meetings and presentations

 

 

Membership

 

View or Print the Membership form for this year – Membership_11'12.DOC  or  Membership_11'12.pdf

A CMG Canada membership is from September to August. 

 

Membership Benefits

CMG Canada provides three seminars per year (usually Nov, Feb, April) as follows:

October – half day or full day seminar.

February – half day or full day seminar.

April – 2 full days featuring 9 -10 speakers total.   

The cost is $100 Canadian for an individual membership.

 

 

Other Meetings and Affiliations:

(for CMG and other organizations with reciprocal notification)

COUG (Central Ontario Users Group) – for users of z/OS, UNIX and Linux on enterprise servers.  E-mail: Michael Hurley or Dennis Chitussi for information. 

NaSPA Ontario (Network and Systems Professionals Association).  See http://www.cartagena.com/naspa/contents.html 

TASS (Toronto Area SAS Society).  See www.torsas.org

CIPS (Canadian Information Processing Society).  See www.cipstoronto.ca

Canadian Software Asset Management Users' Group.  See http://www.tam-inc.com/canadiansoftware.htm

FSP (Federation of Security Professionals).  See www.intiss.com\fsp

 

CMG 2011 International conference will be on December 5 - 9 at the Gaylord in Washington DC. 

If you can not attend the conference, then consider a CMG membership. 

 

CMG International Home Page / Information about Other CMG Groups

 

 

Contact the CMG Canada President and Directors

 

E-mail the webmaster. Suggestions and questions are appreciated.

Site updated on Oct 5, 2011.