TIME: 8:30a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

LOCATION: Board of Trade (Downtown) - The Rideout Room

1 First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario (Tel: 416-366-6811)

ATTIRE: Business attire or Business casual (hard-soled shoes, slacks, collared shirt)

A customer will present their view on Virtual Tape Solutions.  This presentation was recently presented at SHARE and also through a Sterling Software Teleconference with Gartner Group. It deals with the pros and cons of Tape Mount Management (TMM), tape stackers, hardware based virtual tape, and software based virtual tape among other things.  If your installation is using or plans to use some type of virtual tape solution, you will definitely want to attend this session, since Dan, through implementation and testing, is familiar with the majority of the Virtual Tape Solutions available.

Dan Ledgerwood is currently a Senior Storage Analyst with the Royal Bank of Canada. He has over 19 years of business experience in the Information Processing field.  In his 9 years with the Royal Bank, he has held multiple positions in the Technical Support and Recovery Services for both Mainframe and Midrange Systems.  His current responsibilities include support of the banks extensive DFSMS environment and other strategic Storage Management projects. 

11:00 AM S/390 Resource Utilization: Signs of the Time

To maintain efficiency in the S/390 computing environment, many systems can benefit from a current resource utilization review. Resources in short supply years ago influenced application logic and design. Resources available today might be underused or misused. To demonstrate the optimization process and its benefits, the speaker will discuss topics such as coding techniques, LE, TCP/IP, VLF, VSAM SMB, response time components and the Coupling Facility.

Jane Sedgwick is a Senior Consulting Engineer for Compuware Corporation. She leads and delivers projects for individual application performance management (APM) service engagements. During the past 17 years, she has worked as a Systems Programmer (CICS and MVS), as a Software Engineer for a mainframe manufacturer and as a Performance Specialist.

In this session, you will learn how the Royal Bank is managing the performance and capacity of their NT servers.  Topics will include the methodology, tools and issues encountered in deploying large numbers of servers and desktops.

Stan Dylnicki is Manager of PC/LAN Performance & Capacity Planning at the Royal Bank Financial Group.  He has over 20 years experience in capacity and performance management on various mainframe and distributed systems.  He started the PC/LAN performance group at the bank three years ago and has evolved it to include capacity planning and storage management for all the bank's desktop and servers.  He was a Project Manager at Guide for seven years, where he helped IBM evolve products like RMF and SLR.  He attends, and sometimes contributes, to CMG both locally and nationally.

The focus of this discussion session will be a review of recent industry announcements which affect us all in many areas of configurations, capacity planning, performance, and data management in the entire Enterprise. Specifically, some trends and directions in areas of processing, I/O subsystems, and disaster recovery/restart. This session will encourage discussion and opinion from you on the areas being discussed and hence will only be limited by the overall time.