FLORIDA CMG Seminar – January 18th 2011 TAMPA
PRELIMINARY AGENDA
LOCATION: Holiday Inn Express - TAMPA /ROCKY POINT ISLAND
3025 NORTH ROCKY POINT DRIVE EAST
TAMPA, FLORIDA 33607
Hotel Front Desk: 1-813-287-8585
TIME: 8:30a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
COST: free of charge.
ATTIRE: Business attire or Business casual (hard-soled shoes, slacks, collared shirt)
To Register send an email with your name and company affiliation to flcmg@cmg.org
Tuesday January 18th 2011
Tuesday January 18th - Sponsored in part by SoftwareOnZ
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM Welcome - Anthony Mungal
9:05 AM Load Testing is Easy. Good Load Testing is not. Preparation is the difference.
Chris Lynn – Safeway, Inc.
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his paper discusses recommendations and considerations to plan and prepare for valuable performance and load testing. It includes a guide to identifying and developing the: testing purposes, roles and responsibilities, business performance requirements, scope of testing, testing environment requirements, usage patterns and transaction mix, proposed test scenarios, load generation requirements, proposed monitoring, tracking and reporting. Once this planning is done the scripting and execution is “easy”. Scripting is not included.
Chris Lynn has worked in Information Technology for 15 years in the software development, banking, retail, and education industries. Chris has a Masters of Science in Civil Engineering. Chris started as a mainframe operator and moved into distributed server administration, Enterprise Systems Management, Network Operations, and through a few more roles into Capacity Planning.
10:05 AM Coffee - Sponsored by SoftwareOnZ
10:15 AM Finding The Critical Path: A Simple Approach
Scott Chapman - American Electric Power (AEP)
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iguring out why a process in a batch window ended late often requires tracing back through the critical path to look for anomalies. In a complicated batch schedule, determining which jobs are on the critical path can be a seemingly daunting task. Various commercial products can be used for this task, but they may not be necessary. The code needed to determine which predecessor jobs constitute a particular job’s critical path is relatively, perhaps surprisingly, simple.
Scott Chapman has been a programmer since the 6th grade. His love for technical details got him involved with performance testing a mainframe CICS-DB2 application that is the largest application AEP has ever developed. Over a decade ago, that experience led to him becoming responsible for mainframe performance and capacity; he continues to seek out improvements in both application and system performance. However, he never stopped being a programmer. He was hired to write code for everything from PCs to an IBM System/36 system to IBM mainframes to WebOS cell phones. Because he has particular opinions about how performance data should be presented, but no budget for new tools, for the past few years he has been exploring various ways of presenting mainframe data via a web interface. His passion for building interesting and useful things continues even when he’s not on a keyboard as he’s also a woodworker.
11:15 PM Technical Discussion on vWLC
Craig S. Mullins & Brian Hoare - SoftwareOnZ
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ub capacity pricing, vWLC, Define Capacity and the 4 hour rolling average – are you STILL paying too much? In October of 2000, IBM added the "Define Capacity" setting for Sub-Capacity customers. How does this affect each LPAR, WLM and the 4 hour rolling average? The dynamics of this and what it will cost you if this is not managed correctly. Every month companies could be paying less for software costs if the 4-hour rolling average is reduced (and managed more effectively). This session will discuss ideas on managing WLM to reduce costs and to improve performance by ensuring the right MSU's are in the right place, at the right time & for the right cost.
Craig S. Mullins is a data management strategist with more than 25 years of experience using and managing databases on mainframe systems. He has experience as an application developer, a DBA, and an instructor with multiple database management systems, including working with DB2 for z/OS since Version 1. Craig is also an IBM Information Champion and is the author of two books: DB2 Developer’s Guide (currently in its 5th edition), and Database Administration: The Complete Guide to Practices and Procedures. You can find more information about Craig at his web site: http://www.craigsmullins.com
Brian Hoare has spent the last 25+ years working in the IT industry and is responsible for setting the overall direction for SoftwareOnZ. He has lived and set up technology businesses in every corner of the globe, including Australia, the Far East and Europe. Starting out in London in an OS/MFT environment, he has worked for some of the most well known ISV's. This international experience gained by working in many different and varied cultures has enabled him to have a very good all round understanding of IT and how this makes the business work. The USA is now home to Brian, and his family.
12:15 PM Lunch - Sponsored by SoftwareOnZ
1:15 PM Auto Soft Capping (ASC) – What is your vWLC strategy?
Craig S. Mullins & Brian Hoare - SoftwareOnZ
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he Mainframe community is strong and still growing thanks to a high investment rate and highly skilled people. By implementing soft capping and vWLC (variable Workload License Charge) you can take advantage of the Value statement of IBM’s Mainframe Charter. vWLC stipulates that the customer will be invoiced on the capacity of the machine used, not the "full capacity." But even with vWLC your monthly bill can run into many thousands of $$$. So let me ask you a question - How can you reduce your vWLC charge? There is a new solution available, which allows the customer to control these costs - AutoSoftCapping (ASC). Why not save MSUs by creating surplus power or "White Space?’’ ASC can enable you to better control your monthly software costs. The product has been licensed by many organizations, worldwide, which are using it to better manage their environment and reduce their software costs. The solution has a fast return on investment (ROI) 3 - 9 months, since it reduces these software costs.
Craig S. Mullins is a data management strategist with more than 25 years of experience using and managing databases on mainframe systems. He has experience as an application developer, a DBA, and an instructor with multiple database management systems, including working with DB2 for z/OS since Version 1. Craig is also an IBM Information Champion and is the author of two books: DB2 Developer’s Guide (currently in its 5th edition), and Database Administration: The Complete Guide to Practices and Procedures. You can find more information about Craig at his web site: http://www.craigsmullins.com
Brian Hoare has spent the last 25+ years working in the IT industry and is responsible for setting the overall direction for SoftwareOnZ. He has lived and set up technology businesses in every corner of the globe, including Australia, the Far East and Europe. Starting out in London in an OS/MFT environment, he has worked for some of the most well known ISV's. This international experience gained by working in many different and varied cultures has enabled him to have a very good all round understanding of IT and how this makes the business work.
The USA is now home to Brian, and his family.
2:15 PM Saving Money (and your mainframe)
Peter Enrico – EPS Strategies
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eter’s latest presentation focuses on the new SMF 113 records and relating them to IBM’s LSPRs for processor sizing. This is a leading edge topic, and discusses the latest methods of using the SMF 113 records as input to zPCR and relating the SMF 113s to IBM’s LSPRs. The presentation also provides an overview of the SMF 113s and how to interpret the measurements.
3:15 PM Coffee - Sponsored by SoftwareOnZ
3:30 PM Cheryl’s Hot Flashes #24
Cheryl Watson – Watson & Walker, Inc.
4:30 PM FL CMG business meeting - Chaired by Anthony Mungal
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he FL CMG business meeting is an informal discussion of matters pertaining to the FLCMG as per: next meeting date, location, request for participation of officers, etc.
5:00 PM Adjourn
End of Day - January 18th 2011 - Sponsored in part by SoftwareOnZ – Thank you
Important CMG News and Dates
FLORIDA CMG (FLCMG) News
This FLCMG meeting is being held in Tampa and is offered free of charge. As part of this meeting, we will undertake a business session in which we will discuss the possibility of the next meeting and the venue. Come prepared to discuss what’s next for FLCMG. The Chairman for FLCMG is Anthony Mungal and he can be contacted at mungal_tony@emc.com.
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… and plan to submit a paper and attend CMG’11 in Washington D.C. during December 4th- 9th 2011.
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December 4-9th 2011 Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center Washington D.C. |
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