Midwest CMG

Wednesday April 18, 2007

Registration and Coffee in the Steamboat Room on the 14th Floor

Achieving Sustainable Business Agility
 with SOA & Web 2.0 (Part I)
Annie Shum, VP, BEA Systems
2004 A. A. Michelson Award Winner

While  the  SOA  promise  of business agility leading to competitive       advantage  is  truly  compelling,  there  is a growing concern among skeptics and proponents alike that pursuit of this agile nirvana may turn  out  to  be a fruitless exercise. This two part talk begins by demystifying  SOA  &  Web  2.0  through the lens of society and then takes  an  objective  look at the key ingredients required to unlock the promise of business agility with SOA and Web 2.0. The conclusion is  sobering  but will have far-reaching implications for tomorrow’s       IT:  namely,  leading  edge technology alone is inadequate.  Service life cycle   governance  and  holistic  SLA  Management  make  the  difference between success and failure of SOA.

MVS Performance Management and the
 Evolution of I/T with the Help of Technology

Steve Samson, Author
2006 A. A. Michelson Award Winner

MVS performance management used to be a full time job with uncertain methodology and outcomes. Now it's an occasional concern with good tools available to solve specific problems. The evolution over 35 years of MVS has been dramatic. External tools and techniques helped. The level of knowledge about how the operating system works grew over time and the "legends" and "mysteries" were debunked and demystified.
However, the greatest contribution has been the amazing evolution of the operating system and the hardware it runs on. Best practices of performance management were absorbed into z/OS and System Z hardware, and IBM has been very accommodating in solving persistent problems with new technology. The process has been so successful that the lessons of z/OS have been applied to other operating system environments as well.

This presentation will wander through the evolution, focus on some of the high points, and even attempt to look further into the future.

Election of New Officers for MCMG
Dan Schwarz, Secretary

The bylaws of MCMG require an election at the first meeting of every year.

At the April 18^th meeting we will elect

President               2-year term

Vice President       2-year term

Secretary              1-year term

Treasurer              1-year term

2 directors             2-year term

2 directors             1-year term

The Board is responsible for forming policies and procedures used at MCMG including meeting topics and formats, rules and procedures.  We are always looking for fresh input for our organization.

MCMG is a volunteer-run organization.  Please participate.  We need your skills and involvement to keep MCMG strong.

If you would like to be nominated for one of the positions, please send an email to mcmg_secretary@cmg.org (note that there is an underscore between “mcmg” and “secretary”), and you will be listed on the ballot.

Achieving Sustainable Business Agility
 with SOA & Web 2.0 (Part II)
Annie Shum, VP, BEA Systems
2004 A. A. Michelson Award Winner

 

Continuation of Part I (see above)

Application View Reporting (AVR) - a "Home grown" applications reporting system spanning servers and platforms.

Jane Fiala-Curry, American Family Insurance

Application View Reporting provides a cross-platform view of an application.  The on-line report correlates distributed and mainframe resource consumption metrics with JVM statistics (garbage collection events), and web usage statistics (page views) over hours, days and weeks. AVR presents clear patterns of consumption and how they correlate with usage. This is extremely helpful in stages of phased rollouts.

Meeting Adjourned

Preregistration:

  $ 85.00

Walk-in registration:

  $100.00

Gary Schneier, Treasurer
MCMG
P. O. Box 1061
Morton Grove, IL 60053-1061

Mr. Schneier will be glad to answer your questions via phone (847-673-4815) or email:  MCMG_Treasurer@cmg.org.