Agenda

 

8:30 AM

Registration and Coffee on the 18th Floor

9:00 AM

Opening - Welcome - Margaret Greenberg, MCMG President

9:15 AM

Best Practices in Batch Tuning:

Empowering IT Staff to Reduce CPU and Runtime in the Enterprise

Sal Del Conte, SEA 

Sal will explore the key factors that often limit the focus of batch tuning, discuss the technology framework and methods that effectively assist CPE staff as well as empower other key staff members in the identification and resolution of batch tuning opportunities. We'll be taking advantage of his 35+ years in data center standardization and optimization with a concentration of operations effectiveness.

10:15 AM

Morning Break

10:45 AM

Finding the Critical Path - A simple approach
Scott Chapman, AEP

2009 Mullen winner: You will learn of his use of on hand tools to determine which predecessor jobs constitute a particular job's critical path.  This is relatively, perhaps surprisingly, simple.  You can save some money by eliminating a purchase.

11:45 AM

Election of New Officers for MCMG
Margaret Greenberg, MCMG President 

At this meeting we will elect the following for a 2 year term: Secretary,   Treasurer  and  2 directors       

To be placed on the ballot or have questions about positions answered, please reply to mcmg_elections@cmg.org 

12:00 PM

Lunch at Tables outside Conference Rooms

1:00 PM

Leveraging the RMF Distributed Dataserver for Real-Time Performance Intelligence   Scott Chapman, AEP

Scott will discuss the design and implementation details of his dashboard with the hope of inspiring others to explore their own potential uses for the DDS.  Sample code will be provided to illustrate retrieving data from the DDS.  Concepts could apply across platforms.

2:00 PM

Afternoon Break

2:30 PM

From the Trenches

Richard Ralston, Humana 

Rick has long experience in the IBM mainframe world and has been very involved in getting the most from hardware and software. Today, he'll be sharing some of his expertise with  hints to help you make your jobs easier. Topics to be covered:

  • SMF Buffer shortages - their causes and solutions
  • Hiperdispatch Observations

 

3:30 PM

BoF

Richard Ralston, Humana 

It's been a while since we have had a good discussion of things for which we are seeking solutions or just want a better way to do a "certain" process. Rick has volunteered to lead this session and tohelp us garner information for future meetings topics.

4:00 PM

Meeting Adjourned