Midwest CMG

Bookshelf

The list below consists of books and publications that may be of use to the computer performance analyst or capacity planner. Some of the books may be out of print. These books have been found useful by Midwest CMG members. Midwest CMG is not responsible for any recommendation that does not prove to be of value to the user.

Books about operating systems

MVS Answer Book
David J. Sacks
John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1994, ISBN: 0-471-60821-1

MVS Performance Management: z/OS Version 1 Ed.
Stephen L. Samson
Self Published, 2002

MVS & Unix A Survival Handbook for Multi-Platform Users, Developers, and Managers
Richard J. Bambara
McGraw-Hill, 1998, ISBN: 0-07-006663-9

UNIX As A Second Language
Robert H. Johnson
Landmark, 1999, ISBN: 0-9650929-1-7

Windows 2000 Performance Guide
Mark Freidman, Odysseas Pentakalos
O'Reilly & Associates, 2002, ISBN: 1-565-92466-5

Books about capacity planning and performance analysis

The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis
Raj Jain
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1991, ISBN: 0-471-50336-3

Capacity Planning and Performance Modeling From Mainframes to Client-Server Systems
Daniel A. Menasce, Virgilio A.F. Almmeida, & Larry W. Dowdy
Prentice Hall, 1994, ISBN: 0-13-789546-1

Capacity Planning for Internet Services
Adrian Cockcroft, Bill Walker
Prentice Hall, 2001, ISBN: 0-13-089402-8

Capacity Planning for Web Performance Metrics, Models, & Methods
Daniel A. Menasce, Virgilio A.F. Almmeida
Prentice Hall, 1998, ISBN: 0-13-693-822-1

Linux Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning
Jason R. Fink, Matthew D. Sherer
SAMS, 2002, ISBN: 0-672-32081-9

Performance Modeling of Communication Networks and Computer Architectures
Peter G. Harrison, Naresh M. Patel
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1993, ISBN: 0-201-54419-9

Performance Engineering of Software Systems
Connie U. Smith, Ph.D.
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1990, ISBN: 0-201-53769-9

The Practical Performance Analyst
Neil J. Gunther
Authors Choice Press, 2000, ISBN: 0-595-12674-X

Books about presenting information

How to Lie with Charts
Gerald E. Jones
Sybex, 1995, ISBN: 0-7821-1723-6

Envisioning Information
Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press, 1990, ISBN: 0-9613921-1-8

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Second Edition
Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press, 2001, ISBN: 0-9613921-4-2

Other books of interest or that may be useful

Guerilla Data Analysis Using Micosoft Excel
Bill Jelen
Holy Macro! Books, 2002, ISBN: 0-972-4258-0-2

Professional SAS Programmer's Pocket Reference 2nd Ed.
Rick Aster
Breakfast Computer Books and Tapes, 1998, ISBN: 1-891957-02-3

There are IBM Redbooks on almost all operating systems (z/OS, VM, OS/400, Linux, AIX, Windows) and programs (DB2, UDB, CICS, etc.) that run on IBM hardware. They can be found at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/.

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For book recommendations, changes, problems or corrections please email Rick Ralston (rralston@humana.com).