Meeting: Wednesday, February 27, 2002

8:30 AM

Registration and Coffee

9:00 AM

Opening - Welcome - Henry Steinhauer, MCMG Chair

9:15 AM

WLM Management of OS/390 Web Servers

What happens when the unpredictable world of HTTP and the web arrive on your OS/390 system? The key is the Workload Manager and its use of application environments to create the scalable web server. This session will define a web workload and how it looks running on OS/390, how application environments work, and how a web server functions running with WLM goals. Java servlets and Enterprise JavaBean applications executing under WebSphere V3.5 and V4.0 will also be discussed.

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10:30 AM

Nominations of Officers and Board Members

10:45 AM

Morning Break

11:00 AM

This session will focus on monitoring resource utilization and I/O degradation for applications such as Lotus Notes or WebSphere running under z/OS Unix System Services. The primary focus is to understand HFS performance and techniques for I/O avoidance. Dispatching and WLM considerations will also be discussed.

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12:15 PM

Lunch ( provided) after submitting written ballots

1:30 PM

Election Results and Changing of the Guard

2:15 PM

On the Internet, high performance is an absolute, non-negotiable, requirement. Revenues are lost or gained based on the customer's experience of Web performance. Global 2000 companies are expecting a growing percentage of revenues to be derived from e-business channels. However, what is the actual customer experience of your site's performance? How do you know whether you're delivering a high quality customer experience? What happens when you fall behind? Moreover, what can you do to keep up with a seemingly unending thirst for faster and faster performance?

This session will present several fundamental laws of Internet performance and more specifically, techniques to optimize the performance of your e-business. You will learn how to adequately prepare for user loads and unexpected emergencies; optimize server, content, and network infrastructure to maximize performance; proactively diagnose and resolve problems affecting the performance of your Web applications; and develop strategies to assure end-to-end performance objectives. You will learn the current standards for Internet performance, how those standards and corresponding user expectations have changed, and the consequences for not keeping up with them.

3:30 PM

Birds of a Feather (BOF) Round Table