Midwest CMG

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 Meeting

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Agenda:

8:30 AM	Registration and Coffee
9:00 AM	Opening - Welcome – Donna Folkerts, MCMG President
9:15 AM	Maximizing your use of SAS Chuck Moore, CBOE Mr. Moore will guide us through analysis and reporting opportunities of SAS such as SAS/GRAPH, email and html. If you need some understanding of how to use this powerful analysis and graphing tool to set up a web-based reporting system, come to this presentation. Concentration is on GOPTIONS, gplot, gchart, ods for producing excellent visual reports to management on the web and email. SAS is not just for the mainframe, but also mid-sized and PCs. Learn the basic steps in composing a good reporting process here.
10:30 AM	Morning Break
10:45 AM	WLM – The Top 10 Mistakes and Questions 2005 Peter Enrico, Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc. Have you ever wondered about the most common WLM mistakes and mishaps that performance administrators make? Or the most common questions they have? Having examined probably hundreds of WLM service definitions, Mr. Enrico has compiled a list of the most common WLM misses people make. Some mistakes and questions are holdovers from 2004 since the mistakes are still commonly being made, but the presentation will be interjected with “NEW” mistakes and questions. During this session Peter will outline these WLM mistakes and why they are mistakes. He will recommend some corrective actions. Mr. Enrico will be offering his "WLM Performance and Re-evaluating of Goals" Seminar at the following times in the Mid-West. May 16 - 20, 2005 - Chicago, Illinois, USA June 6 - 10, 2005 - Kansas City, Missouri, USA More details are available at his web site - http://www.epstrategies.com/html/nf/EPSSeminarWLM.html
12:00 PM	Lunch in Western Stage on the 14^th Floor
1:15 PM	Introduction to eWLM Concepts Peter Enrico, Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc. The Enterprise Workload Manager (eWLM) is the next generation of policy oriented dynamic workload management. IBM has taken the concepts and lessons learned from the z/OS Workload Manager (WLM) and applied them to complex multi-tiered computing environments. But what really is eWLM and how does it work? What are some of the new concepts and terms that need to be learned? What sorts of installations will benefit from it? Now that you've migrated to WLM goal mode do you need to start thinking about migrating to eWLM. Mr. Enrico will provide a comprehensive introduction to eWLM in an easy to understand, but informative fashion. Attendees will learn the basic concepts, terms, and approaches that eWLM takes to dynamically manage applications and workloads running in distributed multi-tiered environments. This presentation will be a great technical introduction to eWLM.
2:30 PM	Afternoon Break
2:45 PM	Perception Is Reality The Psychology of Performance Management Denise P. Kalm, BMC Software, Inc. Performance management is the most thankless job. If performance is good, the perception is that you are not needed. If response time is lagging, you are a failure. Even when the measurements look good, if the end user is unhappy, again, you have failed to meet your goals. Managing expectations, end users, colleagues, business managers and your boss – this is your real SLA. Learn how to manage change, make recommendations, handle hidden service levels and deal with degradation with greater success, to enhance your reputation, visibility and value to your company.
4:00 PM	Meeting Adjourned

The Speakers:

Chuck Moore

Mr. Moore has a Bachelor’s Degree from DePaul University in C.S. with concentration in Database and Data Analysis. Since April 1, 1999, he has been a Capacity Engineer at CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange). He has responsibility to ensure that all CBOE systems have sufficient capacity and that performance meets the expectations of business units of interest. His experience includes work with these various systems: TPF running on Amdahl Millennium 2000 series mainframes; MVS running on Amdahl Millennium 700 series mainframe; Solaris servers = Sun and Fujitsu, ranging from 220R to 6800 and Fuji 250's to 1500's; AIX servers = H50's, H80's, M80, 615's, 630's, 650's, 550's; HP/UX servers = K's, N's, V2600; Linux servers = Opteron; Windows NT/2000 servers; and Stratus Fault-Tolerant servers. Mr. Moore is a computer performance professional who is aggressively seeking new ways to advance the performance and reporting mechanisms in the environment at CBOE.

Peter Enrico

Peter Enrico has strong and diverse experience with the IBM zArchitecture platform, and a 
solid background in OS/390 (now z/OS), Workload Manager, J2EE, WebSphere, Web Services,

e-business applications, application architecture, Parallel Sysplex, and z/OS UNIX System 
Services.  He also has a good deal experience with a variety of UNIX platforms, ERP applications,
and distributed application architecture.

Peter has a well-rounded computing knowledge base, but he specializes in computer
performance analysis, measurement, tuning, and capacity planning of large enterprise
computing systems, subsystems, and e-business applications. He is known as someone
that can explain complex computing concepts to wide audiences, including managers
and executive, in an effective and easily understandable manner.

Denise Kalm

Denise Kalm has more than 20 years experience in IT, most of that spent in the performance management/capacity planning arena. Starting out on Tandems, she branched out to CICS, MVS, UNIX and began looking at network performance for a large, global bank before joining BMC Software, Inc as a software consultant. Her current role is in technical marketing for Enterprise Performance Assurance. Prior to entering the IT profession, she was a biochemical geneticist. Her hobbies include freelance writing, Jazzercise and scuba diving. Her book, Lifestorm, on the Oakland Hills fire is available on Amazon. She is currently studying towards a life coaching certificate.

Location:

Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza (click for map)
350 North Orleans Street
Chicago, IL 60654

Note: All meeting events will be in Western Stage on the 14^th floor.

If you are parking in the garage, be sure to bring the ticket to the reservation desk to be

stamped. The fee will be $10; otherwise, an unstamped ticket will be charged at the daily rate.

Directions:

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Cost:

Preregistration:	$70.00
Walk-in registration:	$95.00

Preregistration helps significantly with planning.

Registration:

Preregistration must be received by Thursday, June 9th.

Please include the following information with your registration:

Name and Title
eMail Address
Company Name
Company Address
Business Phone Number

Make the check out to MCMG and send your registration to:

Janet Bishop
MCMG
P. O. Box 407
Morton Grove, IL 60053-0407

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