MidwestCMG

Wednesday October 17, 2007

8:30 AM

Registration and Coffee in the Bulls Head Room on the 14th Floor

9:00 AM

Opening - Welcome – Margaret Greenberg, MCMG President

9:15 AM

zIIPS and zAAPs - Understanding Transaction Flows and CPU Measurements

Peter Enrico, Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc.

Today’s transactions on z/OS can run on zIIP and zAAP processors, as well as traditional general purpose processors. This session will discuss some typical transaction flows involving zIIP and zAAP processors and how the CPU time consumed is accumulated to the address space SMF 30, the processor SMF 70, and the WLM service class period SMF 72.3 records. Additional topics discussed will include dependent and independent enclaves, client SRBs, unmanaged treads, and other key concepts necessary to understand the interpretation of zIIP and zAAP CPU times.

This will be helpful to further get a grip on details of the two engines and their strengths.

10:30 AM

Morning Break

10:45 AM

A Cookbook Approach to Performing a z/OS Performance Health Check

Peter Enrico, Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc.

Likely to be on zOS 1.8 or kindred topic.

11:50 AM

CMG 2007
Richard Ralston, CMG Director

Rick will present all the convincing reasons you should attend CMG and, possibly some further information from the CMG Board. In the event Rick is unavailable, we will still provide the update.

12:05 PM

Lunch in Brio on 15th floor

1:15 PM

Performance Monitoring Process for Out of Standard Applications
John Van Wagenen, Caterpillar

John and his team have identified Caterpillar’s applications and track monthly cpu utilization, then calculate the expected performance baseline. Each month all applications are measured for current activity and compared to the baseline; those which exceed a specified variance are designated as “out of standard” or OOS for short. The OOS bad boys are scrutinized to determine the cause of variance and are assigned one of three dispositions to the OOS application: anomaly, growth or tuning. For those wishing a user experience presentation, this will be very interesting and thought provoking.

2:15 PM

Afternoon Break

2:30 PM

 Performance Prediction for Multi-tier Distributed Environment

Boris Zibitsker, BEZ Systems
 

This condensed version of his Sunday Workshop is designed for professionals who would like to learn the fundamentals of building and applying analytical models to proactively manage the performance of applications in multi-tier distributed environments including Web Servers, Application Servers based on Web Logic and Web Sphere as well as Oracle 10g, 10g RAC and DB2 UDB ESE DBMS supporting parallel processing. As usual, Boris will provide volumes of useful information to enable us to be up to date in current methodology.

4:00 PM

Meeting Adjourned

Preregistration:

  $ 85.00

Walk-in registration:

  $100.00

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

Questions/concerns:

Contact Mr. Jon Keister, who will be glad to answer your questions via phone (847-276-1224) or email:  jon.keister@caremark.com.