FALL 2000 FORUM
September 22, 2000
Sheraton Denver West - 360 Union Boulevard, Lakewood CO (303) 987-2000
AGENDA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22
8:00-8:30 Registration / Breakfast
8:30-9:30 "Capacity Management for Very Large Data Warehouses Supporting e-Business Applications," Boris Zibitsker, BEZ Systems
UNIX time-share schedulers have a loophole that is bad for enterprise server management because it favors greedy users with many small processes. Solaris 2.6 Systems Resource Manager (SRM) introduces a new paradigm that constrains the scheduler to be 'fare' to all users. This talk will introduce the SRM scheduler principles of operation and present guidelines for capacity planning using share allocations. A comparison with IBM's Workload Manager (WLM) in Goal Mode will take us into the second talk.9:30-9:45 Break
9:45-10:45 "Workload Manager and CICS: New Options and New Insights," Steve Samson, Senior Technical Staff Member at Candle Corporation
Since the announcement of Workload Manager (WLM) in 1994, the interaction between CICS and WLM goal mode has been a frequent matter for concern. Many who implement goal mode see the complexity of the CICS interface and the difficulty of exploiting response time goals; they give up and stay on velocity goals with no intent to change.
On May 16, 2000, IBM announced a series of new facilities to be available in the September 2000 time frame to overcome some objections to goal mode. Some optional changes to the way CICS operates in goal mode are among those new facilities. This paper presents the new facilities as they apply to CICS as well as a new and less disruptive approach to goal mode migration and exploitation for CICS.
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Vendor Presentation: "Mainview Predict: The Best/1 Just Got Better,"
Denise P. Kalm, Sr. Software Consultant, BMC Software, Inc.Analytic modeling takes weeks of effort and can only be accomplished by a very senior performance analyst. NOT! With the new appliance technology available with Mainview Predict, models can now be generated quickly and easily. The greater the systems knowledge base, the more deeply a model can be analyzed, but for many growth studies and what-if scenarios, less senior capacity planners can now make use of this modeling tool. Mainview Predict offers the familiar ISPF-Interface (formerly known as Best/1 Datacenter) and now introduces a Windows NT GUI-interface with "appliances" -- tools that include automation and wizards, to mask the complexity of analytic modeling from the user. The new approach is "outside in;" begin with the business service level agreement, working down to analyze the hardware and costs. This change in view addresses the fact that business functions and transactions are increasingly driven by external end users. Release 1 addresses the new paradigm and offers both interfaces to more fully address capacity planner and performance analyst’s needs.
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 "End User Response Time - Feeling Their Pain," Jane Davis, Product Manager, BMC Software
This presentation looks at the drivers towards measuring response time, and how that affects the choice of approach. It also takes a look at the advantages and disadvantages of the leading approaches to measuring response time, and suggests some strategies in using this type of data in performance and availability management.
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:00 "The Virtual Reality of Disaster Recovery: What about Tape?," Steve Blenderman, Chief VSM Architect, Storage Technology Corporation
The introduction of virtual tape into the enterprise has significant implications for business continuance in the event of a disaster, large or small. This section will look at the Virtual Tape offerings from various vendors and the capabilities that each provides for recovering from different levels of disaster.
At press time, these speakers are confirmed. RMCMG reserves the right to substitute without notice in case of cancellation beyond our control.