Spring ‘99 FORUM
March 11-12, 1999
Sheraton Denver West - 360 Union Boulevard, Lakewood CO (303) 987-2000
AGENDA THURSDAY MARCH 11 -
8:00-9:00 Registration and Annual Business Meeting
9:00-10:00 "Enterprise TCP/IP and Route Management"
Catherine Liu, Applied Expert Systems, Inc.
The understanding of IP routing patterns can assist greatly in IP network performance tuning, such as identifying the most usage segment, most congested segment, as well as routes with no backups, and routes that are not balanced. This session will discuss the approach of enterprise based routing analysis. It will demonstrate that with enterprise route data collection, geographical configuration and an analytical approach, enterprise route analysis can be managed to improve IP service level performance. Sample reports will be presented. Performance and operations management for the enterprise TCP/IP networking environment will also be discussed. It will address automated solutions for both availability and performance monitoring in real time as well as historical trending reports for capacity planning. Sample reports will be presented.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:15 "NT Benchmarking"
Dr. Bernard Domanski, The Information Systems Manager and CUNY/CSI
Our objective here is simply to identify the current state-of-the-art in benchmarking the speed of processors capable of running Window NT®. We will describe some of the standard processor ratings and benchmarks that currently exist in the industry, and, where possible, we will offer ratings of various processors. Our research indicates that a fair amount of work has been done in developing different benchmark suites that correspond to different workloads, each yielding different processor ratings. Finally, pointers to World Wide Web sites will be provided for the reader to access more information on a particular subject.
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 "Concepts in Software Performance Engineering"
Dr. Connie U. Smith and Dr. Lloyd G. Williams
"Experiences with Software Performance Engineering"
Jay Arbabha, First Data Corporation
Dr. Smith and Dr. Williams will be discussing their research into Software Performance techniques. Mr. Arbabha will describe experiences at First Data with adopting and using the SPE techniques. He will present results achieved on two critical projects. He will also describe the strategy used to encourage developers to adopt and use SPE practices for their benefit.
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 "Goal-Based Initiator Management "
John Arwe, IBM
It was only a matter of time: MVS Workload Manager (WLM) and the Job Entry Subsystem (JES2) in OS/390 Release 4 intend to remove another bastion of unfettered tinkering, your initiation structure. How many initiators do you need? In which job classes? When? Is it better to over-initiate or underinitiate? On which systems? It's not as bad as it sounds of course. Separate the rumors from the facts and the fiction as we explore the changes being made to WLM and JES2. Find out how WLM can now use goals to manage the number and placement of initiators across a sysplex, what long-overdue measurement data will now be reported, why your critical path batch work is safe, the migration issues, and the operational implications of using this new capability. Abstract resource affinity support will be mentioned in passing but will not be considered in detail.
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:15
"Business Process Management: The Big Post-Y2K Challenge"The Y2K issue has been the IT black hole of the 90s, sucking up resources and energy in vast quantities. So what’s next for IT Management? We think one of the top challenges will be managing business processes. We’ll cover what we mean by business process management, what metrics are involved, how they might be gathered, and how they might be integrated into existing performance, management reporting, and capacity planning systems.
AGENDA FRIDAY MARCH 12 -
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:30 "Introduction To Fibre Channel Connectivity" Wayne Munson, Performance Associates, Inc.
With the current development of Storage Area Networks, clustering technologies, and gigabit networks, is it time for you gain an understanding of Fibre Channel technology? This paper will present the basics of Fibre Channel technology including topologies, functional levels, physical media, and packets and frames.
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 "Strategic Storage Snapshots" Fred Moore, Horison Information Strategies, Inc.
Every individual and business can have the same computer hardware, the same purchased software applications, and the same network fabric, but none have the same data. Data is now the DNA of an organization and has become the ultimate differentiating factor and competitive tool between businesses today. This paper will highlight future advances in data storage technologies including disk, tape, optical, emerging applications, networks and look at long-range trends and projections.
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 "OS/390 Workload Manager Controls for I/O " Dr. H. Pat Artis, Performance Associates, Inc.
When compared to the traditional SRM, the goal mode facilities Incorporated in the workload manager provide a far simpler control mechanism which can easily transform business objectives into system goals. However, without active controls for I/O, it is difficult or impossible for the WLM to significantly change the response times or throughputs perceived by system users. This paper will review the I/O control facilities provided by the traditional SRM as well as the DCME component of DFSMS/MVS, explore the I/O control facilities provided by the WLM prior to OS/390 R3, and hypothesize about how future releases (i.e., R3 and beyond) of the OS/390 WLM will exploit the control facilities provided by the new generation of storage subsystems typified by IBM's Shark.
At press time, these speakers are confirmed. RMCMG reserves the right to substitute without notice in case of cancellation beyond our control.