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SCMG Meeting September 30, 2003 in Richmond, VA |
| Time | Session | Presenter |
| 8:15 - 9:00 |
Registration and Continental
Breakfast |
Sponsored by Applied
Expert Systems |
| 9:00 - 9:50 |
Welcome and Overview of
CMG and CMG National Conference 2003 |
Bryan Drake - SCMG Regional
Chair |
| 10:00 - 10:50 | Linux on the Mainframe | Curt Jews |
| 11:00 – 11:50 | It’s All About Performance | Catherine Liu |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | Sponsored by Computer Associates |
| 1:30 - 2:25 |
Capacity and Performance
Free-for-all |
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| 2:30 - 3:25 |
No More Downloading
- Using SAS/ODS to Create SAS Graphs and HTML Documents for
OS/390 Systems |
Pat
Wingfield |
| 3:30 - 4:30 |
Seeing
the Forest AND the Trees: Capacity Planning for a Large Number
of Servers |
Linwood Merritt |
Abstracts:
Seeing
the Forest AND the Trees: Capacity Planning for a Large Number
of Servers
Linwood Merritt, Capitol One Services, Inc.
This author's capacity planning learning expertise was built on
a limited number of servers. Specifically, it involved analyzing
and reporting workloads on a few mainframe footprints and, eventually,
a few dozen distributed (Unix and NT) servers. His environment
today includes hundreds of distributed servers along with larger
mainframe footprints. The challenge in this increasingly common
environment is to manage the complexity of capacity planning and
reporting for this explosion in the numbers and types of data
processing platforms.
Linux
in an LPAR - Here's How It's Done
Curt Jews, IBM Corporation
IBM S/390 or zSeries processors have been capable of running Linux
since December 1999. But, if you were asked to evaluate or actually
implement Linux in your S/390 environment, would you know where
to start? Or, maybe you have actually installed Linux on a desktop
system or another server. Do you know what would be required to
accomplish this on an IBM zSeries server?
Linux on zSeries servers can run natively or virtualized using LPAR or z/VM. This session will focus on running Linux in an LPAR without z/VM as a host. There will be a discussion of the planning that should proceed the actual installation process. Then, the presenter will walk through an actual scenario for installing Linux in an LPAR using one of the available Linux for zSeries distributions as an example.
No
More Downloading – Using SAS/ODS to Create SAS Graphs and
HTML Documents for OS/390 Systems
Pat Wingfield, Bank of
America
With the advent of mainframe
web server software, such as IBM's 'OS/390 HTTP Server', and with
SAS Release 8's new ODS facility, it is now possible to create
HTML documents in S/390 data sets - PDS/E, sequential or HFS.
Graphs and web pages stored in these OS/390 data sets can be viewed
via a web browser. It is no longer necessary to download the documents
to another type of platform for viewing on the internet or intranet.
This paper covers SAS coding techniques that you should find helpful
for developing HTML and SAS/GRAPH documents for storing and displaying
on OS/390 systems.
It's
All About Performance
Catherine Liu, Applied
Expert Systems
Success in today's 24/7 global business environment often hinges
on the ability to manage network availability and performance,
understand routing patterns, and maintain mission-critical Web
sites. In the end it really boils down to one thing: It's all
about performance! Management, Monitoring, Reporting and performance
Service Level Objectives will be discussed. Sample Reports will
be used to show how users can use key performance indicators to
manage OS/390-based TCP/IP networks and Web applications.
Speakers:
Curt Jews
Sr. Consulting IT Specialist in the IBM Washington Systems Center,
has been an IBM advanced technical support specialist for over
22 years. He has led the IBM field and customer support efforts
for various S/390, now zSeries, operating system technologies.
In the past he has been the WSC technical team leader for OS/390,
z/OS, and Parallel Sysplex. Currently, he is the WSC technical
team leader for zSeries Linux, Grid Computing, and other IBM emerging
business opportunities.
Curt is a frequent speaker at SHARE, IBM Learning Services conferences, and IBM internal workshops nationally and internationally.
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Started data processing career in 1970 as a Simulation Analyst.
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US CMG member since CMG84.
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Worked at Capital One Services, Inc. in Richmond VA since January 2001.
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Project Manager of the "Enterprise Wide Capacity and Performance" project of SHARE since August 1994.
- Published 14 CMG papers (not counting 1 additional for UKCMG 2003) and presented at 24 SHARE conferences.
- Won CMG97 Mullen award for presentation "Performance Data from the Server to the Intranet: Getting the Data and Reporting It," and presented it at UKCMG in 1998.
Pat Wingfield
Pat is currently employed by Bank of America in Richmond, Virginia,
where she is a member of the Mainframe Capacity Reporting team.
She has about twenty-five years experience in information technology,
primarily as an OS/390 and MVS systems programmer and performance
and capacity planning analyst.
Catherine Liu
President and co-founder of Applied Expert Systems, has over 20
years experience in performance and capacity management. She is
active in the performance and capacity management field, having
published and presented papers at many major domestic and international
industry conferences. Since receiving her Masters in Statistics
from Stanford University, she has spent over 20 years managing software
product development, with companies such as the Institute for Software
Engineering and Boole & Babbage, Inc., where she was responsible
for directing expert system software product development. At AES,
her focus has been on network performance solutions to empower performance
analysis supporting eBusiness initiatives.
Sponsors
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Computer Associates |
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Applied Expert Systems |
