SCMG Meeting Atlanta
April 21, 2004

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Peter Enrico

Peter Enrico, of Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc., has strong and diverse experience with the IBM S/390 and zArchitecture platforms, and a solid background in Workload Manager, WebSphere, Java, J2EE architecture, and Web Services on the zArchitecture platform. His expertise extends to OS/390 and z/OS performance management, Parallel Sysplex, UNIX System Services, and the many components of e-business performance on MVS.

Peter Enrico is a well-known and effective lecturer and seminar instructor. He teaches on a wide array of topics including Workload Manager, WebSphere for z/OS, basic MVS performance, Parallel Sysplex, UNIX System Services, and much more. His classes include WLM Performance and Re-evaluation of Goals, S/390 Java, J2EE, Web Serving and WebSphere on z/OS Performance, and Essential z/OS Performance Tuning. All have drawn great praise from a wide variety of customers and corporations.

More information about Peter Enrico can be found at http://www.epstrategies.com.

Peter is a regular speaker at SHARE, IBM's zOS Expo, both national and regional CMGs, and a variety of international conferences.

Richard Panarese

Richard Panarese, Senior Professional Services Consultant, BMC Software, has 20+ years of experience as an information technology professional in various industry segments. He has expertise in strategic planning and process design. Over the last 3 years he has been working at BMC Software as a Performance Consultant. As a consultant, he has participated in two of the company's largest Professional Services engagements, one to perform a large-scale server consolidation and second to design the processes used to support performance management activities for global financial services firm.

Abstracts:

Introduction to J2EE and WebSphere Concepts
Presenter: Peter Enrico - Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc.

This presentation will be a high level overview of the J2EE architectural standard, as well as an introduction to WebSphere on z/OS. The purpose of this presentation is to help you gain a better working knowledge of the e-business technologies, J2EE standard, and what it means to be a J2EE application server. Also included in this session will be an overview of WebSphere on z/OS and how, and why, a product such as WebSphere is needed to satisfy the J2EE standard.

So if you are curious what a Enterprise JavaBean is (and why it is not the same as a JavaBean) then you will find this session of interest. You will become familiar with terms such as JVM, Servlet, EJB, JSP, Connector, application server, web server, and many more concepts.

WLM - The Lives and Times of Transactions on z/OS
Presenter: Peter Enrico - Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc.

z/OS allows all sorts of workloads to run on the zArchitecture platform.

But what the heck is a transaction? We've spend years analyzing transactions for TSO, Batch, CICS, IMS, USS, DB2, and started tasks. Now, however, we have transactions are entering the z/OS system from a web browser or other system, running in a HTTP Server, which in turn may drive a transaction in a WebSphere Application Server, which in turn may be drive a transaction in a back-end system such as CICS, IMS, and / or DB2. Is it possible to get a view of the transactions response time from when it enters z/OS until it completes?

This paper will explore the current meaning of transactions on z/OS, and the understanding of transactional flows, the WLM view of various transaction types, and some aspects of CPU accountability and response time components of the various z/OS transactions.

Server Consolidation
Presenter: Rich Panarese - BMC Software

The drive to lower IT Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) leads to distributed system server consolidation and shared environments. New business trends including quickly expanding e-commerce web servers also steer IT towards larger, centralized platforms. These trends present a host of challenges that aggressive performance management best practices can address: planning how to best consolidate workloads, optimizing transaction performance while minimizing cost per transaction, purchasing the right resources at the right time, evaluating disaster recovery fail-over scenarios, and supporting fair cost allocation (charge-back). By retaining clear insight into "who" is doing "what" in consolidated hosts and proactively planning for change with predictive modeling, companies can save money while delivering optimal guaranteed service.

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BMC Software enables you to monitor and manage business services, along with the technology infrastructure supporting them—applications, data, systems and networks—simultaneously.