CMG 2002  |  DECEMBER 8 - 13  |  RENO, NV Maximize Your Potential at CMG2002 Sunday Workshops (Ivan Gelb, POC) "An all day brunch for your brain." 7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast 8:30 am - 12:00 pm AM sessions Peter Enrico Sid Finehirsh & Juliette Meinstein Mark Friedman Steve Samson Odysseas Pentakalos, Ph.D. Eric Siegel 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm PM sessions Glenn Anderson Bernie Domanski Neil Gunther Daniel Menasce Ph.D. Randy Kerns Al Sherkow Glenn Anderson IBM Learning Services Understanding and Managing z/OS WebSphere Workloads Using WLM and RMF WebSphere Version 4.0.1 for z/OS and OS/390 brings a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) runtime environment to z/OS and OS/390, allowing you to now run EJB applications along with web applications (servlets and JSP's). This session begins with a look at EJBs and J2EE. It moves on to a walk through of assembling and deploying EJB and web applications into the WAS V4 runtime. It will also review the ways the z/OS Workload Manager (WLM) interacts with WebSphere V4.0.1 and conclude with a view of how this new WebSphere workload looks in RMF. Dr. Bernie Domanski College of Staten Island/CUNY Visual Basic Power Programming for EXCEL This half-day workshop will quickly introduce you to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) which comes packaged with Excel. We'll go over the basics of the language, and turn up the power on your own applications as we review lots of code examples of utilities, 3D charts, and more. We'll look at creating menus, and how to work with external databases too. Worried that you don't know enough coming into the workshop? If you remember what an IF statement is, and you know how to start Excel, and enter a simple formula in a cell, then you know enough! Peter Enrico Enterprise Performance Strategies WebSphere Performance Measurement and Management on z/OS During this half-day seminar, Peter Enrico will introduce you to the basic concepts of the IBM HTTP Server and WebSphere on zArchitecture and S/390. This introduction will be from a performance analyst's point of view. The workshop will introduce you to the measurement and performance management of these web-serving environments. You will learn how to assess the performance of your web workloads on z/OS and OS/390 by using measurements available from products such as RMF and CMF. This session will also introduce the newest HTTP Server measurements in the SMF 103 record, and the newest WebSphere measurements in the SMF 120 records. Sid Finehirsh & Juliette Meinstein CMX Group Consulting From Performance Measurement to IT Scorecard Over the past 12 months "Scorecarding" has become the most talked about method of communicating IT success or failure. This workshop presents the Scorecard process and shows how to avoid the pitfalls of Scorecard implementation. It explains how Scorecards can help improve IT performance and demonstrate IT value. Additionally, the session examines how to use Scorecards to effectively communicate and collaborate within IT and to the corporation. Mark Friedman DataCore Software Corporation Windows .NET: An Overview of Performance This session reviews the architecture of the Microsoft Windows .NET server platform, focusing on performance issues of concern to application developers, system administrators, and capacity planners. The capabilities of both hardware and software are discussed, along with strategies for monitoring the performance of .NET servers and applications. Key performance metrics encompassing the processor, memory use, disk performance, and networking are discussed, along with the major configuration and tuning options that are available. Tools and techniques for identifying .NET transaction processing workloads and their response times and resource utilization are also considered. Neil Gunther Performance Dynamics Company ASAP: Assuring Scalability for Application Performance Application scalability is key to success for most organizations. But, the new application, when finally deployed, often fails to meet performance expectations. Can we do better and can we do quickly (ASAP)? That's the subject of this Sunday workshop This workshop will compare various techniques to help you ensure scalability for your company's applications ... as quickly as possible! Randy Kerns The Evaluator Group Storage Management in a Storage Network As storage networking matures in the data center environment, the management of storage becomes the focal point for storage professionals. Storage management represents a significant financial issue for information technology. Part of the confusion is understanding what functions constitute storage management and where the information is accumulated and the management performed. This education session will delineate the storage management functions and identify the approaches being taken to address the different aspects. The different areas of management in a storage network and their coordination represent a great potential gain for companies in accommodating storage growth and reducing administrative costs. Understanding all the issues and the techniques are necessary to establish a strategy and make informed decisions. This session will provide that foundation of knowledge. Daniel A. Menasce Ph.D. George Mason University Fundamental Concepts in Performance and Capacity Planning This workshop presents fundamental concepts that everyone involved with performance measurement, application performance management, load testing, and capacity planning should know. These fundamental concepts, based on Operational Laws of Computer Performance and on easy-to-understand and easy-to-solve performance models, are presented within the context of numerous examples including Web, e-commerce, and client/server systems. Conference attendees are encouraged to bring laptops loaded with MS Excel to this hands-on workshop. Odysseas Pentakalos, Ph.D. SYSNET International Inc. Java Performance Tuning This workshop will provide a comprehensive overview on the development of high-performance Java-based applications and on the tuning of existing applications. Particular emphasis will be placed on enterprise and server-side applications. The workshop will begin by reviewing the execution process of a Java application moving next to coverage of Java virtual machines and their impact on the performance of an application. The next section will cover tuning tips that may be used during development of an application, covering different areas of the Java programming language ranging from the object life cycle, to I/O performance, to synchronization effects and multi-threading, and the proper selection of data structures and algorithms. The workshop will also describe some of the benchmarks that are available to assist you with building a high-performance Java application and load-testing tools for helping you detect bottlenecks. We will also illustrate the process of improving the performance of an existing Java application by profiling the execution of a real-world application. Steve Samson Candle Corporation Selected Workload Manager Advanced Topics OK, so you finally got to goal mode. Are you getting all you can out of it? This workshop looks at some advanced capabilities of goal mode - three flavors of server management including CICS, IMS, application environments, and WLM-managed initiators, as well as enclaves and their exploitation. The content will be updated until just before presentation to reflect the latest announcements, the hottest new topics, and some unfinished business. The presentation will be followed by a WLM Q&A, so please bring your questions. Al Sherkow I/S Management Strategies Ltd IBM's Workload License Charges and IRD This workshop will give you essential knowledge about IBM's z/OS License Manager and PR/SM's Intelligent Resource Director. The key concept is that the charge for several important IBM software products is based on the size of the LPAR rather than the size of the machine; other IBM products have a fixed charge regardless of the size of the machine. To control your software costs you can set the "defined capacity" of your LPARs on a z900 to be smaller than the "true limit" of their capacity determined by the number of LPs. Learn PR/SM's new IRD capabilities: how they work, why you want to use them and how these capabilities will change your reporting and capacity planning. Today many sites are configured in an effort to control software costs. Configuration of your LPARs on z900s will be different than on 9672s. With WLC, IRD and Parallel Sysplex many of these configurations can be changed to further reduce your expenses and improve the flexibility within your configuration. The workshop will include real examples of how sites can leverage WLC. You'll learn the steps to use at your site to evaluate and plan for WLC and IRD. Eric Siegel Keynote Systems How the Internet Works: Performance Aspects of Internet Technologies This seminar will explain the basic mechanisms underlying the Internet and the Web, concentrating on the effects they have on end-to-end performance. Major topics include: Internet and Web performance factors of protocol behavior, browser and HTTP behavior, DNS, routing, and peering Technologies for optimizing site performance, including load balancing, traffic distribution, caching, and content distribution networks Notes about Internet statistics and system management for high availability and performance