For nearly 20 years, ASPG, Inc. has provided cutting edge software solutions, support and services. With a worldwide network of support, including an active role as an IBM PartnerWorld Development Partner, ASPG remains a leader in the optimization of data center performance - offering focused solutions in the areas of Storage Administration, Capacity Planning, System Productivity, Data Security and CICS Productivity. If you are not using software from ASPG, you probably know someone that is...One in three GLOBAL 1000 data centers have selected ASPG software solutions to increase productivity, protect data and solve critical issues in their mainframe environment.

It's all about performance! Applied Expert Systems, Inc., specializes in intelligent CLEVER ePerformance Solutions for enterprise eNetwork performance management: CLEVER Web monitors end-to end eBusiness Web application performance. CLEVER eRoute offers enterprise-wide IP route performance management and service-level control. CLEVER TCP/IP (for Windows and Java) measures network performance for OS/390 TCP/IP-based transactions and network management with FTP, SessionLog, Telnet, and API Experts, plus Connect Expert. CLEVER cTrace Plus diagnoses tough TCP/IP and LU6.2 problems, including network connectivity and performance issues. CLEVER ePerformance Solutions give you the vital ability to manage network availability/performance, understand routing patterns, and maintain mission-critical Web sites.

Aptitune Corporation is the manufacturer of SarCheck. SarCheck takes UNIX performance tuning beyond the others. Instead of merely producing graphs that require more interpretation, SarCheck analyzes sar report information and ps -elf output and examines the system’s tunable parameters with their interaction toward each other. Then in a concise, plain English report, SarCheck identifies problem areas and makes recommendations for corrective action. SarCheck uses gnuplot to create JPEG or PNG graphs on the fly and inserts them into its HTML output producing illustrative graphs with accompanying text. We’re the folks with the propeller hats! - come by and get one while they last.

ASG’s business is to partner with clients to improve productivity and significantly enhance performance through the intelligent use of technology. Founded in 1986, ASG is a privately-held global enterprise software and professional services firm that provides a full range of software solutions in the Security Management, Applications Management, Operations Management, Information Management, Performance Management, and Infrastructure Management arenas - including business re-engineering, systems integration, and systems development. ASG has 7,000 customer sites, and 18,000 software licenses worldwide.

ASG is headquartered in Naples, Florida, USA, with over 40 offices throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia/Pacific. For more information, visit ASG at www.asg.com.

AwareNautics is an analysis, data visualization and presentation company that provides software and consulting services for enterprises that need to insure the competence of their data processing environments. Application responsiveness, stability, health and Quality of Service are the company focus. Integration is a keyword in the AwareNautics vocabulary and the hallmark of AwareView software.

Axios Products, Inc., provides a variety of software products designed to address mainframe performance issues. Visit us at booth #324 to learn about the SmartProduction® batch analysis and tuning tool, and the SmartAnalyzer™ for DMS backup auditing utility.

SmartProduction decreases the resource consumption and elapsed run time of production jobs, reducing the batch window by as much as 30%! It identifies the best candidates for improvement and provides solutions that deliver improvements in production performance.

SmartAnalyzer™ for DMS addresses issues within onsite application backup. It helps protect important business data by identifying problems in the way data is backed up by the DMS disk management system.

BEZ Systems offers strategic performance management and capacity planning software for VLDB and data warehouses running on DB2 UDB, Oracle and Teradata. Only BEZ delivers an integrated analysis of data consumption, workloads and hardware resources-from which you can focus on your most critical problems, understand performance alternatives in context to your other resources, and predict the impact of expected changes before you make them. BEZ aligns the technical view of your system with a user or business perspective, so you can understand who’s using what resources based on line of business, functional business area, geography or other, organizational-specific standpoints.

BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE:BMC], is a leader in enterprise management. The company focuses on Assuring Business Availability® for its customers by helping them proactively improve service, reduce costs and increase value to their business. BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications and databases. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and is a member of the S&P 500, with fiscal year 2002 revenues of approximately $1.3 billion. Visit www.bmc.com to learn more.

Privately-held Chicago-Soft, Ltd. develops and markets corporate productivity and management software for mainframe, Windows and web-based systems. Chicago-Soft's software helps programmers, systems analysts and network administrators manage their corporate system's operations in a timely, efficient and cost-effective manner.

Founded in 1982, Chicago-Soft provides several popular and widely respected products including MVS/Quick-Ref, the world's fastest on-line documentation and reference facility, with a product database including more than 12 million lines of documentation, supporting more than 500 products from 50 major ISVs. In 2003 Chicago-Soft introduces Cadii & ISPF PLUS.

Chicago-Soft has more than 2,500 corporate clients in over 43 countries.

The CIMS Suite of products provides Capacity Planning, Resource Accounting and Chargeback across the entire Enterprise. CIMS data collectors support all major platforms and systems such as OS/390, UNIX, Windows, Databases, E-Mail Systems, Networks, Internet and more.

CIMS is always working with its customers to develop new features and products to improve Capacity Planning, Resource Accounting and Chargeback. Some of the most recent additions to our system include support for:

Windows CPU Processes
SQL Server
SAN and Windows Disk Space
Web Based Drill-Down Reporting
Storage Systems
Networks

To learn more about the CIMS System, please stop by the CIMS booth (#320).

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) delivers software that manages a company's infrastructure. CA's world-leading solutions address today's most critical business processes, information and technology management challenges, allowing customers and partners to gain and sustain competitive advantages. CA's field-proven and critically acclaimed software portfolio focuses on six solution areas: enterprise management, security, storage, business transformation and integration, portal and knowledge management and predictive analysis and visualization. More than two decades of continuous innovation and unwavering commitment to quality make CA the technology partner-of-choice for technology solutions. For more information, please visit ca.com.

Computer Management Sciences offers CPExpert™ to help analyze performance problems with MVS environments. CPExpert automates computer performance evaluation by detecting system performance problems, identifying the causes of the problems, and suggesting ways to improve system performance. Different components of CPExpert analyze performance problems with DB2, Workload Manager, CICS, DASD, (and for compatibility mode: SRM, MVS, and TSO).

CPExpert is written in SAS and is composed of hundreds of expert system rules, analysis modules, and queuing models. CPExpert executes as a batch job, and analyzes standard SMF/RMF data contained in your MXG, SAS/ITSV, or MICS performance data base.

Compuware Corporation provides business value through software and professional services that optimize productivity and reduce costs across the application life cycle. Compuware's market-leading solutions accelerate development, assure quality, control delivery, and ensure availability of your enterprise applications. Compuware Vantage is an end-to-end performance management solution for distributed applications, monitoring the entire application from the end-user, through the network, to the server and database tiers. STROBE measures the activity of OS/390-based online and batch processing applications, and provides details about where and how time is being spent during an application's execution. To learn more, visit www.compuware.com.

Demand Technology Software is the proud developer of Performance SeNTry, the premiere Windows Server 2003 performance data collector on the market today. Performance SeNTry is designed with the professional performance analyst and capacity planner in mind. When you combine Performance SeNTry's intelligent data collection capabilities with incredible reports from Lund MetaView and Performance Gallery, Merrill's MXG, SAS, and SAS Institute's IT Resource Manager, you have the ability, for the first time, to take control of your critical Windows servers and applications.

EMC Corporation is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing automated networked storage solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to better and more cost-effectively manage, protect and share their information. For more information about EMC's products and services please stop by our booth (#526) at the CMG 2003 Conference or visit our website at www.EMC.com

Fundamental Software, Inc. builds mainframe computers in software. FSI's premier product, FLEX-ES(R), is the only proven mainframe in software for the traditional IT enterprise, the server-centric data center, and the mainframe developer. FLEX-ES runs mission-critical mainframe applications under all System/390(R) operating systems, supports most traditional peripherals, and provides innovative emulated and SCSI mainframe devices.

HyPerformix offers enterprise performance solutions to Global 2000 companies, enabling them to predict, optimize and validate end-to-end performance of mission-critical applications and IT infrastructures. Our enterprise approach to performance management combines leading-edge technology, extensive performance engineering expertise, and a proven, performance-assurance methodology.

Specifically, we enable our customers to predict enterprise-wide performance, optimize existing IT infrastructures for improved ROI, and validate mission-critical systems before and after deployment.

HyPerformix is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices throughout the United States as well as in the United Kingdom, France, and Japan.

IBM is the world’s largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more information about IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com.

The Information Systems Manager (ISM) is a recognized international leader in enterprise wide IT capacity, performance tools and services, providing clear and concise answers to the complex management questions posed by today’s multi-platform enterprise environment.

ISM’s PerfMan provides an enterprise wide view of the IT environment, reducing management and strategic planning complexities, allowing for more insightful decision making, and greater alignment of IR with strategic corporate objectives and business goals.

PerfMan offerings support:

Windows, UNIX/Linux, and OS/390, z/OS analysis, reporting and modeling
CiCS, DB2, Oracle, Exchange, SQL Server, IIS, and Active Directory
Tapes Libraries, Networks, and Web Servers

Stop by booth #319 for more information on PerfMan solutions.

Keynote Systems (Nasdaq "KEYN"), The Internet Performance Authority®, is the global leader in Internet performance management and testing services that improve the quality of e-business. Keynote's services enable corporate enterprises to benchmark, diagnose, test and manage their e-business systems both inside and outside the firewall. More than 2,300 corporate IT departments and 16,000 individual subscribers rely on the company's easy-to-use and cost-effective services to optimize revenues and reduce downtime costs without requiring additional complex and costly software implementations.

Keynote markets global real-time services for measuring, assuring, comparing and improving the quality of service of e-business Web sites around the world. Keynote's outsourced Web performance management and testing services and appliances require no configuration or update maintenance by customers. All the software runs on Keynote's globally distributed infrastructure of measurement computers and delivers results that can be accessed in real-time over the Internet through any standard Web browser.

Mercury Interactive, the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO), delivers the Optane™ Suite, a family of products for application delivery, application management, and IT governance that enables customers to optimize business processes and maximize business results. Customers worldwide use Mercury Interactive’s Optane Suite to improve quality and performance, reduce costs, and align IT with business goals.

Our leading-edge BTO software and services are complemented by technologies and services from our global business partners, and are used by more than 30,000 customers - including 75 percent of Fortune 500 companies. For more information, visit www.mercuryinteractive.com.

MXG is a comprehensive SAS-based software package which processes data records used for Measurement of Performance Objectives and Resource Utilization, for System Tuning, for Cost Recovery and Accounting, and for Capacity Measurement and Management with menu-driven graphical reports and analyses.

MXG supports data from all operating systems (AS/400, OS/390, z/OS, z/VM, unix, aix, Windows, etc.), and all of their subsystems.

MXG can be executed under SAS on any platform to process data records created on any other platform.

Metron-Athene is the systems performance management and capacity planning specialist. Our flagship product, Athene, is the leading performance management software solution providing measurement, analysis, planning and reporting capabilities for UNIX, Linux, Windows, z/OS and OS/390 mainframe environments.

For UNIX, Linux and Windows Servers, Athene captures and collects performance data from target systems and provides applications that exploit this data for alert management, performance analysis, Oracle and SQL Server performance reporting, trend analysis and analytical modeling.

Athene for OS/390 is an integrated set of capacity management tools for IBM running MVS, OS/390 or z/OS. Performance data is captured from target systems (using standard data sources) and client applications exploit this data for performance analysis, Oracle performance reporting, trend analysis and analytical modeling.

If you’re a Performance Analyst who’s been given the task of improving your batch window processing, you must look at ThruPut Manager.

ThruPut Manager’s ‘Complete Job Setup’ can save a great deal of elapsed processing time, shortening your batch window processing time and getting your reports out and your online up faster. This is achieved by avoiding the unproductive delays that get in the way, not only for production but for all your batch workload.

Join us at our presentation and visit booth #417 to see ThruPut Manager in action solving typical problems encountered by data centers everywhere.

Founded in 1986, serving more than 35,000 members in over 80 countries, NaSPA, the Network and Systems Professionals Association, is a not-for-profit, independent corporation not owned in part by any manufacturer of software or hardware. Technical Support magazine is the official magazine of NaSPA, dedicated to the IT professionals who implement, support and manage their company’s integrated operating environments. All corporate computing professionals are welcome to join NaSPA, Inc.

NetIQ Corporation is a leading provider of Systems & Security Management solutions. In addition to our industry-leading solutions for managing Windows, NetIQ provides a wide selection of enterprise products to help you manage all of your essential distributed platforms-UNIX, Linux and Windows-all from a single console. Our out-of-the-box solutions install in minutes, configure in hours and deploy enterprise-wide in days. Our solutions: Quickly and easily manage, diagnose and analyze the performance and availability of your distributed systems, applications and server infrastructure. Provide the in-depth expertise you need to consolidate your management systems today and manage the next generation of web applications tomorrow.

Availability is now measured as a 24x7x365 metric. NewEra Software helps its users reach 24x7x365 availability of their OS/390 and z/OS operating systems and the major subsystems - JES, VTAM and TCP/IP. Our products, Stand Alone Environment (SAE) and IMAGE Focus will help you avoid problems and improve the integrity of your IPL process. If your organization recognizes the value of continuous improvement, whether it is driven internally or externally by striving to attain Six Sigma designation, ISO 9000 certification or the Malcolm Baldrige Award, our solutions will help you. Visit Booth 127 for a demonstration.

Since 1994, OpenTech Systems, Inc has specialized in the OS/390 tape utility market focusing on disaster recovery for VTL, pre staging datasets into VTL cache, and stacking utilities to backup DASD full volume or incremental volumes to high density Tape.

OpenTech Systems has extensive experience working with the all tape management systems. IBM and STK use the products for tape migration projects performed by their professional services team. With over 200 users from small shops to large multinational organizations, OpenTech has a proven track record of delivery of high quality and value products to satisfy the most challenging needs of the OS390 user community.

OPNET is a leading provider of management software for networks and applications, enabling enterprises to:

1. rapidly diagnose end-to-end performance problems, pre- or post-deployment
2. model server, mainframe, and network infrastructure for capacity planning
3. automate network diagnostics, for policy and configuration change validation

OPNET products deliver a rapid ROI to over 2500 customers, including organizations such as: Citicorp, Microsoft, Office Depot, PetroCanada, and Pier 1 Imports.

For more information about OPNET visit www.opnet.com.

PerfCap Corporation offers over 20 years of solid technical expertise in Performance Management, Capacity Planning and most recently Asset Management solutions. PerfCap’s forte is to deliver technical solutions that allows you to "Do More With Less". We achieve it by providing solutions that automates the process, is web based, low cost, state-of-the-art, and covers end-to-end.

PerfCap product suite includes:

• PAWZ: Web-based, Performance Solution providing automatic data collection, storage (MS-SQL), analysis and reporting.
• eCAP: Provides comprehensive performance and capacity planning tool to analyze performance data and create analytic models for systems, networks and applications.
• FindIT: Web-based, enterprise level Asset Management and Configuration Change Tracking Software providing Centralized automatic inventory control of system hardware, software and licenses.

ProactiveNet is the technology leader in real time, end-to-end, performance measurement and analysis solutions. ProactiveNet can monitor, identify, diagnose and resolve performance problems for online and client server applications using its root cause analysis technologies.

• Historical trending of website response time measurements from within the website itself and from around the world.
• When website slowdowns occur, intelligently identify where the bottleneck is: Internet, application, network, database, server, load balancer, firewall, etc.
• Intelligently identify attributes that are outside their normal performance envelope and find the cause of problems in real time.
• Easily incorporate custom business and application metrics.

Responsive Systems provides specific software products for improving the performance of both DB2 and IMS for z/OS systems and applications. The Buffer Pool Tool® is the only product that can predict the effect of pool tuning possibilities on the I/O rate/second. Using the software to tune a system provides lower elapsed times for both transactions and batch jobs by eliminating I/O activity. This allows the optimization of the memory/performance trade-off while saving CPU cycles. Cache/Xtender can make datasets resident in the DASD controller cache which is much larger and less expensive than mainframe memory. This guarantees response time performance for important datasets.

SAS is the leader in business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at more than 40,00 sites -- including 94 percent of the Fortune Global 500 -- to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions. For more than a quarter century, SAS has delivered The Power to Know®.

SAS® IT Management Solutions provide superior business intelligence to IT organizations by helping them align with corporate goals and continuously prove the value they add.

Join us Monday, December 8, from 9am to 4pm to learn how SAS’ customers measure, manage and understand their IT environments.

SeaNet Partners is a leading provider of capacity planning, network management, and performance measurement solutions that enable enterprises to objectively analyze IT Service levels. SeaNet Partners' network appliance, SeaView/RTM, passively captures TCP/IP network traffic and measures key performance metrics including:

End-to-end response time
Application and server response times
Network response time

SeaView/RTM data is integrated with SeaNet Partners’ SeaView/PDB for analysis and web presentation or can be exported directly to SAS and MXG. SeaView/RTM works with the SMARTS product line to provide real time root cause analysis of service degradation.

StorageTek, a $2 billion worldwide company with headquarters in Louisville, Colo., delivers a broad range of storage solutions for digitized data. StorageTek solutions are easy to manage and allow universal access to data across servers, media types and storage networks. StorageTek is the innovator and global leader in virtual storage solutions for tape automation, disk storage systems and storage networking. Because of StorageTek, customers can manage and leverage their digital assets as their businesses grow, and can maximize IT productivity to ensure enterprise-class business continuity. For more information, see www.storagetek.com or call 1-800-786-7835.

Armed with a precise and detailed data collection, the Sysload solution is listening to the system activity and gives the user the ability to perform an end to end control of the availability and the performance of the information system:

• Real-time monitoring of operating systems, databases and applications, and response time measurements in IP environment
• Diagnosis and automatic incidents correction
• Trend analysis, performance management and system optimization
• Control and management of service levels
• Transparent integration within common administration frameworks
• Integration of data coming from third-party applications and sources

TeamQuest customers and prospects are invited to learn more about our latest release. Our engineers and technical staff will demo new features, like the new centralized administration and the web-based administration facility. Also see multi-system modeling demos, new horizontal scaling features, and the new EMC, Websphere, and DB2 data sources. Other features can be shown as requested.

This is a chance for you to give TeamQuest direct feedback and input so we can best meet your performance management and capacity planning needs. Ask questions and give opinions - we want to hear from you!

Learn more about capacity planning at: www.teamquest.com

OS/EM (AWESOME): OPERATING SYSTEM/ENVIRONMENT MANAGER for z/OS & OS/390. Capacity Planning, Operations & Technical Services are all exploiting OS/EM's numerous robust ISPF features. Dynamic Capabilities: Maximize CPU Resources & Batch Resource Routing, Reduce ISV costs, Eliminate Assembler Exits, Tape Share, and HSM Optimizer are just some of OS/EM's proactive features delivering 24/7 availability.

TUSC -- "The Oracle Experts" are specialists in helping companies optimize their investment in Oracle technology.

• Web Services/Custom Development
• Oracle's E-Business Suite
• Data Warehousing
• Managed Services
• Database Services
• Training & Mentoring

For more information, please visit www.tusc.com.

Velocity Software is "Unlocking the Mysteries of Linux". Corporations are continuing to integrate Linux on IBM’s z/VM into their business (IT) technologies. Management and monitoring of Linux related performance issues present unique challenges. Velocity Software’s solutions diagnose and enhance the performance of the following enterprise environments:

• Linux & Linux on VM
• z/VM & VM/ESA
• TCP/IP
• Sun, HP, Microsoft

Hosted on z/VM, Velocity Software’s Linux Power Suite (ESALPS) is a comprehensive suite encompassing the products required for deploying Linux under z/VM. Providing real-time and historical reporting, ESALPS is the complete solution to monitor and measure enterprise performance.

* VM/ESA, z/VM are registered trademarks of IBM Corp. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

VIDE provides software and services that give visibility and control over entire information infrastructures. Our solutions align your information infrastructure performance with the business processes they support to ensure that organizational needs and end-user experiences are met.

"You can’t improve what you can’t measure." Our solutions therefore allow customers to monitor, optimize and verify delivery of differentiated services across multi-vendor, multi-technology networks.

As a Lucent Technologies Solutions Provider, VIDE offers the acclaimed performance management software, ViatlSuite and VitalQIP, combined with our practical in-depth expertise focused on helping you manage the quality of service of your voice, data, and wireless environments.

Founded in 1991, WHAM's application tuning solutions reflect solid expertise in the Unix space. WHAM has mastered the art of simplifying complex analysis of performance measurements. WHAM's FocalPoint Performance Analysis Suite of products is affordable, quick and easy to install. Powered by a single agent with unmatched accuracy, all components provide precise views into ANY type of application running on AIX, Solaris and Linux, across all tiers, in real time! Take Nomad with you anywhere! Fully portable and flexible it will save your company money and time. We invite you to experience WHAM’s quality, integrity and guaranteed satisfaction.

Based in Brisbane, CA, Wily Technology, Inc. has become the leader in performance management software for Enterprise Java Applications by helping its customers keep their applications running at peak performance. Wily's comprehensive solution gives customers visibility into their new generation Java applications, integrates into existing IT systems management processes, and when combined with Wily professional services and best-practices, helps enterprise IT personnel become world-class managers of Java applications. Wily has established strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as BEA Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM Corporation and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Wily's patented Introscope® software monitors large-scale Java applications - isolating bottlenecks and minimizing downtime - in real-time production environments.

Xaffire provides the tools you need to monitor, measure, and improve the end-user experience your e-business delivers. In today’s environment, poor response time, lost transactions, excessive network latency, application failures and infrastructure problems are the leading cause of end-user complaints. In fact, even with network and application monitoring tools in place, a staggering 73% of enterprises first learn about website performance problems from end-user calls to the help desk. Xaffire offers a complete product line that addresses all of these issues, measuring and alerting performance issues from the end-user perspective, through the Internet cloud, across the firewall, and touching every piece of infrastructure and line of code.

z/Journal is the only independent mainframe-oriented magazine totally focused on presenting management and technical information for users of IBM zSeries and S/390 systems.