AGENDA

Jeff McNaughton Communications
Software Development

The trouble of getting information from CICS to the Internet is the lack of tools to marry the MVS environment to the Internet world and also the expense of developing applications. What can hinder you from getting rapid Internet access to your CICS data. Come and hear about some real live experiences I have had of reducing developing timeframes from years to months in SE Asia.

Stan Laugher
PSR Software

Today's Management Information, Executive Information, Data Warehousing applications thrive on large volumes of data. Typically, these systems have millions of observations (rows) to be processed and summarised. This paper will discuss tips and techniques that can be used by SAS practitioners to efficiently and effectively process large volumes of data. The author will draw on practical examples from MVS, NT and PC SAS environments.

Gavin Erickson
NAB

Capacity Planners and Performance Analysts in MVS shops are often are often asked to create CPU usage profile graphs for System X for yesterday's prime shift (08:00 through 16:00), another for System Y for the afternoon shift (16:00 through 24:00) and finally another for System Z for the whole day (00:00 through 24:00). It can be a real PITB to create three separate graphs for three separate systems for three different time intervals. Having first hand experience of this type of situation, I decided to do something about it, permanently, and in such a way that others could produce these graphs without my assistance. The end result was the creation of a SAS/AF application that utilised my existing SAS programs.

This presentation shows step by step how easy it is to build a simple SAS/AF application using an existing SAS macro program.

Tom Payne
EXECP

While creating business value from an enterprise printing management strategy today's users consider easy, quick, high-quality printing as a right rather than a privilege. They want to print whatever, wherever, and whenever they have a need. "Complexities be damned - just let me print!"

For those responsible for the day-to-day operations, distributed printing is rarely discussed in a strategic context. rather, printing issues are consigned to the dreaded helpdesk call - "Why can't I print?" The focus is tactical, and the demands ever-increasing. To avoid the pitfalls associated with printing in complex environments, strategic thinking is required.

Indeed, as corporate LANs continue to proliferate at a dizzying rate, it is imperative that Enterprise printing be elevated to a strategic context within IT. Just as the role of the host has changed, so has the nature of printing host-based output. The Enterprise now requires that disparate, far flung networks and printers are connected and transparently accessible to all users. Furthermore, important corporate printing resources are to be leveraged, extended and shared by the entire Enterprise. In today's competitive environment, the need to connect, standardize and optimize is urgent.

Dunn for Mark Friedman
Demand Technology

The best medicine for most sorts of performance problems is invariably preventative. Despite advance in software performance engineering [1,2], developing complex computer programs that are both functionally correct and efficient remains a difficult and time-consuming task. This paper specifically looks at tuning Windows NT applications running on Intel hardware from the perspective of optimizing processor cycles and resource usage. Fine-tuning the execution path of code remains one of the fundamental disciplines of performance engineering.

To bring this topic into focus, I will describe a case study where an application designed and developed specifically for the Microsoft Windows NT environment is subjected to a rigorous analysis of its performance using several commercially available CPU execution profiling tools. Since one of the development tools used to optimize the application program under consideration requires an understanding of the internal workings of Intel processors, this will justify an excursion into the area of Intel processor hardware performance.

Rick Sewell
Amdahl Pacific Services Pty Ltd

Over the last few years there has been a major improvement in the availability of tools that will allow increased data availability. All of these tools provide the ability to improve data availability through a number of different techniques. However, there are a number of issues such as hardware and software dependencies so trying to understand what approach will really solve individual problems is not all that easy. Choosing the appropriate tool also hasn't been made any easier by the use of a multitude of acronyms such as PPRC, XRC, SRDF, HODM, HRC and TDMF. This paper will describe all of the various tools available for increased data availability and examine both the positive and negative aspects of each. From attending this paper the audience will gain a better insight into what tools are available and which will be appropriate to their individual needs.

Geoff Hegarty
IBM Australia

In the year 2000, the world will focus on Sydney for the biggest event ever held in Australia, and the world's largest sporting event - the Olympic Games. A unique moment in history.... IBM is working with the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) and other Team Millennium Olympic Partners to build the Information Technology infrastructure for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Have you ever contemplated the vast magnitude of this IT undertaking? Our speaker will cover:

• the scope and challenges of the Olympic Movement, of the Games as an event, and hence of the Information Technology
• where IBM has been in "all this", over a (surprising?) period of time
• an overview of IBM's Olympic applications, and their relevance to the various end-users

With many personal experiences both from Atlanta and from Nagano, our speaker promises to stimulate both sport fanatics, and those not so "sport-mad", in this interactive, multimedia session!