28-30th July
Brisbane Convention Centre

Pre-conference Workshops

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Once again CMGA has organised 2 half day workshops scheduled for Monday 27th July at the Brisbane Convention Centre. Two international guests from the USA, Steve Samson and Tom Beretvas will present these workshops. The workshops will cost $245 each or $440 for both. Light morning and afternoon tea is included.

Workshop Registration.

The Steve Samson Workshop - Mon 27/7/98
09:00-12:30

Implementing Workload Manager Goal Mode - Hands on experiences.

Steve Samson, is a Senior Technical Staff Member at Candle Corporation who has coordinating responsibility for product quality and customer satisfaction across the corporation's product lines and participates in the Corporate Design Control Group. As Candle's senior technical consultant for MVS performance management, he provides assistance to Candle's customers, employees, and prospects on topics related to MVS and performance management, as well as on IBM's enterprise systems products and announcements.

This seminar covers the considerations tips and traps of implementing Workload Manager Goal Mode on a real system. Some of the topics that will be presented in this seminar are: -

CICS,
MQ,
MQ/CICS,
DB2,
DDF, and
batch

The basis of this seminar is the successful completion of a project at a real site, so actual examples are used to illustrate the effect or impact of the various options. The attendee will see the approach taken and which options provided the desired management and resulting performance / throughput balances required by the target site.

This is an opportunity to see the results of this technique actually used in anger on an existing system in the real world.

The Tom Beretvas Workshop - Mon 27/7/98
13:30-16:30

Tom Beretvas has 33 years of experience in data processing. He joined IBM in 1964, and has focused on MVS performance since 1971, when he became the first MVS performance manager. He retired from IBM in 1992 after a distinguished career, in which he specialised in MVS performance, DASD and paging performance. Tom spent several years in tuning MVS installations, often visiting customers as a consultant. He is a regular speaker at SHARE, IBM Storage and Large Systems Performance Conference, and Computer Measurement Group. He has published more than 40 papers and monographs. Since 1992 several hundred students have participated in his week-long class: DASD Performance and capacity planning.

Tom will be covering two topics in his workshop. They are :-

New DASD technology

DASD technology is evolving rapidly. Vendor after vendor is introducing new technologies. These technologies are incorporated into proprietary control units, so called "storage processors", that have large nonvolatile storage, SCSI disks, new concepts such as "logical volumes" and RAID and remote copy. The workshop examines these technologies. It reviews, and explains such new offerings as EMC Symmetrix, and IBM RAMAC, RVA and RSA HDS 7700 and Amdahl Spectris storage processors. It identifies the commonality of approaches and highlights the differences. It examines the features and advantages of these products thereby providing some guidance in making selection among these DASD subsystems. Thus, questions of performance potential, availability are discussed and addressed.

DASD capacity planning

DASD capacity planning occurred in the past by installations estimating data space requirements for the future, then proceeding to order DASD volumes to meet their needs. This approach is one solution, which may be inadequate with the advent of storage processors. A variety of considerations have to be made, e.g. required cache size, conflicts on the lower interface, etc.
The presentation attempts to give an encyclopedic review of the considerations to be made, and addresses the various metrics associated with capacity planning and performance evaluation of the new DASD storage processors.