September, 2007
by Margaret Greenberg
Our October 17 meeting will be MCMG's usual end-of-year "Taste of CMG" for those of us who will be attending CMG and a chance for our members with accepted papers to have a focus group. It will be an excellent chance to get the CMG experience without travel. Unfortunately, some of us cannot attend the Conference in San Diego, but this day is still AFFORDABLE AND INFORMATION PACKED.
So come and learn with us at Holiday Inn Mart Plaza, our old reliable venue, for only $85 early registration and $100 at the door. You may log on to MCMG's website and use PayPal AFTER September 13. We're switching webmasters and need just a little extra time to set things up properly.
Who's going to be there!
Peter Enrico will present his excellent paper, zIIPS and zAAPs - Understanding Transaction Flows and CPU Measurements. This will be helpful to further get a grip on details of the two engines and their strengths. Additionally, he will provide a second topic on zOS 1.8 or kindred topic TBD. For those who need further definition of the z9 world, these are a must see.
John Von Wagenen, a first time MCMG author, will present Performance Monitoring Process for Out of Standard Applications. He [and his co-workers] knows their applications and tracks monthly cpu utilization, then calculates the expected performance baseline. Each month all applications are measured for current activity and compared to the baseline; those which exceed a specified variance are designated as "out of standard" or OOS for short. The OOS bad boys are scrutinized to determine the cause of variance and are assigned one of three dispositions to the OOS application: anomaly, growth or tuning. For those wishing a user experience presentation, this will be very interesting.
Boris Zibitsker will provide a condensed version of his Sunday workshop, Performance Prediction for Multi-tier Distributed Environment. This is designed for professionals who would like to learn the fundamentals of building and applying analytical models to proactively manage the performance of applications in multi-tier distributed environments including Web Servers, Application Servers based on Web Logic and Web Sphere as well as Oracle 10g, 10g RAC and DB2 UDB ESE DBMS supporting parallel processing. As usual, Boris will provide volumes of useful information to enable us to be up to date in current methodology.