Wedensday 6th September

9:00  - 12:30  Migration to Goal Mode: Why and How - Steve Samson, USA
9:00  - 12:30  Capacity Planning: I Never Knew it Could be this Big! - Neil McMenemy, UK
13:30 - 17:00 Virtual tape solution for your organisation - Raoul Blignaut, South Africa
13:30 - 17:00 UNIX Performance Tuning - Jacqui Lynch, USA

Now that an end to Compatibility Mode has been announced, just about everyone will be migrating to Workload Manager Goal Mode before 2002. This workshop shows how to do it with the least possible stress and disappointment.

We'll look at the special needs of several kinds of OS/390 workloads, and at the changes in WLM announced for delivery after the availability of Version 2 Release 10. If those attending wish to, we can also explore the mysteries of enclaves and scheduling environments. The handout will have all the material; we'll spend time on topics as the audience dictates.

Be prepared to discuss the special needs of your installation.

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This seminar gives an introduction to Capacity Planning by looking at is history and how it is relevant in today's IT world. The relationship between Capacity Planners and Application Programmers is examined while understanding how Capacity Planning fits into the Development Lifecycle, this is illustrated by a real user experience. The seminar goes on to give advice on how to go about collecting information to include in the Capacity Plan and then how to publish and present it with a detailed look at how graphs have a major influence on how the Plan is perceived.

Many Capacity Planners only go through the mundane day to day tasks of running SAS programs, producing the odd graph or report and never get involved in adding value to the organisation. This tutorial will open a few eyes to how Capacity Planning fits into the big I.T. picture and allows the attendees to go back to their own sites armed with a new understanding of their job.

In the seminar Neil will also discuss modelling and include a live demonstration of a neural network being trained.

Presenter BIO
Neil has been involved in the IT industry since 1988 and during this time has worked at many of the UK's leading financial insititutions as a Capacity Planning Consultant, Performance Analyst and Capacity Planning Manager. Most recently his role as Capacity Planning Manager has involved responsibility for OS390 mainframes, DEC Alphas/VAXES, UNIX servers and some NT servers at Citibank NA.

Neil has presented a number of papers, tutorials and seminars in the UK and US and was awarded best paper in stream at CMG's 25th Annual Conference in Reno, Nevada in 1999. Neil is currently the Vice-President of UKCMG.

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This workshop / seminar provides the delegate with the practical information needed to evaluate, select and implement a virtual tape solution, limiting risks (technology and cost) while delivering significant benefits. The session is based on the practical experiences obtained within a large South African financial organisation. It provides an in-depth discussion of the tools, methods and approaches on how to understand requirements, compile the appropriate RFI / tender, evaluate and compare options and finally implement the solution.

The session is split into a number of sections all with the actual (in soft-copy) case evaluation scoring lists (Excel), example project documentation (Word) and many other CMG references

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Raoul studied at the University of Port Elizabeth majoring in Commercial Computer Science. He started his career as a technical storage SE at IBM implementing SMS and HSM systems at a number of large South African corporations. He then moved into a technical consulting role and became national product manager at HDS for their storage products. He has been involved in disk and storage systems for his whole career, working on a number of projects implementing remote copy solutions at a number of sites. He is currently a senior manager at Nedcor Bank as a hardware and systems infrastructure architect and he is also studying for a Masters in Information Technology at WITS University.

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This seminar will introduce the performance analyst to some of the free tools available to monitor and manage performance on UNIX systems, and will provide a guideline for how to diagnose and fix performance problems in that environment. It will provide some Rules of Thumb for analyzing the performance of UNIX systems with examples based on BSD, Linux and AIX.

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Throughout over 23 years in the Information Systems Industry, Jaqui has been responsible for a wide variety of projects and operating systems across multiple vendor platforms, including mainframes, UNIX systems, midrange systems and personal workstations. From 1991 till May 1999, Jaqui worked at Boston College as the Manager of Systems Services, managing all of the Systems Programmers for the College (both academic and administrative). This job involved not only upgrades from MVS/XA to MVS/ESA, but has also included implementing distributed systems using UNIX, as well as both security and performance and tuning work for all of those systems. More recently Jaqui was involved in implementing the voice messaging system at the College using DirectTalk Mail and in designing and implementing UNIX based SP solutuiins. Jaqui is now freelance consulting on UNIX, SP, Voice Response and Messaging, and Performance and Capacity Planning.

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