There is a slow but steady growth in the adoption of Workload Manager goal mode. As of October 1998 the response to a survey question was about 25 percent, but that may be a skewed audience. Lately, however, the momentum seems to be increasing.
There are many reasons cited for not going to goal mode; many of them are based on ignorance of the modest magnitude of the task. Those who have gone to goal mode are almost embarrassed to talk about it because it goes so smoothly with few problems being encountered.
This seminar reviews and debunks the objections to goal mode, gives the author's perception of IBM's reasons for announcing and shipping goal mode when it did, continues with a tutorial review of goal mode and its interaction with workloads, notably CICS. The last part of the seminar is a step-by-step procedure for getting there.

Systems Programmers and Performance Analysts who are considering moving to Goal Mode or may already be in Goal Mode but want the latest WLM features explained and where WLM will be going in the future will not want to miss this seminar..

Another International CMG regular and CMG98 (USA) Best Paper award winner. Adrian presented this seminar at CMG’98.

Abstract: The seminar provides a tutorial to explain how TCP/IP works, how it behaves in practice, practical capacity planning techniques and alarm rules. Examples are provided that use standard SNMP information sources to span NT and Unix based distributed systems and mainframes, and their interactions. TCP/IP performance tuning for web servers on NT, Unix and Mainframe platforms will be presented.

Rich and Minda are both active board members of CMG in the US and together have over 40 years experience in the IT industry. Storage Management gurus with recent offerings from IBM and StorageTek DASD technology they will present their seminar titled -
"The Reality of Virtual" - A half day seminar on the implementation, usage and performance of a virtual disk subsystem and related software.

Over 25 years ago the concept of virtual storage was made a reality for mainframe CPU's. With the advent of the Shared Virtual Array (Iceberg) from StorageTek and the RAMAC Virtual Array from IBM, virtual storage is now a reality for disk subsystems. This seminar will cover the functionality of virtual disk subsystems and look at how this unique implementation can be exploited in today's environments. We will also review performance characteristics associated with this log structured file architecture. In tandem with the hardware subsystem, there is software available to utilize the virtual disk structure and exploit it. The implementation, usage and performance of the software will also be covered. This is not intended to be a highly technical discussion of disk subsystem internals but rather a tutorial for the systems programmer/storage manager/capacity planner who would like to more fully understand the capabilities of a virtual disk subsystem.

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Raoul was CMG South Africa President for several years and has over 15 years experience in the IT industry predominantly in the Storage Management field. He comes to Australia to present his seminar which he has presented at the CMG US and UK conferences very successfully.

Abstract: This workshop critically examines the current practices and procedures for both synchronous and asynchronous remote copy. Various vendors (EMC, IBM and HDS) implementations will be highlighted and classified. Practical South African experience will be covered (in the presentation) in the areas of data integrity, distance / right-of-way, data currency, performance / throughput and system availability issues. Solutions to these issues will be explored and various trade-offs / criteria examined based on the current solutions and communication technology available. This workshop will be broken into two sections:

This workshop has a full 16 page paper (see attached) and consists of approximately 50 slides.

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.

A one day workshop, by an internationally recognised expert, on how to improve the efficiency of your SAS^® System programs and applications! Appropriate for all operating systems and platforms!

Delegates receive over 250 pages of course notes, detailed explanations and benchmarking results, making this workshop an appropriate investment for any user of the SAS System in a mainframe environment.

• Learn how to reduce:
• CPU utilisation
• Input/Output operations
• Resource requirements for:
• DATA STEP completion
• PROCEDURE execution
• Size of SAS^® data sets
• Discover the SAS^® Procedures which can:
• Avoid long and tedious data step coding
• Manage your SAS Data Sets and Data Libraries
• Implement SAS^® System and Data Set Options to:
• Select only the observations and variables you need to complete task requirements
• Reduce system resources required for merging and appending data sets
• Obtain SAS^® System utilisation and performance statistics
• This workshop is suitable for:
• Computer measurement professionals who want to learn how the SAS System works, and ways to reduce system resource requirements to complete SAS jobs.
• Beginning to Intermediate users of SAS^® System software
• Researchers, Business Analysts and other "end users" who want to create more efficient SAS^® System programs and applications
• Systems Programmers who want to learn more about how the SAS^® System creates and uses data sets.

Presenter Bio:
Andrew H. Karp, President of Sierra Information Services, Inc., a SAS Institute, Inc. Quality Partner in the United States. Andrew has given this seminar throughout the United States, as well as on behalf of SAS Institute New Zealand. He has also presented it in the Australia, the United Kingdom and Belgium under the auspices of Software Product Services, Ltd. He is a 16 year SAS user who has presented over 40 papers at SAS users group meetings in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. To date over 1,000 software professionals have received SAS Software training from his firm. He is a graduate of The George Washington University in Washington, DC and from 1989 to 1994 was an instructor in computers and information systems at the University of California, Berkeley.

One ½ day seminar - $245 (Morning or afternoon tea included)

Two ½ day seminars - $445 (Morning and afternoon tea included)

Full day seminar - $490 (Lunch, morning and afternoon tea included)

The cost of the ½ day seminars don’t include CMGA membership. If seminar attendees don’t attend the conference a $135 dollar membership fee will also be charged. Normal membership benefits will be included.

Lunch is not included with the ½ day seminars but is available at the hotel.

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