Ohio Valley Computer Measurement Group

Ohio Valley CMG and Central Ohio Mainframe Users Group are teaming up to deliver you a full day of great mainframe performance content on April 23rd, 2013.  If you’re a CMG member who is not a mainframe professional, stay tuned: we’re planning a fall conference of non-mainframe content.

As part of this joint venture with COMUG, we’re trying several different thing with this meeting that will make it a bit different from previous meetings.  In an effort to increase the value to you, our members, we’re reducing our costs by moving out of Dave and Busters.  The primary meeting location will be the IBM campus in Dublin Ohio, with the satellite location being Progressive Insurance in Mayfield Village Ohio.  This, combined with IBM and Enterprise Performance Strategies sponsoring breakfast and lunch, have allowed us to reduce our registration cost to $0.  Yes, that is a zero.  The hassle of filling out an expense report is no longer a valid excuse for not attending!  Moreover, we’re also making the live webcast of the event freely available as well.  We hope you’ll join us in one of our two locations in order to get the benefit of networking with your peers, but we understand if you just can’t make it out of the office.

No matter how you attend, you will get to hear some great presentations by some great speakers.  Steve Guendert is going to start out the day educating us on the performance improvements possible with zHPF.  Steve Womer is going to follow that with a discussion on the value of good response time and why a well-thought out architecture is key to the achieving that.  Peter Enrico is going to then discuss how WLM management of CICS can help you achieve those good response times.  During lunch he will give us a look at his product Pivotor which can be used to analyze performance data.  Monte Bauman will follow that up with an update on the IBM zEC12 mainframes.  Scott Chapman will discuss the CPU Measurement Facility (SMF 113) data and present an SMF 113 analysis of one shop’s migration from a z10 to a zEC12.  Finally, the day will end with Allan Balian leading a round-table COMUG-style discussion about customers’ zEC12 experiences.

0800 - Arrival and continential breakfast (provided by IBM)
0830 - Opening remarks
0845 - Exploring zHPF Performance (Steve Guendert)
1000 - The Value of Good Response Time (Steve Womer) 
1100 - Managing CICS with WLM (Peter Enrico)
1200 - Lunch (Sponsored by Enterprise Performance Strategies)
1230 - Introducing Pivotor (Peter Enrico)
1330 - zEC12 Architecture and Performance Update (Monte Bauman)
1445 - Analyzing a z10-zEC12 Migration with SMF113 Data (Scott Chapman)
1545 - zEC12 Customer Experiences Roundtable (led by Allan Balian)

(Note: exact presentation names and times may change)

Advanced registration is requested and can be done quickly and easily here:

http://www.ohvcmg.org/register/

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We have a real exciting conference coming up Thursday October 11, 2012 at Dave and Busters in Columbus.

We are also orchestrating a live WebEx of the conference at a satellite location in the Cleveland area, graciously hosted by Progressive Insurance. Therefore Cleveland area folks won’t have the burden of travel.

So we have Northern Ohio and Mid-Ohio covered.  If you are somewhere in-between and cannot travel please e-mail Tim and there may be some virtual options available to participate in the conference.

 Our program consists of:

• Our favorite IBMer Monte Bauman will be giving a much anticipated update on the new IBM processors that were just announced.
•  Mullen award winner Mike Giglio will be presenting “The Penguins Have Landed – Getting Started With Linux On System z”.
•  Our own Board Member Scott Chapman (who writes “What I learned this month” for CMG’s MeasureIT) will be presenting his newest paper  “Better Information from Better Data Visualization”.  Scott will be co-presenting with Nicole Arksey.  Scott will be presenting from Columbus Oh,  Nicole will be presenting from British Columbia, Canada!  How cool is that?
•  Our conference is being sponsored by SoftwareonZ and they will also be presenting some great information.

With the economy as it is, this is a very efficient way to gain valuable information to help you in your career as a Computer Performance professional. And now you don’t even need to travel to Columbus!

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Our next meeting will be May 24th, 2012 at the Dave and Busters on Polaris Parkway in Columbus Ohio.  Cleveland area folks who don’t want to drive to Columbus may attend via a live WebEx at our sarellite location, graciously hosted by Progressive Insurance.

The program is still being finalized, but will include:

• David Follis from IBM will present “Weird Tales of Websphere: Secrets of the Lost (SMF) Records”.
• Our own Board Member Dr. Steve Guendert will be presenting an entertaining talk on management.
• Metron-Athene is sponsoring the conference and will be presenting some excellent information in two sessions.

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Our conference was  held at Dave and Busters in Columbus, OH  (Polaris Parkway) on September 15.   Stay tuned for the 2012 conference schedule!

Our spectacular speaker list was:

• Frank Bereznay (National CMG Vice President) – How to Build Tabular Dashboards Using Proc Report (CMG’10 Best Paper Award)
• Keith Tidballl and Lori Zaremba (Progressive Insurance) – Application Development Success Stores for DB2 Performance Issues
• Eva Tuczai (Optier) – Optier Vendor Presentation
• Ann Knapik (Progressive Insurance and OHVCMG Director) – SYSPLEX Aggregation with help from ASC Software from SoftwareonZ – A user’s experience
•  Frank Bereznay (National CMG Vice President) – Automatic Monitoring of Continuous Processes

We will put any softcopies of presentations in our download section  in category ’20110915′ (located at bottom of download page).

With the economy as it is, this is a very efficient way to gain valuable information to help you in your career as a Computer Performance professional.

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Ohio Valley Computer Measurement Group OHVCMG is a not-for-profit organization focused on providing members interested in enterprise computing systems, capacity planning, and performance evaluation with a means to share, learn, and exchange knowledge on modeling and measurement techniques and other areas of interest.

Present your paper or topic at our Regional Meeting and the national conference: If you have a topic that you believe members of OHVCMG would benefit by hearing, please contact us to submit your abstract and presentation for consideration. Our group generally meets twice a year and we generally have four or five presentation sessions and a vendor sponsored lunch presentation.  The 2011 annual Computer Measurement Conference is being held December 5-9 in Washington DC area.

Sponsorship opportunities: The OHVCMG Region is proud to continue its tradition and commitment of providing the best of CMG to Ohio and the surrounding states. Opportunities exist for companies, organizations and individuals who wish to show their support of our group throughout the year that will continue to help us provide the high quality sessions our membership deserves.

If you are looking for a targeted demographic to share your product and services message with, we invite you to contact us to learn about sponsorship options. Many members of OHVCMG are working professionals spanning multiple disciplines of Information Technology and are employed at some of the largest companies and organizations throughout Ohio and surrounding states.

Become a Board Member: Those interested in joining the OHVCMG Board, sponsoring a conference, or becoming a OHVCMG member please contact Tim Follen. Ohio Valley Computer Measurement Group is affiliated with the Computer Measurement Group, Inc..

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