Presentations from the OHVCMG Regional Meeting:

Dr. Boris Zibitsker - DB2 UDB ESE Performance Management Tradeoffs - OCMG.ppt Powerpoint
- Challenges of planning and managing DB2 UDB ESE applications during different phases of the application life cycle
- How to evaluate performance management tradeoffs
- Continuous process of setting and managing expectations

Gregory Hutchinson - IBM Eserver Zseries 890 Overview - z890-MASTER Powerpoint
- Introduction
- Book Structure
- Upgrades
- I/O
- Sysplex Considerations
- Statements of Direction
- Operating Systems
- Cryptography
- Hardware Management Console
- Physical Planning
- Reference Material

Rich Fronheiser - Too many servers, not enough eyes TooManyServers.ppt
Too ManyServers.doc

This paper is based on the Author’s experiences in formal Capacity Planning and Performance Management departments – starting with a large company that had few servers and many analysts and concluding with an even larger company that better reflected the title of this paper.  The paper outlines a methodology that allows analysts and planners to target their limited resources at systems (and more importantly, applications) that require the most attention as the number of servers grows and the number of analysts decrease.

Greg Caliri - Large Scale Processor Reference, and implications
Large Scale processor reference in Capacity Planning situations:
- A scalability refinement in system capacity in use through the years in OS/390, z/OS and predecessor operating systems
- It is still relevant today - past and current generations
- "LSPR benchmarks are laboratory controlled tests of representative workload environments, objectivley measured and analyzed. IBM views LSPR data as providing accuracy approaching that of a customized benchmark." (LSPR guide, IBM)  (Please note that file was removed at the request of BMC Corporation on 05/17/2007).

Joseph L Babcock - Care and feeding of SMF in the Large System Environment 2004.ppt
- Define the problem
- A model for SMF capture
- Processing the SMF data (Parsing)
- Summarization of SMF parsed data