TUNING
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GoalTender
Cheryl Watson
On Videotape
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& Capacity Planning Class
OS/390 (and MVS SP 5) introduced many new facilities that will need the attention of performance analysts, systems programmers and capacity planners. Facilities such as sysplex, parallel sysplex, OpenEdition/MVS (now UNIX System Services), APPC/MVS, TCP/IP, and the new MVS Workload Manager are changing the focus of traditional performance and capacity management. This class, designed and taught by Cheryl Watson, provides a step-by-step approach to tuning and measuring the new facilities. Both tuning and capacity issues are covered in one class because they're so interrelated.
This is an advanced class due to the pace and the pre-requisite familiarity with workload manager, sysplex, and parallel sysplex. It is the perfect follow-up to Cheryl's OS/390, Parallel Sysplex and Workload Manager class. It was created in response to students who wanted even greater detail. If you haven't taken our basic class or a similar one, you should read Cheryl's TUNING Letter on WLM Basics (March/April 1995), sysplex (Sep/Oct 1995), parallel sysplex (1996, No.3), and OpenEdition (1996, No. 2). You can also consider this class as a "Measurement and Tuning" update for OS/390, and it would help if you've taken a previous basic performance class. (Our last "MVS Performance" class, a full week of MVS performance based on SP 4.3, is still available on video ($1995 U.S.). IBM is also still offering their "MVS Measurement and Tuning" class for SP 5.)
Audience: MVS performance analysts, capacity planners, and system programmers.
Pre-requisites: Basic knowledge of sysplex, parallel sysplex, workload manager, OpenEdition, and APPC/MVS. This can be considered an OS/390 update of a typical MVS Measurement and Tuning course, but covers only new facilities in SP 5 and OS/390.
This is a video tape of an actual 4.5 day class held May 17-21, 1999 in Sarasota, FL. Take a look at the topics listed below and decide now to put Cheryl Watson on your team!
- Sysplex
- Review of terms
- How to tune it
- Capacity planning
- Parallel Sysplex
- Review of terms
- How to tune a coupling facility
- Data Sharing
- Capacity planning for both coupling facility and host
- Parallel Sysplex Exploiters
- System Logger
- JES2
- GRS
- RACF
- VTAM
- OS/390 Releases & Performance
- Workload Manager
- WLM in compatibility mode
- WLM in goal mode
- WLM What's New
- WLM logic
- WLM measurements and analysis
- WLM setting goals
- WLM Guidelines
- Discussion and Followup
- IMS V5 and V6 for MVSers
- Overview
- IMS/DB and data sharing
- IMS and goal mode
- Tuning and capacity issues (from an MVS point of view)
- DB2 V4 and V5 for MVSers
- Overview
- DB2 I/O priority
- DB2 and data sharing
- DDF, enclaves, and goal mode
- Tuning and capacity issues
- CICS V4 and TS for MVSers
- Overview
- CICS V4 and data sharing
- CICSPlex Session Manager (CP/SM)
- CICS V4 and goal mode
- CICS Transaction Server
- VSAM RLS
- Tuning and capacity issues
- Miscellanous Topics
- UCB VSCR
- CPU busy
- ISPF V4
- OpenEdition MVS
- Review of terms
- Tuning techniques for OpenEdition
- Setting up efficient parmlib parameters
- Capacity planning for OpenEdition
- JES2 and JES3 in OS/390
- New facilities
- Restrictions
- Tuning opportunities
- TCP/IP for MVSers
- Overview
- Tuning TCP/IP
- Capacity planning
- MQSeries
- Overview
- Tuning and capacity issues
- Language Environment (LE)
- Overview
- Tuning techniques
- COBOL for MVS
- APPC/MVS
- How to tune APPC/MVS
- Setting up efficient parmlib members
- Capacity planning for APPC/MVS
Application Environments
Enclaves
I/O priority management
OS/390 R3
Resource affinity scheduling
Batch initiator management
Contents: VHS video tapes and one notebook with all original class material.
Fee: $1500 USD
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