CMG1987 Papers


Advanced Tutorials

3090-Class Processor Architectures and Workload Performance Levels
Gary Keeney, Greg Simmons

A Capacity Planning Methodology for Data Networks
John Harmon

A Survey of Performance Applications of the Teleprocessing Network Simulator(TPNS)
Richard C. Burke

Accounting for Workload Variation in Interval Selection and Analysis
Brian Williams

CICS and DB2: A Marriage Made in Heaven
Jason G. Shane, James Cook

Coupled Systems for Performance
Edward I. Cohen

From Simple Regression to Analysis of Variance and Beyond - Painlessly
Ann C. Pool

High Performance I/O Subsystems
Anthony G. Mungal

I/O Tuning in the MVS/XA Environment
Rich Olcott

Modelling CICS Systems: The Performance Impact of MRO Implementations and Data Base Considerations
Ellen M. Friedman

Netview and Netview/PC Tutorial
Kornel Terplan

Paging, Swapping and Expanded Storage
Jeffrey P. Buzen, J. William Mullen, Annie W. Shum

Performance Evaluation of Future System Designs
J. M. Quernemoen, M. A. Fahland, B. G. LaPlante, T. L. Nelson

Processor Storage I LOVE YOU. SIGNED TSO
Bernard A. Lichtig, Russell W. Martindale, Terri L. Parmelee

Tools and Methods Available for In-Depth VM Performance Analysis
Deborah C. Christopher

What Models Do and What Models Don't
Allan I. Levy

Introductory Tutorials

A Capacity Planning/Queueing Theory Primer or How Far Can You Go on the Back/Of/An/Envelope
Ethan D. Bolker

A Real-Life "How-to-do-it" Guide to Modelling
Michael Taylor, Michael McElwee

An Introduction to Program-to-Program Communication and Peer-to-Peer Networking in an IBM SNA Environment
Thomas W. McDonald

Analytic Modeling for the Non-Analytic Modeler
Barbara Sannerud

Capacity Planning by the KISS Method
Larry Kayser

CICS Performance and Workload Reports
Chuck Comstock

Fundamentals of Statistical Workload Forecasting
H. Pat Artis

High-Performance Processor Design
Bill McCormack, Jay Michlin, Larry Brisson, Andy Martin

Implementing Network Capacity Planning
Toby Olberding

Methodology to Develop a Tool for Monitoring CPU Usage by Applications Running under VM
Robert D. Deese, Hossein H. Ghannad

Online Data Base vs. Raw System Data
Robert H. Denis

Reporting Availability at the Job Step Level
Jim Scott

System Performance Management and Capacity Planning
Bernard Domanski, John P. Pilch

The Theory and Practice of I/O Tuning
Rich Olcott

VM/HPO Performance Measurements
Mark S. Streger

Management Papers

A Capacity Planning Methodology That is Destined to Succeed
Ruu-Tian Lawrence

A Fully Automatic Analytic Approach to Budget-Constrained System Upgrade
Samuel T. Chanson, Angela S. O. Wong

Cache Management in a Hostile Environment
Rob Wells

Can Service Units be Used for Uniform Chargebacks
Carl Claunch

Capacity Budgets and Financial Budgets: Relating Them to Each Other Through Resource Accounting
Joseph W. Richardson

Capacity Planning as a Business Process
Jerry L. Rosenberg

Chargeback vs. Cost Accounting the Appropriate Emphasis
George J. Gillen Jr., Billy F. Henry

Comprehensive Process for Projecting Computer Resources
John Wandzilak, Raymond Murphy

End-User Performance Measurement: An Automated PC Approach
Gerri K. Martin Flickinger

Experience in Cost Allocation
Joseph Stancavish

Financial Considerations in Capacity Planning
Jerry L. Rosenberg

Incorporating Data Networks into a Performance and Capacity Planning Structure - A Case Study
Hugh Smith, Dyna Wilson

Laser Optical Document Management Systems and Their Capacity Planning Implications
David E. Y. Sarna

Magnetic Cartridge Tape Configuration Management
Anthony R. Guerrero

Management Reporting: An Approach To Availability and Service Reporting
Michael Marcus

Managing Departmental Mainframe Demand Through Shared Accountability
Kenneth C. Jones

Performance Engineering: Some Lessons from the Trenches
Thomas E. Bell, Anne M. Falk

Performance/Capacity Data Base For Studies of Long-Term Trends
Hulan E. Jack Jr., Kim Goldenberg, Roger Williams

Quality Improvement in Capacity Management
Brian P. Wessner

Real World Performance Measurements for Unix-Based Systems
Neal Nelson

Service Level Agreement Checklist
Robert P. Goldberg, Leonard D. Lipner

Service Level Agreements: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
George W. (Bill) Miller

Some Experiences of Data Centre Relocation
Brian Day

Storage Performance - An Eight Year Outlook
Stephen Goldstein

Structured MIS Planning
Veli-Matti J. Salminen

The Role of Capacity Planning in Consolidations, Acquisitions and Mergers
Holly E. K. Verbil

What We Can Learn From Other Capacity Planners: A Survey of Quantitative Methods
Bruce A. Ingraham

Who Goes There? A Dialogue of Questions and Answers About Benign Hacking
David F. Stevens

Management Tutorials

A Strategy for Improving IO Subsystem Design Using Cost Per IO Analysis
A. L. (Roy) Jones

A Systems Engineering Look at SAA
James R. Cook

After The Study Is Over
Craig A. Cooley

An Introduction to Business Element Forecasting
James R. Bowerman

Bull Moose Does TA: A Manager's Guide to Transactional Analysis
James A. Stanton

Computer Acouisition after the Tax Reform Act of 1986: Exploring the Possibilities
Sudhir P. Amembal, Shawn D. Halladay

DASD Management: Let's Talk Money
Greg H. Parker

Establishing Useful Business Relationships
Leilani E. Allen

Incorporating Expert Systems Technology into Software Performance Engineering
Doyle Weishar

Report on the Large Systems Storage Heirarchy
Fred Moore, Jerry Percell

The Goldilocks Syndrome
Mike Berry

The Use of Natural Forecasting Units
John M. Reyland

Workload Characterization and Forecasting for a Large Commercial Environment
George W. (Bill) Miller

New Books

A Close Look at MVS Systems: Mechanisms, Performance and Security
Ronald Paans

A Computer and Communication Network Performance Analysis Primer (Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1985; revised, 1987)
Bart W. Stuck, Ed Arthurs

CICS - Designing for Performance
Eric Emanuel

Panel Discussions

Executive Views and Expectations of Capacity Planning
James A. Stanton

Good Tools and Models are not Enough: On the Necessity for Bi-Directional Communication
Ellen E. Robertson, Dottie Cunningham

Rules of Thumb
Harry Zimmer

Successful Software Performance Engineering (Panel)
Connie U. Smith

Technical Papers

3480 Performance and Capacity Planning
Ted C. Keller

A Benchmark Comparison of DB2 and the DBC/1012
G. C. Steindel, H. G. Madison

A comparative study of System/370 CPU's
Gilbert E. Houtekamer, Rob van Hoboken, Guus Bonnes

A Flexible Approach to Performance Prediction For Large System Software Development
A. Long, W. Suhler

A Heuristic Modeling Approach to CICS Capacity Planning
Steven R. Hackenberg

A Method For Reporting Cashed I/O Subsystem Performance
Nancy Nearing

A Multiple Workload Approach to Cache Planning
Bruce McNutt, James W. Murray

A PROLOG-based Expert System for Tuning MVS/XA
Bernard Domanski

A Simple Linear Programming Model For Computation Center Investment Decisions
Matt J. Merges

A Simulation Model for Determining Optimal Freespace Levels on MVS Disk Storage Volumes
Kenneth E. Levy

A Systematic Approach for Identifying Peak Periods
H. Pat Artis

A Technique for Evaluating the Performance of Vector Processors
David S. Lindsay

An Experiment in the Calculation of Capture Ratios
John F. Temperly, Robert J. Hardman

An Implementation of a Graphical Management Information System Using Symphony
Dyna Wilson

An Intuitive Approach to Performance Prediction with Application to Workload Management in VM SP/HPO
Joseph L. Hellerstein

Analyzing File System Fragmentation on Unix Systems
Behrokh Samadi

Analyzing the Performance Characteristics of 18-Track Tape Technology
William F. Dines Jr., Bradley A. Cahill

Balanced Exponential Approximation Algorithm
Arun Kumar, Melur K. Raghuraman

Caching the Tape Library - Tape Reference Patterns and Automated Tape Systems
Daniel Kaberon

Capacity Analysis of PBX Systems
Tachen Leo Lo, Jack Peng

Capacity Planning for a Multi-Processor Environment Supporting CICS Transactions
Donald T. Gantz, Carlos M. Gonzalez, Melvin L. Moore

Characterizing UNIX Stream Mechanism Via Pipe Experiments
T. Paul Lee

Conceptual Issues in Measuring the Behavior of a Distributed Real-Time Process-Control Computer System
J. Dennis Lawrence

Determining End User Response Time Using NLDM
Michael W. Yount

Disk Cache Performance Modeling
Michael A. Salsburg

Empirical Models of DASD Response Time
Joseph B. Major

End-User Response Time Measurement - Not The Final Solution
Per Futtrup, Morten Panduro, Bent Vestermark

Estimating the Maximum Throughput of a CYBER 930 Disk Subsystem
Andrew Tron, John Sutherland

Expanded Storage Usage and Tuning
Carolyn Hanna

Expert Systems and MVS Performance Management
Jack van Kinsbergen

Expert Systems: Let's Build one Together
Frank J. Ingrassia

Forecasting CPU Utilization in an IMS Environment: A Case Study Using Monte Carlo Techniques
William T. Gray, M. Cheng

General Principles for Performance Oriented Design
Connie U. Smith

IBM 3090 Processor Expanded Storage Experiments
John P. Pilch, Bernard Domanski

Identification of Tuning Opportunities Through the Use of User Behavior Graphs
Charles E. Hackett

In Pursuit of DASD Data Path Alternatives
Ben Duhl

Is a Picture Always Worth a Thousand Words
Douglas R. MacKinnon

Large Capacity DASD: Is Performance Something to be Afraid of
Bruce McNutt

Measurement and Analysis of Expanded Storage in IBM 3090-400 Systems
Jeffrey P. Buzen, J. William Mullen, Annie W. Shum

Memory Management for Large IBM Systems
Michael R. Lee

Model Timeframe Selection and Analysis of Variance of an Online Transaction Processing Workload
Theresa A. Hellner, Dennis J. Henry

Modelling Memory constrained systems
Gilbert E. Houtekamer, Rob van Hoboken, Guus Bonnes

Modelling of a Production IMS System under a Multi-Function Processing Architecture
Dale Gilbert

New Measurement Data Sources for MVS X/A and its Subsystems
H. W. Barry Merrill

On the Optimization of Memory in Large Interactive Environments
Anthony G. Mungal

Paging Analysis in an Expanded Storage Environment
Thomas Beretvas

Performance Architecture Comparison of Vector Processors on Large Scientific and Commercial Machines
David S. Lindsay

Performance Tuning for a VAX-Based Relational Database Application: A Case Study and Lessons Learned
G. Burgess Allison

PROFS Capacity Planning Issues
Allan H. Shub

Sensitivity Analysis of System Changes Under a Production Environment
Tachen Leo Lo

Sizing New Automated Systems Having Unknown Workloads: A Structured Approach
John L. Gibson

Static vs Dynamic Management of Consistently Very Active Data Sets
Martha R. Henley, Ingrid Liu

The Need for a Network Monitor
Phil Bodley

The System Performance Cycle: A Methodology For Architecting Product Performance
Doug McBride

The Use of Regression Analysis in the Calculation of Capture Ratios
Mel F. Kirshin

Tightly-Coupled Effect Processor Contention Overhead
Jerry P. Place

Transaction Resource Demand
James T. Cheeseman

VM Performance - Top Down That Went Bottom Up
Mary Sue Dickerson

VSAM Specification and Tuning: Optimization of VSAM Performance in Batch and CICS Environments
Frank M. Bereznay

Workload Characterization for Subsystems: A Case Study for IDMS
Ellen M. Friedman

Workload Characterization Using UNIX System Accounting
J. Jerik Tornheim, Richard T. Williams

Workload-Oriented Performance Analysis in MVS
Stephen L. Samson

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Projection Algorithms for IBM DASD Cache Analysis Tool
Jean Ju, Stan Caldwell