CMG1988 Papers


Advanced Tutorials

A Study of Disk Performance Options for UNISYS A Series Systems
Michael A. Salsburg

Analysis of an Intersystem Serialization Mechanism
Hossein H. Ghannad, William H. Tetzlaff

DASD and Cache Performance Analysis Using Modeling
Thomas Beretvas

Designing and Measuring High-Performance Processors
Bill McCormack

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

IMS Transaction Modelling and Response Time Validation Using Analytical Queueing Models
Raymond A. Clarke

Integrated Capacity Planning - A Case Study in Development and Implementation
Jack E. Brey

MVS/XA Performance and Resource Measurement Facility(RMF) Data Analysis
J. William Mullen

Network Management - Evaluation of Leading Products
Kornel Terplan

Performance Management of Parallel Computers
K. Mani Chandy

Processor Storage Estimation
Gary M. King

Processor Storage Overview
Gary M. King

Storage Benchmarking - Traps, Pitfalls, and Swindles
Stephen Goldstein

VM/XA-SP Monitor Data, An Architected Data Source
James Page

VSAM-Guidelines to Optimization and Design
Eugene S. Hudders

Introductory Tutorials

A Case Study Of Integrating A DASD Technology Change Into An Existing Plan
Alan M. Sherkow

A Workload Characterization Tutorial For On-Line Systems
Ellen M. Friedman

Back-of-the-Envelope Modeling Tutorial
Arnold O. Allen

CICS Shared Resources, Triumphs, and Tragedies Tutorial
Richard G. Nikula

CICS Tuning Experiences
Frank M. Bereznay

Network Tuning War Stories With a Happy Ending
R. L. Fischer

Office Automation Analysis And VAX/VMS(TM) Capacity Planning: Tools, Techniques And Experiences
Brian K. Sanders

Or How The System's Analyst Learned To Love Accounting
Nell Compo Davidson

Relational Technology: Is it for me
John E. Fair

SMF, RMF, and LOGREC: Primary Data Sources
William S. Cool, Joe Kersey

System Performance Management and Capacity Planning
Bernard Domanski

The Capacity Plan - Table of Contents
Patricia J. Hunter

Tutorial On Statistical Methods For Analysis And Reporting
Donald T. Gantz

Using Graph Theory For Network Analysis
Hugh Smith

Virtual Storage Tuning For MVS/XA
Carolyn Hanna

VM Capacity Planning For MVS Performance Analysts
Tim Grieser

Management Papers

A Credible Charter for Capacity Planning
Kiran Chakravarthy, Allen C. Moltz

A Production Control Model of On-Line Systems a Capacity Planning Overview
Carolyn Hanna

Business-Level Description of Transaction Processing Applications
William Z. Zahavi, James P. Bouhana

Capacity Planning - A Business
Patricia J. Hunter

Capacity Planning Personnel and Responsibilities
L. A. Phillips

Capacity Planning Reporting for Senior Management
Christopher W. Finney

Capacity Planning When You Are Out of Capacity
Mark B. Friedman

Chargeback Concepts
G. Gewurtz

CMF Analysis Management Concerns Addressed With the CICS Monitoring Facility
Dale Doolittle

Computer Performance Measurement and Capacity Planning for DEC VAXes (and other Minicomputers)
Ivan Loffler

DASD I/O Performance Tuning: A Case Study of Techniques and Results
Wayne S. Papy

Data Center Consolidation and Capacity Planning
Christopher W. Finney

Development of a Capacity Planning Infrastructure
Allen C. Moltz, Kiran Chakravarthy

Electronic Mail Analysis
Carole Pedriana, Pat Riker, Joan Roehrig, Tony Wang

Getting the Most Out of Your Vendor's Customer Support
Bill Rose

Great Myths of Capacity Planning
Jerry L. Rosenberg

How the 3990 changes your life: tips and traps
Gilbert E. Houtekamer

Managing Data Processing Personalities
Ted C. Keller

Managing for Growth in a VM Environment
Bucky Pope

Overview of Enterprise Systems Architecture/370 and the PR/SM Feature
James R. Bowerman

Putting it all Together ..
Jim Jens

Relationships Among Virtual Storage, Real Storage, and Paging
William S. Cool

Service Level Management at Lloyds Bank
William Barham, Murrey Faithfull

Starting from Scratch: The Evolution of a Capacity/Performance Function in a UNIX Environment
Anthony M. Krause, Sheri D. Silverstein

System Workload Management Using PC-Based Graphics
Ronald T. Welf

System-Managed Storage: The Impact on Planning
Ed Nieves

The Anatomy of Capacity Planning
David Edge

The Ascent of Mass Storage Systems
Ben Duhl

The Night the Lights Went Out in Texas
Bill Wagner

The Real World of DASD Management
Michael McElwee

Traffic Measurement in Nonhierarchical Data Networks
Erik-Jan Bos

U. S. Army Expands Concept of Charging for Information Services
Dean Halstead

Zero Swapping/Paging I/O - A Reality
J. C. Ryden

Management Tutorials

A Passion for Graphics Excellence
Calvin Powell

An Expert System's Tutorial for Computer Performance Evaluation
Bernard Domanski

An Introduction To Implementing A Capacity Planning Effort In An MVS Environment
Paul Waldowski

Building Network Management Databases
Bill Mickelson, Hugh Smith

Capacity Planning - What? Why? & How
Ann Petley-Jones

Capacity Planning for VM/VSE Systems
Duncan Cheung

Capacity Planning: A Management Primer
Jerry L. Rosenberg

Data Center Chargeback - A Resource Accounting Methodology
Peter J. Freimayer

How do I Get Started
Craig A. Cooley

Is SMS Really Less Labor Intensive
Arlene M. Morris

Macro Capacity Planning
H. Pat Artis, Bruce L. Gates

Macro-Level Capacity Planning
Leilani E. Allen

Processes In DASD Planning Management Tutorial Session
Catherine H. Liu

So, You Wanna Run A Benchmark
Ronald G. Nichols

System-Managed Storage: The Impact
Rob Wells

Where the Bucks Are (and How to Get Some)
Michael McElwee

New Books

MVS Concepts and Facilities MVS/370, MVS/XA and 370/ESA
Robert H. Johnson

The Computer Management and Evaluation Compendium Volume IX
Rich Olcott

Panel Discussions

System Performance Engineering: "Pay Me Now or Pay Me More Later"
Doug McBride

Technical Papers

3090/600E Partition vs Single Image Study
Darrel Cook, Joe E. Bell, Chuck Comstock, Glen Farmer

A Back of the Envelope Model of Realistic DASD Queues
Bruce McNutt

A Comparison of IEEE 802.3 Protocol Models
Donald F. Dubois

A Comparison of Paging Subsystems Composed of Expanded Storage and Semiconductor Disk
Stephen E. Cox

A Framework for Analyzing Parallel Discrete Event Simulation
Jack V. Briner Jr.

A Multi-Level Simulation Model of MVS/JES2 Batch Workloads
Charles E. Hackett

A Performance Analysis of Solid-State Disk
Jeffrey C. Hoffecker

A Performance Study on UNIX Disk I/O Reference Trace
T. Paul Lee, Rebecca Wang

A Technique for Evaluating Network Configuration Performance
Richard J. Stampf

A Unified Methodology for Data Center Planning
James H. Smith, Richard L. Gimarc

A VAX System Sizing Case Study
Mark Stokrp

Analyzing VM Performance: A Worksheet Based Approach
Robert F. Berry, Joseph L. Hellerstein

BOSUN - An In-House Developed Software Monitor for ACP/TPF Systems
Dave Clarke

Capacity Planning in a VAXcluster Environment: A Case Study
Prem Sinha, Jeannie Lieb, Paul Douglas, Jee Fung Pang, Melur K. Raghuraman

CICS LSR Buffer Simulator (CLBS)
G. Bozikian, J. William Atwood

Considerations for Modeling Shared DASD
Jeffrey P. Buzen, Annie W. Shum

Contention Among Paging I/O Processes
James S. DeArmon

DB2 - Performance and Catalog Locking Implications of Dynamic SQL
Joel Goldstein

DB2 Performance Engineering and Capacity Planning
Glynn B. Giacone

Designing an Expert System for Computer Performance Evaluation
Donald R. Deese

Determining the Relative Efficiencies Of Computation Systems: A Linear Programming Approach
Armin Roeseler

Emperical Determination of Cache Effectiveness at the Dataset Level
Eugene Quinn

Expanded Storage Measurement and Tuning
Michael R. Lee

Experience in Benchmarking CICS Systems
Deborah S. Pomerance, Harry L. Sanders

Experience with a Queueing Network Model of a Data General Minicomputer
Jeff T. Buckwalter, Arthur H. W. Lin

Expert Systems for Computer Performance Evaluation: On MetaRules and Knowledge Engineering
Bernard Domanski, Sidney W. Soberman

How to Obtain Data for Software Performance Engineering Studies
Connie U. Smith

I/O Subsystem Measurements in a System Environment
John G. Aschoff

Improving CADAM and CICS Response Time with a Solid-State Disk
Chris Kohlman, Clyde Webster

Interactive Expert Assistant for Computer Performance Evaluation
Jeffrey L. Dawson, Hal Shubin

Mainframe Capacity Modeling Methods For A Minicomputer Application
Larry K. Chu

Management and Response Time Capacity Planning
R. L. Fischer

Measurement and Analysis of Central Storage in an MVS/XA Expanded Storage Environment
Thomas W. McDonald

Measurement and Prediction of Computer Performance at the FAA's en Route Air Traffic Control Centers
Eric W. Brehm, Shin-Sun Chow, Robert T. Goettge

Modeling the Reliability of a Real-Time System
J. Dennis Lawrence

Modelling and Characterizing Workload Dynamics in TSO Systems
Lawrence Y. Ho

MVS Performance Management Legends
Stephen L. Samson

MVS/XA Installation Performance Specifications(IPS): Design Considerations
J. William Mullen

Network Response Time Monitoring Issues
Luis Motles, William Conner

Nonlinear Regression Models and CPE Applications
Mark B. Friedman

On Relative Speeds of VAX Processors
Subhash C. Agrawal

Partitioning Large Processors
David J. Young, Richard L. Poliak, Russell W. Martindale

Performance Analysis and Modeling of an Office Server in a Distributed PC Environment
Prabuddha Biswas, Christine Pietras

Performance Analysis of I/O Subsystem on Large Mainframe UNIX Systems
Nancy E. Covey, Anthony J. Gaseor, Hasan B. Mutlu

Performance Analysis of SNA Network Data Flow
Tachen Leo Lo, Jack Peng

Performance Engineering Techniques for Complex Dynamic Systems
Harry R. Erwin

Performance Evaluation of Realistic Image Synthesis Systems
Ricki Blau

Performance Monitoring & Resolution System (PMRS)
G. Bozikian, W. M. Jaworski

Planning for Capacity: DB2
David J. Young, George M. Coleman, Mark H. Schoenberg

Processor Performance Comparison Problems in VM/SP and VM/SP HPO
Robert K. Dunsire

Quantifying Central Storage Requirements
Michael R. Lee

Remote Workstation Emulation and Other Alternatives to RTE
James W. McGalliard, Ashok K. Thareja

Simulation is not a Four Letter Word
Michael A. Salsburg

Software Queuing Considerations Accessing DB2 from CICS
Steven R. Hackenberg

System Managed Storage Doing it Today Planning for the Future
Henry Steinhauer, Daniel Kaberon

The "Columbo" School of Expert Systems
Steven R. Hackenberg

The Effect of a Cached DASD Controller on CADAM Response Time
Chris Kohlman

The Law of Diminishing Returns: Special Cases of Mixed DASD Types
Joseph B. Major

The Logic Analyzer: A Tool for Understanding Computer Performance
Teri-Lynn Judge, Thomas E. Bell

The Next Step in the Evolution of DASD Cache Controllers: Performance Expectations
Roger P. Kovach

The Performance Evaluation of a Transaction Processing System
Michael A. Salsburg

The Performance Tracking Document: A Vehicle For Managing The Software Performance Engineering Process
Doug McBride

TSO Processor and Auxiliary Storage Options
Richard Poliak

Tuning Batch and IMS Systems: Two Parallel Studies in Workload Classification
William T. Gray

User Friendly Access to the Performance Data Base
Steve Isaacs

Using Netview to Report on Network Availability
Richard Hammond

Visual Characterization of Transaction Processing Workloads
James P. Bouhana

What's-Different Analysis and its Application to Performance Management in VM SP/HPO
Joseph L. Hellerstein

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MVS/ESA Capacity Planning: A First Look
J.P. Buzen, A.W. Shum