CMG1993 Papers


Application Analysis

Adding Performance Considerations to Your Application Development Methodology
Linda N. Haitani

Application Cost/Performance Improvement Methodology
Matt Haley

Application Performance - Problems, Pitfalls and Strategies
Douglas H. Marden

Function Point Delivery Rates under Various Environments: Some Actual Results
M. Waheed Siddiqee

Proactive Performance Engineering: I Don't Have to Be Kicked in the Head Twice!
Richard J. Bolesta

Capacity & Performance Management

Adapting Statistical Quality Control to the Management of Computer Performance
Richard J. Schwartz

AS/400 Performance Management Technology
Walter H. Schwane

Baseline Interval Selection
William John Chisholm Jr.

Basic Capacity Planning During a CPU Upgrade
Harold J. Heinz

Capacity Planning of AS/400 Systems
Eric D. Ho & Lynor Lisi

Capacity Planning: Tips and Techniques
Tim Follen

Comparing Processor Performance: How to Specify What You Want and Determine if You Got It
Dr. H. Pat Artis & Jim Walters

CPU QRatio
Bob Chaney Jr.

Enterprise Wide Alert System: A Pro-Active Approach
Jerry W. Steinhardt

Hardware Projections Using Natural Forecasting Units
Teymoor Rashid

High Utilization Effect: How Global Processor Cache Improves System Throughput
Catherine S. Nolan & Jack N. Morrison

Implementing an Enhanced Capacity Planning Methodology
Linwood Merritt

Introduction to Numerically Intensive Computing for Capacity Planners and Performance Specialists
Clifford J. Goosmann

Rating Processors Without Benchmarks: An Introductory Tutorial
Gene Leganza

Some Tough Puzzles: A Possible Role for AI in CPE
Ray Dickensheets

System Performance Benchmarks : Proprietary and Public
KR Huppler & IS Kiss

The Role of the CPE Professional in an Outsourced Environment ...(or, There's Life After Outsourcing)
Gregory Caliri

Total Quality Management and Computer Performance Evaluation: Identifying the Overlaps and Maximizing Your Quality Capacity
Ronald D. Lear

Tracking Data in Capacity Planning
Ray Wicks

Using Stress Testing to Uncover Performance Bottlenecks in a Telephone Network Engineering Software System
T. Steven Yuen

Capacity Planning

8 1/2
James McGalliard

Mainframe Evaluations - a Strategy for the 90s
James E. Wild

Parallel Processing In The Glass House: Evaluating Alternatives For Commercial Applications
Ron Waid & Thomas G. Confrey

Performance Assurance: A New Paradigm for Performance and Capacity Planning
G. Jay Lipovich

Requesting Proposals: Getting Better Solutions by Asking Better Questions
Randolph L. Smith

Service Level Based Capacity Planning
Dan Day

Database & Transaction Systems

A Simple Capacity Model of Massively Parallel Transaction Systems
Neil J. Gunther

Automated CICS Performance Management
John L. Connor

CICS Transaction Routing: Costs and Comparisons
David J. Young

DB2 Performance Cookbook - How and When DB2 Design Ingredients Make Sweet and Sour Performance
Glynn B. Giacone

DB2 Processing Performance: A Case Study
Sue L. Rosansky

Distributed Data Base Systems
Annette Hagood

IMS DC Monitor Review Made Easy
Roger Aukerman

More Engines, Faster Engines, and Partial Engines
Steven R. Hackenberg

Online System VSAM LSR Buffer Tuning Technique
Kaison Yen & J. Alan Gray

Performance and Capacity Planning for the Teradata DBC/1012
Kenneth C. Jones

Performance Evaluation of Database Computers with High Level of Parallel Processing
Gdaliy G. Sigalov & Boris E. Zibitsker

Software Performance Engineering (SPE) in the Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) Environment
Pat Furrow & Doug Hanson

To Normalize or Denormalize, That is the Question
Marsha Hanus

Financial Analysis

Getting Ready for Chargeback - Preparations, Politics, Technical Hurdles, and Great Expectations
Gregory Caliri

Measuring and Monitoring the Cost Efficiency of Data Centers
John F. Thomas

Outsourcing: Risk or Advantage
Linda J. Carroll

The True Cost of DASD
Richard I. Mizrahi

Network & Interoperability

Congestion Control in High Speed Integrated Service Networks
Partho Pratim Mishra

Data Link Switching, SDLC Conversion, SDLC Passthrough, Etc. SNA Connection Methods within Today's Wide Area Networks. An Overview
C. Steven Lingafelt, Sr.

DEC Lastport Protocol - Estimating Network Performance
Charles Birkhead

Helping your LAN Deliver Inter-functionality Using IP Addresses
Joan Stone & Christopher Lemelin

Modelling a Multiple Segment LAN
Ankur R. Hajare

Network Capacity Planning
John Vicente

Performance Evaluation of TCP/IP Socket API in a Client/Server Environment
T. Leo Lo

Routing, Shooting and Electrocuting
Richard Hutcheson

SNAI Performance on a Large-scale UNIX System
Rayne Chen

TCP/IP Performance in a Client-Server Environment
Rayne Chen

Tuning Computer Software by Putting 'Knowledge of the Experts' on Your Work Station; An Example
Hossein H. Ghannad

Open Systems: Client/Server

A Road Map to Client-Server Computing
Dr. Bernard Domanski

An Introduction to Client/Server Computing
Jacquelyn Banks

Applications Performance Modeling in Client/Server Environments
Raymond Venoski & Zheng Liu, Ph.D.

Client/Server Capacity Planning Challenges
Joseph B. Major

Client/Server Systems Management
George Dodson & Ruth Heidel

Decentralizing Traditional Processing: The Bumpy Road to the Promised Land
Randolph L. Smith

Desktop Capacity Studies: A Methodology for Sizing Desktop Computing Systems
Lorin B. Olsen

Downsizing or Cooperative Processing - What is the Right Choice?
Eddie Rabinovitch

Management of Distributed Applications
Jim Rosborough

Oops I'm a Client Server
Vincent Mraz

Performance and Capacity Management of Distributed UNIX Systems: the Glasshouse Approach
Eric D. Ho & Boris Geller

Performance Engineering for Client/Server and Distributed Applications
Jack Gunther

Performance Engineering in a Distributed Environment: A Success Story
Stuart R. Goodgold

Performance Measurement of Client-Server Architectures: A Document Image Processing System Case Study
Alan Harbitter & Michael Proppe

Performance Modeling of Open and Distributed Computer Systems
Sheldon T. Becker & Dennis S. Mok

Spreadsheet Models Using Transaction Arrival Rate to Size Servers
Carol Swink

Use of the PC to Assist and Present Mainframe Data Analysis
Linwood Merritt

Open Systems: Single Platform

Accounting for Long Running UNIX Processes
Joseph W. Glenski

An Analytical System Selection Methodology
Dr. Edward I. Cohen

An Intelligent Migration from the Mainframe to Workstations: A Case Study in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Ellen Friedman & Jerry Rosenberg & Banvir Chaudhary & Tho

Automating Performance Reporting in a Windows Environment
Jeffry A. Schwartz

Issues in Distributed and Open System Resource Management
Doug McBride

IT Infrastructure Planning: CATCH 22 - 29 or Cost-Benefit Analysis of Performance Engineering & Capacity Management in Open Systems.
Adam Grummitt

Major Mistakes in Platform Planning
Jerry L. Rosenberg & Ellen M. Friedman

Management Survival Guide to Open Systems Terminology
Arvis A. Johnson

Modeling a Major Platform Shift: DEC Alpha AXP
M. R. Stadelmann

Modeling the Computer Performance of a Satellite Ground Station
Charles T. Alexander

MVS Network File System Server: Performance Considerations
Diana B. Husband

Open Systems: Facts and Myths
Jacquelyn Banks

Porting Your Systems Skills to UNIX
Mira J. Shapiro & Eileen L. Bianchini

Rightsizing Your Mainframe - Performance Criteria
James A Hepler

Surviving the 90's: Rightsizing Skills for Capacity and Performance Management
Dr. Leonard D. Lipner

Tuning the DOS/Windows Environment
Herbert A. Chong

Workload Characterization and Analysis: Transition from Centralized Systems to Open Systems
L.E. Heindel & V. A. Kasten

Performance Management

Adapting Statistical Quality Control to the Management of Computer Performance
Richard J. Schwartz

AS/400 Performance Management Technology
Walter H. Schwane

Baseline Interval Selection
William John Chisholm Jr.

Basic Capacity Planning During a CPU Upgrade
Harold J. Heinz

Capacity Planning of AS/400 Systems
Eric D. Ho & Lynor Lisi

Capacity Planning: Tips and Techniques
Tim Follen

Comparing Processor Performance: How to Specify What You Want and Determine if You Got It
Dr. H. Pat Artis & Jim Walters

CPU QRatio
Bob Chaney Jr.

Enterprise Wide Alert System: A Pro-Active Approach
Jerry W. Steinhardt

Hardware Projections Using Natural Forecasting Units
Teymoor Rashid

High Utilization Effect: How Global Processor Cache Improves System Throughput
Catherine S. Nolan & Jack N. Morrison

Implementing an Enhanced Capacity Planning Methodology
Linwood Merritt

Introduction to Numerically Intensive Computing for Capacity Planners and Performance Specialists
Clifford J. Goosmann

Rating Processors Without Benchmarks: An Introductory Tutorial
Gene Leganza

Some Tough Puzzles: A Possible Role for AI in CPE
Ray Dickensheets

System Performance Benchmarks : Proprietary and Public
KR Huppler & IS Kiss

The Role of the CPE Professional in an Outsourced Environment ...(or, There's Life After Outsourcing)
Gregory Caliri

Total Quality Management and Computer Performance Evaluation: Identifying the Overlaps and Maximizing Your Quality Capacity
Ronald D. Lear

Tracking Data in Capacity Planning
Ray Wicks

Using Stress Testing to Uncover Performance Bottlenecks in a Telephone Network Engineering Software System
T. Steven Yuen

Actions for Systems Management
Rich Olcott

Continuous Cost and Quality Improvement: An MIS Case Study
Guy B. Olney

It's the INFORMATION, Stupid! A Simple and Cost Effective Executive Information System
Wayne S. Papy & Richard Hoag

Managing the Mainframe as a Business Asset Capacity/Demand Management through Cross Functional Teams
Dick Hoag & Phil Long

Performance Problem Management: Fire Fighting 90's Style
Paul A. Gersch

The House of Quality and Service Management
T. Leo Lo & Kenneth W. Kolence

S/390 Platforms

ABARS - A Critical Piece in the DFSMS Puzzle
Bradley R. Bruhahn

Central Storage Management with MVS/ESA
Donald R. Deese

Eliminating I/O with LLA
Dale St. Amant

ESCON and Performance
Gail Greenspan

Expanded Storage Management with MVS/ESA
Donald R. Deese

Logical Partitioning Methodologies
Carolyn Hanna

Mainframe Workload Change and the Capacity Line
Joseph B. Major

MVS Performance: Using GTF Trace to Track SRM Sysevents
Bryant L. Osborn

Performance Benefits and Practical Uses of MVS/ESA Data Spaces
John Fillers & Gerry Gaintner

The Automated VM Performance Analyst
Catherine S. Nolan & Alan R. Furman

The Virtual Processor: Capacity and Performance Analysis in a Partitioned Environment with Fractional Engines
Irwin F. Kraus

Using the MVS/ESA RMF Partition Data Report: A Case Study
Rosemary P. O'Malley

VM/ESA Performance Management in a PR/SM(TM) Environment
Robert L. Guenther

Storage & I/O Subsystems

A Guide to RAID Technology
Mark Friedman

A Pragmatic Approach to Cache Residency Time for the 1990s
Win Bowman

Analysis of Enhanced Dynamic Cache Management
Dr. Gilbert E. Houtekamer

Application System/400 Auxiliary Storage Management
J. L. (Jim) Denton & J. C. (Chuck) Stupca

Concurrent Copy Performance Estimates
Dr. Gilbert E. Houtekamer

DASD Cache Sizing - Rules of Thumb?
David P. Griffith

DFSMS/MVS 1.1 and the IBM 3495 Tape Robot
Chris Fennessy

Dynamic Cache Management and its Effect on On-line Response Time
George Waterson

ECKD CAID and RAID: When is the Right Time to Write?
Dr. H. Pat Artis & Dr. Gilbert E. Houtekamer

Improving Throughput Performance in a 3820 Printer Network
John Shuman

Managing Cache Performance Tunability, Tuning and Dynamic Control
R. P. Kovach

Managing the Introduction of Automated Tape Subsystems or What to do After the SWAT Team Leaves
Steve Worstell & Bob Hussey & Jerry Daniel

Measurements of DFSMS Striping and 3990 Multitrack Prestaging
Jeffrey A. Berger & Chris B. Saul

Modeling, Measuring, and Tuning The Third Wave of Tape Processing
W.T. Gray

Monitoring SMS - The Benefits
Ed Hallock & Bob Hayward & Barry Weinstein

RAID for Big Systems?: Getting from Here to There
John G. Aschoff

RAID, CAID and Virtual Disks: I/O Performance at the Crossroads
J. P. Buzen & A. W. Shum

Storage Management with DFSMS
Clayton S. Ching

The Decomposition of DASD Connect Time
Bill Fairchild

Understanding Background Data Movement in a Log-Structured Disk Subsystem
Bruce McNutt

Upgrading to the IBM 3490W - A User Experience
David C. Thorn

Vsam Tuning - Debunking the Myths
Ronald K. Ferguson

What is an "Average" DASD Seek?
Bill Fairchild

Workload Characterization / Modeling

A Neural Network Approach to Clustering in Workload Characterization
Sayed Atef Banawan & Daniele Micci Barreca

Basics of Queueing Theory for Capacity Planning
Bill Pfeiff

Building Regression Models: An Introduction With a Unix(TM) Case Study
Joseph L. Hellerstein

Calibrating a Baseline Model
John Carroll

Development of a CICS Queueing Model - A Case Study
Tim Follen

Modeling the Performance Budget (A Tutorial)
Bill Zahavi

MVS Memory Modeling
Ruud Van Burgel & Gilbert E. Houtekamer

Workload Forecasting: Getting the Right Numbers
Stan Laugher

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Advantages of the Well-Planned Enterprise - From Strategic Planning Through Service Level Agreements
Walter C. Ellis & Michael C. Heffner