The next meeting of the NY Metro NaSPA Chapter will be on Tuesday, 23 June 2009 in room 1219 at the IBM Building at 590 Madison Avenue, New York City, from 10:00 AM until 4:30 PM. We have a full-day of great sessions planned with some of the best System z speakers in the industry. Sessions for the day include:
"HiperDispatch from a SysProgs Perspective", Bob Rogers, z/OS Designer/Philosopher, IBM Corporation z/OS 1.10 and PR/SM, on the new IBM System z10 processor, cooperate to reduce LPAR overhead and to optimize processor cache efficiency. This facility is called HiperDispatch. The z/OS support is also provided on some previous releases. Historically, z/OS treated all the general purpose processors in the configuration as a symmetric pool of resources and did not attempt throughput optimization through affinity dispatching. As instruction processing gets faster, while the latencies to memory and cache grow relative to processor speed, dispatching with affinity becomes ever more important for minimizing these latencies. The improved cache utilization provided by HiperDispatch can boost throughput, particularly on multi-book systems. This presentation reviews the historical context for these enhancements and provides an overview of the affinity dispatching techniques that constitute HiperDispatch. "Comparing and Contrasting Virtualization Technologies", Mike Buzzetti, IBM Design Center Do you know the differences between Xen and VMware? Do you know when it is more advantageous to use one over the other? Virtualization can be a complicated subject with many different facets, and it is not always easy to choose the strategy that best fits your needs. This session will explore the various virtualization options that apply to System x, System p and System z. You will learn about the commonalities between each offering and also how they differ. Come and let the speaker make things clearer if you find yourself in a virtualization haze. "Get Your Hands-in: The JCL Builder for z/OS", Geoff Smith, IBM Corporation The JCL Samples for Beginners was developed out of the need to simplify learning JCL. Customers have complained that learning JCL is a big inhibitor in learning z/OS. JCL Samples for Beginners is part of a larger effort called the z/OS Basics Skills Information Center. Both JCL Samples and the Information Center were developed to provide free education for people who are new to z/OS and to the platform. The JCL Samples for beginners provides a browser based interface that let users choose and modify a set of JCL samples. For each sample, the provides context sensitive help on syntax and parameters so that the user learns how the sample works and is not just blindly submitting code they don't understand. Once they have filled in the template, they can then submit the job to z/OS. The submission and the results are returned via FTP on z/OS. (The tool itself run on z/OS.) If there are errors the tool provides links to information to help the user correct the errors. What's New in ISPF: A User's View, Bill Vender, DTCC ISPF is one of the most frequently used tools on z/OS. Over the years, many new functions have been introduced, some of which have been overlooked by z/OS users. This session presents some of the ones that you may have missed that you will find useful. An Introduction to SLIP, Evan Haruta, IBM Corporation In this session, the speaker will provide an introduction to Serviceability Level Indication Processing (SLIP), a beginner's guide on how SLIP works, when to use it, and what it will accomplish. He will explain how you can use SLIP to collect problem diagnostic documentation for dumps and traces. SLIP can also be set to trigger as the result of numerous environmental conditions such as module execution (Instruction Fetch), abends (Completion Codes), storage alteration (SA), and branching events (Successful Branch To). He will show how to code the different forms of SLIP, using different keywords for a variety of circumstances, and then walk through examples of good and bad SLIP commands. The speaker will provide you a greater understanding of when and why to use SLIP on your system, as well as an understanding of why Level-2 is setting a SLIP for the problem you might be diagnosing. Pre-registration is requested and recommended as it simplifies getting into the building and helps us get the room set up correctly. Please RSVP to mar...@us.ibm.com as soon as is possible if you are thinking of attending. The meeting is open to non-NaSPA members and is free. Please pass this invitation on to your colleagues! Thanks!!!! - Mark Mark Nelson, CISSP, CSSLP z/OS Security Server (RACF) Design and Development IBM Corporation 2455 South Road MS/P388 Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 (845) 435-7758, tie line 8+295-7758, fax (845) 432-9589 mar...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
