z/OS Performance Management in an AI World ..... July 9th ..... Sign up using this link

In an Artificial Intelligence (AI) world, many believe that z/OS Performance Management will change dramatically since the AI engines will help companies manage the performance of their environments. While AI will change the day-to-day z/OS performance management tasks, Actual Intelligence will be more necessary than ever. During this webinar, Peter Enrico will discuss growing need for Actual Intelligence while managing z/OS performance in an Artificial Intelligence (AI) world.

Understanding and Comparing z Processors ..... July 23rd ..... Sign up using this link

The mainframe CECs are made up of drawers which contain DCMs, which contain chips, which contain cores. This hardware is used to run workloads in LPARs on processors characterized as CPs, zIIPs, IFLs, and ICFs. The logical processors are further designated into HiperDispatch pools of high, medium, low, and offline. The mapping of an LPAR’s logical processors onto the physical layout of chips, DCMs, and drawers is interesting because it can both positively and negatively affect performance and the overall MIPS delivered by the CEC. During this webinar, Scott Chapman will discuss the topology measurements available to help a z/OS shop gain insights into the efficiency of an LPAR's processor topology.

SMF 99 WLM Decision-Making Traces ..... August 6th ..... Sign up using this link

For the last 30 years, WLM has made trace data available to help us understand the decisions it makes when managing WLM service class periods when meeting their goals. During this webinar, Peter Enrico will review the available WLM trace measurements, discuss common terms used by WLM when managing workloads, and walk us through some WLM traces to show how WLM decisions are made. This webinar will be interesting to those who want to have a better understanding of how WLM works.

Optimization in the Application Trenches ..... August 27th AT 9AM EASTERN..... Sign up using this link

ECMP partners with EPS in various areas around optimization/consumption reduction. This session will focus on some areas of interest in application tuning, with some real-life examples. We will also give some hints and tips for using various tools and how to unlock hidden overheads. Join us in this collaborative presentation with Alan Mackenzie and Adam Baldwin from ECMP. This webinar will feature a Q&A portion at the end with Peter Enrico and Scott Chapman as well.

Understanding SMF 98 Address Space Consumption Measurements ..... September 17th ..... Sign up using this link

As we have previously discussed, the SMF 98 records are still a fairly new record, and there is still so much to learn about these high-frequency measurements. One set of measurements provided in the SMF 98 record are address space consumption measurements, which contain information about work unit dispatch times, dispatch counts, execution efficiency, and spin lock data for various priority buckets. What does all this mean? Well, we are not too sure yet, so attend this webinar with Scott Chapman to hear the results of our exploration of these measurements.