Past
meetings and agendas: last updated
April 11,
2020 home
CMG CANADA
Winter Seminar (Mar 03, 2020)
at C’est What 67 Front
Street East (map)
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Sponsored by 
Formal Agenda word pdf (abstracts - bios)
09:00
Welcome CMG Canada
09:05 Tech1 Bank Sells Pension Business:
Mainframe Open Heart Surgery! pdf
Udi
Fridenshtein & Steve Taite - MOST Technologies (remote, with a local representative)
10:05 Break
10 minutes
10:15 Tech2 If it’s not IDAA or Db2 Buffers,
then what exactly is In-Memory Processing? pdf
Larry
Strickland, DataKinetics
11:15 Break
10 minutes
11:25 Tech3 Save MSU’s and Reduce Run-Times
for Analytics and MXG
Reporting pptx
Paul
Massengill - Luminex Software
12:25 Lunch on your own
14:00 Spons1 Luminex Corporate & Solution
Overview - (vendor Marketing
Presentation) pdf
Kent Falknor - Luminex Software
14:30 Break
10 minutes
14:40 Tech4 Snail4j:
Java Performance Education for All (remote) pdf
Eric
Ostermueller
15:40 Break
10 minutes
15:50 Tech5 Performance and Capacity Planning
Overview pptx
Mukund
Muralidharan - HCL
Technologies
16:50 Close CMG Canada
16:55 Adjourn -
networking at C’est What? All
invited
CMG CANADA
Fall Seminar (OCT 22, 2019)
at C’est What 67 Front
Street East (map)
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Formal Agenda word pdf
(abstracts -
bios)
09:00
Welcome CMG Canada
09:05 Performance Analysis in the Real
World
John Baker
- Intellimagic
10:05 Break
10 minutes
10:15 Overview of IBM’s new z15 and
LinuxONE III Servers pdf
Jim Elliott
- GlassHouse Systems
11:15 Break
10 minutes
11:25 A Plan for Java Performance
Training pdf
Erik
Ostermueller
12:25 Lunch
on your own
14:00 More/Slower vs. Fewer/Faster CPUs:
Practical Considerations – pdf
Scott Chapman
- Enterprise Performance Strategies
15:00 Break
10 minutes
15:10 Revisiting WLM Options for the
Modern Mainframe – pdf
Scott Chapman
- Enterprise Performance Strategies
16:10 Close CMG Canada
16:15 Adjourn -
networking at C’est What?
CMG CANADA
Spring Conference (May 28/29, 2019)
at C’est What 67 Front
Street East (map)
Tuesday May 28, 2019
Formal Agenda word pdf (abstracts - bios)
9:00 Welcome
Cmg Canada
9:05 (Road) Rage against the machine: Understanding - and dealing with
- z14 traffic patterns pdf
John
Baker - Intellimagic
10:05 Break 10 minutes
10:15 Storage Performance Best Practices pptx
Brett
Allison - Intellimagic
11:15 Break 10 minutes
11:25 Problems with In Memory Processing pptx
Larry
Strickland - DataKinetics
12:25 Lunch on
your own
14:00 Recent advances in Computer
Vision – and what you can do with it pptx
Larry
Strickland - DataKinetics
15:00 Break 10 minutes
15:10 Business Continuity & Contingency Planning pptx
Jonathan
Gladstone - Bank of Montreal
16:20 Adjourn
- networking at C’est What?
Wednesday May 29, 2019
Formal Agenda word pdf (abstracts - bios)
9:00 Welcome
Cmg Canada
9:05 DB2
Buffer Pool Tuning & pptx
RMF III &
RMFDDS for Performance and Capacity Planning
pptx
Alice Wah,
Paul Liao & Kenneth Tse - Royal Bank
of Canada
10:05 Break 10 minutes
10:15 Algorithmic
trading and Artificial Intelligence pptx
Jake
Amaral - WeTradeHQ
11:15 Break 10 minutes
11:25 And now
for something completely different: IBM rolls the ‘four-hour’ out the door! pdf
John
Baker - Intellimagic
12:25 Lunch on
your own
14:00 Enhancements in IBM
z/OS 2.4 pdf
Jim
Elliott - Mainframe Consultant, GlassHouse Systems Inc.
15:00 Break 10 minutes
15:10 Best Practices for Improved
z-OS Performance and Lower TCO & pdf
IBM
Mainframes Strategic Viability Debunked (draft) pdf
Ivan
Gelb - Gelb Information Systems
16:20 Adjourn
- networking at C’est What?
CMG CANADA Winter Conference (Mar 05, 2019) CANCELLED
at C’est What 67
Front Street East (map)
Tuesday Mar
05, 2019 (Cancelled)
***
CMG CANADA
Fall Conference (Nov 20, 2018)
at C’est What 67 Front Street East (map)
Tuesday Nov 20, 2018
Our sponsor
for the Tuesday session is
Partial Agenda word pdf (abstracts - bios)
08:30
Continental breakfast, sign-in & registration
09:00
Welcome
CMG Canada Board
09:05
Tech1
How to optimize capacity in public cloud pdf
Per
Bauer - HelpSystems/TeamQuest
10:05
Break
10:15
Tech2
Confessions of a cost-aholic? An
insider's thoughts on software costs - and opportunities pdf
John
Baker - Intellimagic
11:15
Break
11:25
Tech3
Something about performance monitoring and management
John
Baker - Intellimagic (Sponsor Marketing Presentation)
12:00
Lunch
On your own, at C’est What? or
elsewhere
14:00 Spons1
The Benefits and Growth of in-memory Database and Data
Processing pdf
Larry
Strickland - DataKinetics
15:00
Break
15:10
Tech4
Mainframe 101 pptx
Jonathan Gladstone, BMO & Georgian College
16:10
Closing
CMG Canada Board
16:20 Adjourn
Followed by members’ reception at
C’est What?
CMG CANADA
Spring Conference (Apr 24/25, 2018)
Tues & Wed - Apr. 24th & 25th, 2018 at C’est What 67 Front Street East (map)
DAY 1: Tuesday April 24, 2018
Our
sponsor for the Tuesday session is
Formal Agenda word pdf (abstracts - bios)
08:30 Continental breakfast, sign-in &
registration
09:00
Welcome
CMG Canada Board
09:05
Tech1
Capacity Management Essentials: a Framework for Capacity Analysis
Debbie Sheetz -
MBI Solutions pdf
10:05 Break
10:15
Tech2
Expose Performance Bugs in Any Running Java Process
Erik Ostermueller - Fidelity pdf pptx
11:15 Break
11:25
Tech3
Top 7 Ways to Optimize Your Cloud
Andy Walton - Densify pptx
12:25 Lunch
On your own, at C’est What? or
elsewhere
14:00
Spons1 Measuring
Your Network’s Resilience, On Prem and in the Cloud
Raymond Chan - RedSeal (Sponsor
Marketing Presentation)
14:30
Break
14:40
Tech4
Open Source Monitoring of Private/Public Cloud Environments
Joe Calçada, IBM Canada pdf
15:40
Tech5 Security Metrics that Don’t Suck
Dr. Mike Lloyd
- RedSeal pptx
16:40
Closing
CMG Canada Board
16:45 Adjourn
Followed by members’ reception at C’est What?
DAY 2:
Wednesday April 25, 2018
Our
sponsor for the Wednesday session is
08:30 Continental breakfast,
sign-in & registration
09:00
Welcome
CMG Canada Board
09:05
Tech1
IBM’s New z14 and LinuxONE Announcement Overview
Jim Elliott -
GlassHouse Systems pdf
10:05
Break
10:15
Tech2
IBM Z Batch Network Analyzer (zBNA) Tool
Jim Elliott -
GlassHouse Systems pdf
11:15
Break
11:25
Tech3
Putting your z/OS Operational Data to Work
Paul Hall -
IBM Canada pdf
12:25
Lunch
On your own, at C’est What? or
elsewhere
14:00
Spons4
Cost Savings While Increasing Capacity
John Baker -
DKL (Sponsor
Marketing Presentation)
14:30
Break
14:40
Tech4
Flash vs. Flash: What’s In It For Me?
John Baker -
DKL pdf
15:40
Tech5 Developing
Tools for Game Development: How to make tools that support your team
Daniel Saulnier -
Sheridan College pptx
16:40
Closing
CMG Canada Board
16:45 Adjourn
Followed by members’ reception at C’est What?
CMG CANADA
Winter Seminar (Feb 27, 2018)
Tues Feb. 27th, 2018 at C’est What 67 Front Street East (map)
Our sponsor for this session is
Tuesday February 27, 2018 (Formal Agenda word pdf)
08:30
Continental breakfast, sign-in & registration
09:00
Welcome
CMG Canada Board
09:05
Tech1
Understanding MLC Cost Impact of Performance & Capacity Management]
Don Zeunert -
BMC
pdf
10:05
Break
10:15
Tech2
Challenges of MSU Capping without Impacting SLAs
Don Zeunert -
BMC
pdf
11:15
Break
11:25
Tech3
2018 RMF/SMF Analytics Status & Predictions,
Brent Phillips &
Todd Havekost - Intellimagic pdf link to recording
12:25
Lunch
On your own, at C’est What? or
elsewhere
14:00
Tech4
IBM Machine Learning for z/OS: Turning Data into Insight, and Insight into Opportunity -
Erwin Bautista - IBM Canada pdf
15:00
Break
15:10
Tech5
Are You A Speed Reader? – Optimizing Access to Tiered Storage,
John Baker - Data Kinetics pdf
16:40
Closing
CMG Canada Board
16:45
Adjourn
Followed by members’ reception at C’est What?
CMG CANADA
Fall Seminar (Oct 24, 2017)
Tues Oct. 24th, 2017 C’est What 67 Front Street East (map)
Our sponsor for this session is
Tuesday October 24, 2017 (Formal Agenda word
pdf)
09:00 Welcome CMG Canada Board
09:05 Cybersecurity, Capacity, and the Insider Threat pdf pptx
Chris Greco - GRECTECH (Chris was awarded the J. Mullen award in 2016)
10:05 Coffee Break
10:15
Pres 1: Mainframe Capacity Management – Time to come
out of the silo pdf
Pres 2: Shadow IT - Embrace and Accept or Not pdf
Charles Johnson - Syncsort/Metron-Athene
11:45 Lunch (on your own)
13:15 Athene® - Capacity Management for Today’s Reality (Sponsor Marketing Presentation)
Don Fadel - Syncsort/Metron-Athene
13:45 Coffee Break
13:55 Introducing the IBM z14™, the newest addition to the IBM Z® family pdf
Jim Elliott - GlassHouse
15:25 Coffee Break
15:35 Measuring Capacity (or How big is your foot?) pdf
Pedro Escosteguy - Pedro Escosteguy Resources Inc.
16:35 Closing
CMG Canada Board
16:40
Adjourn
Followed by members’ reception at C’est What?
CMG CANADA
Spring Conference (Apr 25-26, 2017)
Tues
& Wed April 25th & 26th, 2017 C’est What
67 Front Street East (map)
Tuesday day 1 sponsored by
Wednesday day 2 sponsored by
Day
1: Tuesday April 25, 2017
Sponsored
by 
08:30 Continental breakfast
09:00 Welcome Peter
Livingston CMG Canada Program
Chair/Webmaster
09:05 Capacity
Planning Methodology (A Refresher) pdf
Pedro Escosteguy Pedro
Escosteguy Resources Inc.
10:05 Coffee
break
10:15 Introduction
to Oracle Management Cloud Service pdf
Ben Reader Oracle
11:15 Coffee
break
11:25 Behaviour-driven
Cost Reduction in z/OS Production and Development Environments pptx
Jonathan
Gladstone Bank of Montreal
11:55
Lunch on your own
01:30 Application
Performance Management for Cloud Applications recording of webinar (google drive one drive )
Priyanka Arora
MUFG Union Bank slides
pdf
In 2016 Priyanka was presented with
the Mullen Award for the presentation above,
at the CMG imPACt conference last November in La Jolla
CA.
The Mullen award is presented to someone exhibiting technical excellence
and an engaging presentation
style.
02:30
Coffee break
02:40 Restoring
Data Storage Predictability pdf
Brett Allison
IntelliMagic
Note: the above presentation was broadcast as a webinar as part of this event.
Webinar recording webinar
03:40 Coffee
break
03:50 IT
& Business Analytics link to drop box
Andrew
Armstrong
Data Kinetics
04:50 Adjourn
04:55 Members reception (Speakers invited) at C'est What Restaurant
Day 2: Wednesday April
26, 2017
Sponsored
by 
08:30
Continental breakfast
09:00
Welcome
Peter
Livingston CMG
Canada program Chair/Webmaster
09:05
Don's Diatribe XIX
Don
Melton Vatic Technologies
10:05 Coffee break
10:15 Achieving
CPU (& MLC) Savings through Optimizing Processor Cache pdf
Todd Havekost
IntelliMagic
Note: the above presentation was broadcast as a webinar as part of this
event.
Webinar recording webinar
11:15
Coffee break
11:25
(a message from our sponsor
INTELLIMAGIC – pptx
CMG Guidelines waived for this presentation)
Dan
Speer
IntelliMagic
11:55
Lunch on your own
01:30
z Systems Hardware Update pdf
Jim
Elliott
GlassHouse Systems Inc.
02:30 Coffee break
02:40
z Systems Operating Systems Update pdf (same
as above part 2)
Jim
Elliott
GlassHouse Systems Inc.
03:40 Coffee break
03:50
Deliver a Memorable Technical Presentation pdf
Milan
Babiak
IBM Canada
04:50
Closing CMG Canada Board
04:55
Adjourn: Members reception (Speakers invited) at C'est What Restaurant
CMG CANADA Winter Seminar
Tues Feb 28th, 2017 at C’est
What
67 Front Street East (map)
Sponsored
by 
08:30 Continental breakfast
09:00
Welcome Peter Livingston CMG Canada Program Chair
09:05 Retail Capacity Planning (pptx)
Rod
Russell (Loblaw Companies Ltd.)
10:05 Coffee break
10:15 Java Performance Monitoring Tools (pptx)
Erik Ostermueller (FIS)
Erik is a CMG Mullen Award winner (for best paper in
2011).
Click below for description of the Mullen Award and
past winners :
https://www.cmg.org/about-cmg/awards-scholarships/
11:15 Coffee break
(sponsor:
TELNET NETWORKS - Marketing presentation)
11:25 Active Breach Detection
Done Right - A High Accuracy/Low Noise Solution
Beth
Lustgarten (LightCyber - sponsored by Telnet Networks)
11:55
Lunch on your own
01:15 Network Traffic Analysis
Reveals Tools Attackers Use (pptx)
Amos
Green (LightCyber
- sponsored by Telnet Networks)
02:15 Coffee break
02:25 Mainframe Skills Gap (pptx)
Misty
Decker (IBM)
03:25
Coffee break
03:35 imPACt 2016 Retrospective (pptx)
John
Slobodnik (Cogeco Connexion) & Jonathan
Gladstone (Bank of Montreal)
04:35 Adjourn
04:45 Members reception (Speakers
invited)
Tues Oct 18th, 2016 at C’est
What
67 Front Street East (map)
Sponsored by
08:30 Continental breakfast
09:00
Welcome Peter Livingston CMG
Canada Program Chair
09:05 Monitoring the Hybrid Cloud pdf
Joe Calçada IBM
10:05 Coffee break
10:15 Pragmatic Monitoring &
Data philosophy and design therein pptx
Robert Vandervoort IDERA
11:15 Coffee break
11:25 Product Session:
Uptime Infrastructure Monitor and IDERA Products Portfolio
Robert Vandervoort
& Amanda Patrick IDERA
11:55
Lunch on your own
01:15 Mainframe Applications Going
Mobile pdf
Patrick
Fournier SDS
02:15
Coffee break
02:25 Managing Cost Optimization for All Platforms
Larry
Strickland Data Kinetics
03:25 Coffee break
03:35 Capacity Management For Your Entire
Infrastructure: Physical, Virtual & Cloud pdf
Jeff Schultz TeamQuest
04:35 Adjourn
04:45 Members reception (Speakers
invited)
Tues & Wed April 19th & 20th, 2016 at C’est What 67 Front Street East (map)
CMG CANADA 2 Day SPRING CONFERENCE (concluded)
and 
Wednesday sponsored by 
Tuesday April
19, 2016
Sponsored by Riverbed and Senmesoft
09:00 Welcome Tony Mungal CMG Canada President
Thomas
Lo Bank of Montreal (BMO)
10:15 Hyper-
11:25 Product marketing (Steel Fusion - Customer case studies)
01:15 EPV and EADM PDF Q&A
Answers
02:25 3rd Platform
Infrastructures and Software Defined Storage
PDF
Tony
Mungal
CMG Canada President
03:35 Performance
Considerations in Agile
Products PPTX
04:45 Members reception (Speakers invited)
09:00 Welcome Tony Mungal CMG Canada President
10:15 Rapidly Changing App Architectures and the
Impact on Measurement
Evan
Kyriazopoulos AppDynamics
11:25 Product Session (iStrobe)
02:25 Simultaneous Multi Threading x2 (SMT2) on
z/13’s PPTX
Craig
Hodgins Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
03:35 Don's Diatribe
XVIII PDF
04:45 Members reception (Speakers invited)
Tues
February 17th, 2016 at Ces’t
What 67 Front Street
East (map)
Peter Livingston – Program Chair, CMG
Canada
Craig Hodgins - RBC
1:00
PM
Cross Platform Capacity Analysis pptx
Greg Scriba -
BMC
CMG
Canada Presentation Guidelines will be suspended to accommodate the following
presentation
from
our sponsor of the day – BMC
Greg Scriba – BMC
Tues
October 27th, 2015 at Ces’t
What 67 Front Street
East (map)
9:00
AM
Conference Opening Remarks
Peter Livingston – Program Chair, CMG
Canada
9:05
AM
A (please don't) Crash Course in Application
Performance Management
Barry Hemphill - CA
11:30
PM Lunch ( at C'est What dining
room for presenters with cmg canada board)
1:00
PM
Reduce MLC without Capping: Automating
Resource Groups
John Baker
MVS solutions pdf
3:30
PM
Mobile end user experience
Michael Taylor – Compuware pdf
Tues
July 7, 2015 -
this was
an attempt of an extra bonus session(cancelled)
A
day with Peter Enrico of Enterprises
Performance Strategies
This
EVENT had to be cancelled since venue C’est What was under construction. PDF
Tues/Wed
April 14/15, 2015 at Ces’t
What 67 Front Street
East (map)
Agenda:
Apr14152015.docx
Apr14152015.pdf
DAY
1: Tuesday April 14th 2015
Anthony
G. Mungal - President, CMG Canada
09:05 IBM z13 Technical Overview pdf
Jim Elliott -
IBM Canada (Sponsor
of today’s event)
10:35 IBM’s Mainframes: Life-Cycle and Recent Developments pdf
ppt
Jonathan
Gladstone – Bank of Montreal
11:50 Product Presentation: New Software Pricing Options for IBM z
Systems pdf
Jim Elliott - IBM Canada (Sponsor of today’s event)
1:30 What’s in Your Nest? More than ever – Less is More! pdf
2:55 Performance aspects of HASH pdf
Larry
Strickland - DataKinetics
4:15 Adjourn & Members Reception
DAY 2: Wednesday April 15th
2015 at Ces’t
What 67 Front Street East (map)
Anthony
Mungal - President, CMG Canada
09:05
Leveraging
the New and Changing IT Infrastructure pdf
10:35 Introduction to Software Defined Networking (SDN) and how it will
change the inside of your
DataCentre forever. pdf
Wilfried van Haeren - Edgeworx
Solutions Inc.
Don Melton – Vatic Technologies
3:00 Panel - Follow up session on today’s and yesterday’s discussions
Wednesday
October 29th, 2014
at C’est
What 67
Front Street East
Full Agenda:
Oct292014doc Oct292014.pdf
9:05 AM The Mainframe is Dead, Long Live the
Mainframe
10:35
AM Planning
for the New Architecture: Performance, Capacity and Management
Peter Dyer – Uptime
Software ppt
1:15 PM Understanding
storage in a VDI environment
2:45 PM Panel: Issues in Capacity Planning
& Performance Measurement in the Modern Data Centre
Don Melton (moderator) – Vatic Technologies
Tues/Wed
April 15/16, 2014
at Ces’t What 67 Front Street East (map)
Agenda:
Apr15162014.doc Apr15162014.pdf
DAY
1: Tuesday April 15th 2014
Anthony
G. Mungal - President, CMG Canada
09:05 Capacity Planning in the
Cloud:
Does
Capacity Planning Fundamentally Change when Resources are
10:35 IT Analytics and Big Data pptx
1:30 Planning and
Auditing Your Firm’s Capacity Planning Efforts (Part 1) pptx (both Part 1
& 2)
Ron
Kaminski
- Kimberly-Clark (Mullen Award Winner - 2003) doc (2003 Mullen paper)
Ron
Kaminski - Kimberly-Clark (Mullen Award
Winner - 2003)
4:45 Adjourn &
Members Reception
DAY 2: Wednesday April 16th
2014 at Ces’t What
67 Front Street East
Anthony
G. Mungal - President, CMG Canada
09:05
It's
Not Always What You Say... pptx
Ron
Kaminski - Kimberly-Clark (Mullen Award
Winner - 2003)
Larry Strickland – Data
Kinetics
11:50 Product
Presentation: pdf
Larry
Strickland – Data Kinetics
John
Baker – MVS Solutions Inc.
Don Melton – Vatic Technologies
4:30 Adjourn &
Members Reception
Tuesday
February 18, 2014 at Ces’t What 67 Front
Street East
Full Agenda:
Feb182014.doc Feb182014.pdf
Anthony G. Mungal - President, CMG Canada
09:05
Are
you exploiting analytics to search and manage big data technologies PDF
10:35
Capacity
Planning and Management in the Real World –
Success
and Failures that we see PPTX
October
08, 2013 at Ces’t What 67 Front
Street East
Full Agenda:
Oct082013.doc Oct082013.pdf
Anthony
G. Mungal - President, CMG Canada
09:05
How
to Survive the New Normal of the Mainframe PPTX
10:35
Can
Capacity Planning and Finance Co-exist? PDF
13:30
Storage:
Cost, Classification and Processes PDF PDF(with
notes)
Anthony
Mungal - Senior Consultant
15:00
Big
Data Use Case - Finding a Needle in the HayStack PDF
April
16/17, 2013 at Ces’t What 67 Front Street East welcome
letter
Final
agenda agendaApr16172013.doc agendaApr16172013.pdf
DAY
1: Tuesday April 16th 2013
9:00
AM Conference Opening Remarks
Anthony G. Mungal – President, CMG Canada
Anthony G. Mungal – Senior Consultant
10:35
AM APM In The Cloud -
Are You Ready? PPT
11:45
AM Compuware
Product Session
12:15
PM Lunch ( at C’est What dining room - courtesy of Compuware!)
1:30
PM CMG’11 MULLEN
AWARD WINNER – TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE & PRESENTATION
Performance
Defects Paper presentation
Erik Ostermueller – FIS Global
2:30
PM High Frequency
Trading link to video of presentation
James Arlen - Leviathan Security Group
Don Melton – Vatic Technologies
4:45
PM Adjourn & Members Reception
DAY
2: Wednesday April 17th 2013 at
Ces’t What 67 Front Street East
Anthony G. Mungal – President, CMG Canada
9:05
AM BuzzFibreChannel
– to 16G and Beyond pdf
10:15
AM CMG’11 MULLEN
AWARD WINNER – TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE & PRESENTATION
The Penguins
Have Landed – Getting Started With Linux On System z
Mike Giglio – Shelter Insurance
11:30
AM Manage Your IBM Sub
Capacity Pricing – Are You STILL Paying Too Much?
1:30
PM Technical
Discussion On “In Memory Tables”
2:45
PM Product
Presentation: Auto Soft Capping (ASC) –
What is your Sub Capacity Pricing strategy?
Jonathan Gladstone – BMO Financial
Group PDF
October
16, 2012 at Ces’t What 67 Front
Street East
Final
agenda agendaOct162012.doc agendaOct162012.pdf
08:30
AM Continental Breakfast
09:05
AM Sustainable Cost Reduction
10:35
AM Providing monitoring that is
reliable, comprehensive and understandable
03:00
PM Unified
Service Delivery - Transforming Performance Management
April
17th & 18th, 2012 at Ces’t What 67 Front
Street East
Detailed
Agenda April17182012.pdf April17182012.doc
09:05
am Evolving
It infrastructures
Anthony G. Mungal – Senior Consultant
10:35
am IPV6 - Why Can't We Just Be Happy With NAT? PDF
02:15
pm CMG
2011 Highlights PPTX
John
Slobodnik – Toronto Hydro
03:15
pm Don's
Diatribe XIV PDF
Don
Melton – Vatic Technologies
10:35
am Storage
Performance: Changing Perspectives in the zEnterprise Environments
Anthony
G. Mungal – Senior Consultant
10:35
am Approaches
For Optimizing Batch On System z pdf
01:30
pm System
z Panel: “Thinking Outside The Box Without Leaving The Box”
Panelists:
Anthony Mungal, Gord Neill, Don Melton, Jonathan Gladstone
02:45
pm Customer
Experiences With Hiperdispatch And Soft Capping In IBM Mainframe Systems PPT
Jonathan
Gladstone – Bank of Montreal
February
21st, 2012 (half day)
at Ces’t What 67 Front Street East
A
detailed agenda for the February 21 meeting can be downloaded from one of these
files.
agendaFeb212012.pdf or agendaFeb212012.doc
01:20
PM Optimizing Performance and
Capacity in Private and Hybrid Clouds
02:45
PM Transaction Following Using
PurePath
09:05
AM Discover
Active Capacity Planning: – What you, the capacity planner,
can
do to impact your company’s bottom line
10:15
AM A
Usage Based Approach to Updating the FICON Infrastructure
11:30 EPV
Marketing Session – CMG Rules suspended for this session
Danilo Gipponi - EPV Technologies
02:30
PM Collecting
and using SMF 113 and other MF metrics
Danilo
Gipponi, Fabio Massimo Ottaviani - EPV Technologies
April
19 & 20, 2011 at Ces’t What 67 Front Street East
agendaApr19202011-Final1.pdf or agendaApr19202011-Final1.doc
(Posted
Apr 15) CMG Canada has finalized arrangements for our April 19 and 20 seminar.
The
theme for the 19th is Open Systems, and for the 20th
Mainframes.
DAY
1: Tuesday April 19th 2011 – “Open Systems Day”
Monitoring Transactions from End to
End
An
Introduction to Web Analytics for Performance Analysts and Capacity Planners
VMware Capacity Management - Now the Dust is Settling... pptx
Charles
Johnson – Metron Athene
VMware vSphere - Avoiding an Internal Storm?
Charles
Johnson – Metron Athene
DAY
2: Wednesday April 20th 2011 – “Mainframe Day”
A
Real-World Application of Dynamic Thresholds for Performance Management.
Jonathan
Gladstone - BMO (
Bank of Montreal)
An
Algorithmic Approach to Multi-tiering in Enterprise Storage Subsystems
Anthony
G. Mungal – EMC Corporation
Roles
We Verse, All with CA Mainframe Chorus
Cumulo-Nimble:
Mainframes and Cloud Computing
zEnterprise
update: Focus on zBX (Blade Extension)
Business
Transaction Management
Don
Melton – Vatic Technologies
February
22, 2011
at Ces’t What 67 Front Street East
view detailed agenda in -
agendaFeb222011.doc
or agendaFeb222011.pdf
October
19, 2010 at Ces’t What 67
Front Street East
detailed agenda - agendaOct192010rev.doc
or agendaOct192010rev.pdf
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Management
Alon
Ben-Shoshan – Correlsense
Inifiniband
Networking - The Need for Speed
Workload
Performance Management
Fabio
Gammerino and Dilara Buyuk – ORSYP
IT
Performance Management in a Financial Crisis
April
13 & 14, 2010 at Ces’t What 67 Front Street East
detailed
agenda - agendaApr13142010a.doc or agendaApr13142010a.pdf
How
Many JES2 or WLM Initiators Are Right?
R
– What every Capacity Planner and Performance Analysts Needs to Know
System
z Family Product Update
Saving
Money (and your mainframe)
Danilo
Gipponi - EPV Technologies
Capacity
Planning Issues in 2010
Danilo
Gipponi - EPV Technologies
EPV
– This marketing session is by today’s sponsor – Senmesoft
Changing
perspective on database performance and capacity planning with Oracle Exadata
technology
Changing
in a Flash - The Impact of Flash and Solid State Disks on Capacity and
Performance Planning
Forecasting
Data Center Power Requirements: Tips from the Trenches
Frank
Bereznay - IBM / Kaiser Permanente
Capacity
Planning - Why do it?
John
Slobodnik – Toronto Hydro
Network
Latency and Application Performance pdf
Wilfried
von Haren – Predictive Networks
Don
Melton – Vatic Technologies
February
23, 2010 at Ces’t What 67
Front Street East
detailed
agenda - agendaFeb232010.doc or agendaFeb232010.pdf
§ Performance
Comparison: Migrating from IBM System z9 to z10
- Load
Testing Is Easy. Good Load Testing Is Not.
Preparation is the Difference.
- A
New Perspective on Enterprise Storage Tiers
- Fibre
Channel storage and SAN infrastructure optimization using instrumentation
in real-time
October
20, 2009 at Ces’t What 67
Front Street East
detailed
agenda - agendaOct202009.doc
- Event
Profiling Versus State Profiling, on z/OS
- Performance
Management in Virtualized Environments (IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, VMware ESX
specifics and similarities)
- The
Stork correlation Use & Abuse of Statistics in Performance &
Capacity Planning
- IBM
Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS V4R2
- IBM
System z Update
April
14 and 15, 2009 at Ces’t
What 67 Front Street East
detailed
agenda - agendaApr14152009.doc or agendaApr14152009.pdf
- ESCON,
FICON and Mainframe Performance ppt file
- Multi-Core
Computing and the Tiered Storage Model
pdf file
- Automating
Batch and Saving Money pdf file 4.8 MB
- Building
a Dynamic Infrastructure –
Trends
and Directions for System z presentation is on Jim's website
- Linux
on System z - A Strategic View presentation is on Jim's website
- CMG
Canada Members’ Networking Session – all
invited
- Software
Blades
- Using
TeamQuest Model in an Oracle 10G RAC Environment zipped pdf file 7 MB
- Business
Transaction Management –
The
Next Generation of IT Performance Management
ppt file
§
Performance
Testing vs. Performance Monitoring ppt file
October
21, 2008 at Ces’t What 67 Front Street East
- Performance
Analysis of WAN based application delivery networks pdf file 7 MB
- Real
Application Testing - with Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition. pdf file
- Trending
or Modeling for z/OS Systems - One, the Other, or Both? Word doc
- Predictive
Analysis in a Multi-Tier environment using Modeling. ppt presentation
- Open
Forum – Questions and Answers
April
15 / 16, 2008 at Ces’t What 67 Front Street East
detailed agenda.doc or detailed agenda.pdf
- Z10 pdf file 2MB
- Besides
The Processor... pdf file 1MB
- Regulatory
Compliance and the IBM Mainframe: Key Requirements pdf file
- Adjusting
RMPTTOM to Reduce SRM Overhead ppt presentation or pdf file
- On
the Importance of I/O Parallelism and I/O Priority structures in z/OS
Environments.
CMG
Canada Members’ Networking Session
- Seeing
it All at Once with Barry pdf file 4MB
- THE
MINIMUM DAILY ADULT The Right Metrics and the Wrong Metrics pdf file
- Solaris
Virtualization
- Open
Performance Security Architecture Past and Future
- Don's
Diatribe VII pdf file
March
18, 2008 at Ces’t What 67 Front Street East
detailed agenda Mar182008.doc welcome letter
Secure
Network Access: Real-time measurement
of users compliance to policy
Network
Application Monitoring
Oct.
30,2007 at Ces’t What 67 Front
Street East
seminar
focused on Z series topics:
"zIIPs
and zAAPs - Understanding Transaction Flows and CPU Measurements"
Peter Enrico
of Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc
"Introduction
to Websphere MQ Performance"
Peter
Enrico of Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc
“Mainframe
relevant features of the DASD subsystem”
Tony
Mungal of EMC
We will also have a Q&A session.
April
24 and 25, 2007 at Ces’t What 67 Front Street East
Using
Statistical Techniques to Interpret Service and Resource Metrics.
This
paper received the J. William Mullen award at the 2006 CMG Conference in Reno,
Nevada.
Frank Berezney - Kaiser Permanente
Framework
for doing Capacity Sizing for IBM System z9 and zSeries Processors
Oracle
Performance and Capacity Considerations
Dealing
with Oracle Database performance issues: The Magic is in the Details
Storage
Performance: What Really Matters
The New
Bottlenecks in Mainframe I/O
Application
acceleration over the WAN how to make 3000KMs feel like 30 meters
Steven Flowers – Riverbed Technology
Don Melton – Vatic
Technologies
Tuesday
Feb 20th, 2007 at 89
Chestnut Residence (U of T residence + meeting space)
89
Chestnut St. (next to City Hall, near Dundas Subway Stn.)
09:05
AM Oracle Real Application Clusters
Oleksiy
Razborshchuk –
Oracle Corporation
10:40
AM Optimizing Your Oracle Investment
Tuesday Nov 14th,
2006 at 89 Chestnut Residence (U of T
residence + meeting space)
agendaNov142006A.doc 89
Chestnut St. (next to City Hall, near Dundas Subway Stn.)
CSP 101: From Monoliths to Dinosaurs and Beyond
Planning
for the public Internet
Martin
Timusk - Timusk.com Inc.
SOA
Monitoring & Performance Management Challenges
April
18 and 19, 2006 at 89 Chestnut Residence (U of T residence
+ meeting space)
89
Chestnut St. (next to City Hall, near Dundas Subway Stn.)
09:05
AM IT Issues That Still Keep Me Awake pdf
Don Melton – Vatic Technologies
10:45
AM Data Centre Consolidation
12:00
PM Sponsored
by Shunra (www.shunra.com )
(CMG rules
suspended for this session, lunch is included)
01:30
PM Application
Performance Monitoring – One Approach
ppt
02:15
PM Implementing a Monitoring Approach ppt
03:30
PM Balancing
Batch workloads and CPU activity in a parallel sysplex environment ppt
09:05
AM What’s
ITIL Got to do with it?
10:45
AM How
Do TCP Profile Parameters Impact Performance?” pdf
Nalini Elkins – Inside Products
01:30 PM Business Resilience Means Direction, Exchange, Evolution
03:15
PM Performance Improvements “Things I Wish They’d Told Me 8
years Ago” – Visualized
Thomas A. Halinski
- Compuware PPT
February
21, 2006 at 89 Chestnut Residence (U of T
residence + meeting space)
89
Chestnut St. (next to City Hall, near Dundas Subway Stn.)
09:05
AM Java Performance and Websphere ppt
10:45
AM Mainframe Specialty Engines pdf
12:00
PM Sponsored
by Compuware
(CMG rules
suspended for this session, lunch is included)
01:30
PM Defending the End User – Protecting your
home, your employees, and yourself from emerging threats.
Kellman Meghu – Checkpoint pdf
Tuesday
Oct 18th, 2005 agendaOct182005.doc
09:05
AM A Paradigm Shift in Computational Scaling
10:50
AM The future of virtualization
01:45
PM Introduction to Throughput Computing and Solaris 10
Russell Crooke – Sun Microsystems
03:30
PM Intel on Microprocessor
Technology Trends
April
19 and 20, 2005: at 89 Chestnut Residence (U of T residence + meeting space)
89
Chestnut St. (next to City Hall, near Dundas Subway Stn.)
Agenda
This two day seminar included 10
presentations. CA Canada sponsored this event.
This seminar is being
sponsored in part by 
09:05
AM How TCP Impacts Application
Performance
Glenn
Davies - Network General
10:25
AM VoIP - Getting the Benefits, Without Sacrificing Security
Kellman Meghu – Check Point Canada
01:00
PM Introduction to Throughput Computing and Solaris 10
Dan Marshall – Sun Microsystems
02:25
PM Jump Start your Performance Career Using Analytic Modeling
03:35
PM Predictive
Performance - An Introduction to Modeling
Dan
A. Worsick – Bank of Montreal
09:05
AM CRYPTO 101: An
Overview of Cryptography For the Beginner
10:25
AM Using
the IBM Mainframe Cryptogrphic Engines
01:00
PM DB2 Application Performance in the 21st
Century
Craig Hodgins – Compuware Corporation
02:10
PM The financial cost of capacity
planning: The impact of the new architectures.
03:30
PM Mainframe Continuity
Planning pdf
Reginald Harbeck – Computer Associates
February 22, 2005: at 89 Chestnut
Residence (U of T residence + meeting space)
89
Chestnut St. (next to City Hall, near Dundas Subway Stn.)
Feb 22 agenda This half day seminar focused on
virtual server architecture.
09:05
AM Virtual Infrastructure
10:45
AM VMware Server Consolidation
January 25, 2005:
at 89 Chestnut Residence (U of T residence + meeting space)
89
Chestnut St. (next to City Hall, near Dundas Subway Stn.)
CMGagendaJan252005a.doc welcome letter
This
seminar was sponsored in part by 
who
hosted a vendor specific session.
09:05
AM On
the Importance of Infrastructure and Architecture in Storage Subsystems
Anthony
G. Mungal – EMC Corporation
10:40
AM Applications
and the infrastructure that support them
01:00
PM Infrastructure
Architecture: Who, What, Why, When and How
Don Melton – Vatic Technologies
02:30
PM Compuware
Vendor Session
April
20/21, 2004 at 89 Chestnut
Residence (U of T residence + meeting space)
89
Chestnut St. (next to City Hall, near Dundas Subway Stn.)
09:05
AM Crossing the Bridge between
Development and Quality Assurance
Christopher
Strand - Compuware Corporation
10:35
AM Measuring
Virtual Tape Performance
01:25
PM A Production
Volume Test of a Large zOS WebSphere Application
Ken
Beauchamp - RBC Royal Bank
09:05
AM IRD (Intelligent Resource Director)
01:25
PM Measuring
Portal Usage
Robert Haddad – Project Performance Corporation
02:55
PM Understanding
Clustering Technologies
February
17, 2004 at 89 Chestnut Residence (U of T residence + meeting space)
89
Chestnut St. (next to City Hall, near Dundas Subway Stn.)
Zen and the Art of
Application Performance
Modeling
Multi-Tiered Applications
PPT
November
18, 2003 at Regus Group
in Canada Trust Tower 27th
floor
09:05
AM Elements of I/O Subsystem
Benchmarking
10:35
AM Effectively Managing Today's Storage
11:50
AM Storage
Topics Free-for-All
April
22 & 23, 2003 at SAS Canada Inc. BCE Place 181 Bay Street, Suite 2220
Detailed agenda and
Welcome letter
09:10
AM On the performance considerations of
Bursty Workloads
10:40
AM Large Scale
Processor Reference (LSPR) and performance concerns
01:30
PM Web
Server Mettle Test
Robert Miller – Sun Microsystems
09:05
AM End
User Response Time Monitoring Importance
10:35
AM Workload Characterization and Load
Testing of Web-based Systems
Diwakar
Krishnamurthy – Carleton University
01:30
PM Measuring
Portal Usage
Robert Haddad – Project Performance Corporation
03:00
PM Bridging
the Gap Between IT and Project Management
Cory
Ainger – Ainger & Associates
04:15
PM Panel
- Current Topics
February
18th 2003 at SAS Canada Inc. BCE Place 181 Bay Street, Suite 2220
Robert
Haddad – Project Performance Corporation
November
14th, 2002 at IBM Auditorium 3600 Steeles Ave. East Markham, Ontario
Welcome Letter and Detailed Agenda
Storage
and Workload Manager topics
· Storage
Strategy for the New Millennium ( ppt file - 3.7 MB)
Kevin
Mann and Straty Demakos – STK
·
Switched
Storage Architecture Benefits & Storage Management Open Framework ppt 2.7 MB
· WLM
& Database Management –
DB2 & Oracle (pdf file - 137KB)
· Workload
Manager: Goal Mode Quickly!!! –
A User Experience (ppt file - 439 KB)
April
23/24, 2002 at SAS Canada Inc. BCE Place 181 Bay Street, Suite 2220
Avoiding
the Next Generation Internet Bottleneck
Quality Control of Large-Scale Web-Based Applications in Real-Time
Kenneth
J. Harper - eBusiness 1, Inc.
Hayden Coomber – Mercury Interactive
Workload Manager Goal Mode
for the Trailing Edge pdf
New with WLM: IRD and zSeries pdf
Implementing Tivoli Decision
Support for Performance Reporting and Capacity Planning ppt
Jonathan Gladstone – Bank of Montreal
Performance and Capacity Experiences with
Websphere. ppt
Cliff
Johnson and Stan Dylnicki – Royal Bank
February
19, 2002 at SAS Canada Inc. BCE Place 181 Bay Street, Suite 2220
Distributed
Application Performance Troubleshooting: A Guaranteed Approach
November
6, 2001 at SAS Canada Inc. BCE Place 181 Bay Street, Suite 2220
-
Detailed AgendaNov062001.doc / Welcome Letter
09:10
AM Large
Capacity Actuator Considerations
Anthony Mungal – EMC
Corporation
10:45
AM An introduction to SAN Capacity Planning
April
17-18th, 2001
at SAS
Canada Inc. BCE Place 181 Bay Street, Suite 2220
Tuesday,
April 17 (There will be a reception after the
presentations.)
-
Pierre Fiorini, BMC Software
-
Steve Shaw, Hewlett Packard (Canada)
-
Joseph Belsanti, Hewlet Packard (Canada)
-
Ted MacNeil, Bank of Nova Scotia
-
Darrell P. Faulkner, Computer Associates
March
6th, 2001 at SAS Canada Inc. BCE Place 181 Bay Street, Suite 2220
Performance
characteristics of Windows operating systems
Insights
into WWW Server Performance using Busy-Period Analysis
November
7th, 2000 at SAS Canada Inc. BCE Place 181 Bay Street, Suite 2220
Detailed
agenda / Welcome
letter
Data
Protection solutions that support customer's " Always on" demands
Storage
Networks-Promises and Pitfalls
April
18, 2000 at Board of Trade (Downtown) - The
Rideout Room
1
First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario
08:30
AM Continental Breakfast
09:00
AM President's Welcome - Anthony G. Mungal
09:15
AM A Customer compares Virtual Tape Solutions
Dan
Ledgerwood – Royal Bank of Canada
11:00
AM S/390 Resource
Utilization: Signs of the Time
Jane
Sedgwick – Compuware Corporation
12:15
PM Lunch (make your own arrangements)
01:30
PM Managing 2000+ Windows/NT servers in a WAN/LAN
environment
Stan
Dylnicki – Royal Bank of Canada
February
22, 2000 at Board of Trade (Downtown) - The
Rideout Room
1
First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario
Understanding
your web server's Misbehaviour
Nick
Welke - Capacity & Performance Specialist, SAS Institute (Canada)
Workload
Manager (WLM) in Goal Mode - User Experiences
Ted
MacNeil - The Bank of Nova Scotia
Architecting
Computer Capacity Analysis as a Client/Server Application
[
... the shoemaker's children kick back ... ]
Don
Melton - Vatic Technologies
April
13-14th 1999 at Board of Trade
(Downtown) - The Rideout Room
1
First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario
Nick
Welke - Systems Engineer, SAS Institute (Canada) Inc.
IBM
S/390 Workload Manager - User Experiences
Al
Marshall - Royal & Sunalliance Insurance of Canada
I/O
Concurrency, I/O Bandwidth, Access Density and the Like
Anthony
G. Mungal - Consulting Systems Engineer, EMC Corporation
Affecting
Customer Workloads when "fast" becomes "faster" - Symmetrix
version 4.8 Enhancements
Miller
Dixon - Corporate Systems Engineer, EMC Corporation
An
Overview of the Microsoft Strategy & Windows DNA
Jeff
Dool - Technology Specialist, Microsoft Canada Co.
Architecting
the Future: IA-64 Technology Overview
Steven
J. Shaw - Enterprise Systems Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard
ERP
(SAP, BAAN, Oracle, Peoplesoft etc.) on S/390
Sun
Server Architecture (Hardware and Software) and Vision for Future Large Scale
Computing
Russell
Crook - Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
OS/390
V2R7 Update and R8 Preview
PANEL:
The Changing faces of Performance, Capacity Planning and related Issues in a
Web
Panelists:
(5) to be finalized from above slate of speakers and selected invited
guests, as well as current CMG Canada members.
April
14-15th 1998 at Board of Trade
(Downtown) - The Rideout Room
1
First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario
09:15
AM Achieving Control via
Service Level Management in Distributed Environments
Lindsay
Parker - Hewlett Packard
11:00
AM And You Think You Have A Stressful Environment! (Stress Testing Distributed
Systems)
George
W. Dodson - Candle Corporation
01:15
PM CMG Update - Changing & Refocusing
George
Dodson - Past President of CMG, and
A.A.
Michelson Award Winner 1997
01:45
PM Computing using OS/390 - Domino, SAP R/3, Web
Enablement
03:45
PM PANEL: Computing Strategies - Today & Beyond
Panelists:
from current speaker roster and special guests
09:05
AM A Comparison of Remote Copy Approaches: SRDF and
PPRC Performance Testing
Anthony
G. Mungal & Rene Daoust - EMC Corporation
10:30
AM Short Topic: Understanding the Impact of ESCON
Protocol Times
11:00
AM Performance Tuning of Intranet/DB2 Applications
Erich
Bretholz, Ph.D. - Consultant
01:15
PM Java Technology Computing - Present and Future
Russell
Crook - Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
03:00
PM Open Systems Storage Management: Evolution of Technology - Tape, Disk and LAN
Mark
Lewis - Storage Technology Corporation
November
18th 1997 at The Corporate Seminar Centre
130
Adelaide St. West, 35th Floor, Toronto, Ontario
09:30
AM Oracle
Performance Tuning for UNIX and Windows NT
Terry
Lewis - TMHR Consulting Inc.
10:45
AM Performance and
Capacity Management in Complex Multi-tier Client/Server
Environments (SAP, PeopleSoft, Baan)
Glynn
B. Giacone - BGS Systems
01:30
PM Panel Discussion
- Shaping Technologies
Panelists:
Anthony Mungal, George Warren, Terry Lewis,
Glynn
B. Giacone & 2 other panelists being finalized
03:15
PM A Comparison of
Remote Copy Approaches: SRDF and PPRC Performance Testing
Anthony
G. Mungal & Rene Daoust - EMC Corporation
April
15-16th 1997 at Board of Trade
(Downtown) - The Rideout Room
1
First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario
09:15
AM Enterprise Storage and the New Information Reality
Barbara
Robidoux - EMC Corporation
10:45
AM SAP R/3 in a UNIX Environment: A Case Study for
Client/Server Capacity Planning
Glynn
B. Giacone - BGS Systems
01:15
PM Strategic Directions and Goals of CMG
T.
Leo Lo - Vice President of CMG
01:30
PM Are You Ready for Tomorrow Today? Understanding
Enterprise Network Transmission Techniques
T.
Leo Lo - IBM Global Services & Vice President of CMG
02:45
PM Technologies for Distributed Transactions
Graham
Flint - Microsoft Canada
03:45
PM Open Enterprise Performance - Response Time
Challenge
Catherine
H. Liu - Applied Expert Systems, Inc.
09:15
AM Batch Workload Management in a S/390 Parallel
Sysplex
Murray
L. Martin - MVS Solutions Inc.
10:45
AM The Evolution of Workload Performance Management in
MVS
Stephen
L. Samson - Candle Corporation
01:15
PM Preparing for Virtual Storage Management and Virtual
Tape
Bill
Gray - StorageTek Canada Inc.
02:45
PM Java and Network Computing
Matthew
Toal - Sun Microsystems of Canada.
03:45
PM Performance Management within a UNIX/OPEN Systems
Environment
Lindsay
Parker - Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd.
09:15
AM Capacity Planning Experiences at the Royal Bank -
CMOS, Parallel Sysplex
Simon
Cheung - Royal Bank of Canada
Tim
Michalski - EMC Corporation
01:30
PM RAID: Past, Present, and Future
Brett
A. Quinn - EMC Corporation
03:15
PM "Virtual Tape Subsystem"