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IBM Mainframe Capacity and Performance Management

Capacitas Training Centre,
London, United Kingdom.
3 Days

Learn how to:

  • Characterise Common Workloads
  • Understand which SMF/RMF records to analyse
  • Collect SMF/RMF records
  • Apply capture ratios
  • Capacity Plan LPARs within a system
  • Translate Business SLA's into WLM Definitions
  • Set Response Time and Velocity Goals
  • Configure your system to perform well
  • Deal with Typical Performance Issues

Course Agenda

Day 1
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 10:00 Introduction
  • History of IBM Mainframe Systems
  • Comparison to other Operating Systems
10:00 - 11:00 Resources
  • Physical Resources
  • Logical Resources
11:00 - 11:15 Morning Break
11:15 - 12:00 Standard Workloads
  • Batch
  • Started Tasks
  • TSO
  • Other Workloads
12:00 - 13:00 Virtualisation
  • Virtual Machine (VM)
  • Logical Partitions (LPARs)
  • Parallel Sysplex
13:00 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 14:45 Common Subsystems
  • CICS
  • DB2
14:45 - 15:00 Afternoon Break
15:00 - 16:30 Monitoring Overview
  • SMF
  • RMF
 
Day 2
09:30 - 11:00 SMF/RMF Record Types in Detail
  • Type 30
  • Type 70
  • Type 72
  • Type 110
  • Other record Types
  • Chargeback
11:00 - 11:15 Morning Break
11:15 - 13:00 Workload Manager (WLM)
  • History - SRM
  • What is Workload Manager?
  • Service Definition
13:00 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 14:45 Workload Manager (continued)
  • Response Time Goals
  • Velocity Goals
14:45 - 15:00 Afternoon Break
15:00 - 16:30 Performance Issues
  • Introduction to Performance Issues
  • Monitoring and Data Collection
  • Modelling
 
Day 3
9:30 - 11:00 Configuration and Tuning
  • Considering Workloads
  • Paging and Swapping
  • Avoiding I/O
  • Tuning
11:00 - 11:15 Morning Break
11:15 - 13:00 Case study I - Reducing Batch Elapsed Times
13:00 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 14:45 Case Study II - Using WLM to Meet all SLA's and run at 100% CPU Busy
14:45 - 15:00 Afternoon Break
15:00 - 16:30 Case Study III - Stress and Volume Testing on the IBM Mainframe

Course Brief

IBM mainframes and their clones have been supporting large organisations core business applications for over forty years. ICT Capacity Planning and Performance Management processes grew out of the need to get the most out of these systems.

This course explores the capacity planning and performance tuning techniques specific to IBM mainframe systems. It provides the insight required to ensure your applications meet required levels of service whilst minimising cost.

Course Prerequisites

Course Audience

  • IT Systems Planners
  • Performance Analysts
  • Technical Architects
  • Capacity Planners
  • Performance Managers
  • System Administrators
  • ICT Managers
  • Data Centre Managers
  • Helpdesk Analysts
  • System Testers

How Your Organisation Will Benefit

Attending this course you will learn:
  • The benefits of capacity planning IBM Mainframe systems
  • How to avoid costly hardware upgrades through effective capacity planning and performance tuning
  • How to ensure service level compliance through capacity and performance monitoring
  • How to enable business driven capacity planning by identifying the business drivers of common applications

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