Heart of Texas DB2 User Group
First Quarterly Meeting
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
8:30 AM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Teachers Retirement System
1000 Red River St., Room 110 West
Austin, TX
Breakfast & Lunch Sponsor: Compuware Corporation
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM – 9:05 AM
Kick off and Announcements
9:05 AM – 10:20 AM
DB2 for z/OS Performance and Tuning
Mike Wingfield, Compuware
10:20 – 10:35 AM
Break
10:35 – 11:50 PM
Common Performance Tuning Opportunities
Andrew Jepeal, Compuware
11:50 – 12:50 PM
Lunch Provided
Turning Business Strategies into IT Realities
Claire Bailey, Compuware
Mike Zinda, Compuware
12:50 - 1:00 PM
Raffle & Closing
** Directions to TRS *
Teachers Retirement System is located in downtown Austin at:
1000 Red River St. Austin, TX
TRS occupies the block between 10th & 11th Streets and Red River & Trinity. Red River
is 1 block west of I-35. If you are coming from I-35, take 11th Street Exit, go west on
11th. There are two connected buildings. Room 110 west is on the ground floor of the
West building. There is a visitor parking close to 11th and Trinity.
Presentation Overviews
DB2 for z/OS Performance and Tuning
Mainframe Application Performance Management has become even more imperative
today with processor speeds approaching the theoretical limit of 7 GHZ. So just throwing
hardware at performance problems is not enough anymore. Application response times
and runtimes need to be tuned to run as efficiently as possible and often times when DB2
is a big player in the application, that is where most of the performance opportunities will
be found. We will look at several DB2 tuning opportunities in CICS, Batch, and DDF;
analyzing the SQL Text, the DB2 Access Paths, and the DB2 Catalog Objects involved.
Common Performance Tuning Opportunities
Andrew has worked with numerous companies across various industries to help them
achieve their Application Performance Management objects. While every company is
different, there are certain performance improvement opportunities that are consistently
seen. Andrew will discuss some of the more common opportunities he has encountered
and provide guidance on what to look for and how to resolve the issue.
Turning Business Strategies into IT Realities
With ever evolving business initiatives and strategies established executives, the ability to
translate strategy into reality and effectively communicate the benefits and successes can
be a challenge. How do you ensure that your mainframe technology platform is meeting
this challenge to be more cost effective, secure and protect the critical information that is
essential in todays on demand technology world? By optimizing the application life
cycle with keen focus on development, testing and performance, Compuware Mainframe
Solutions help organizations ensure the effective delivery of secure, high performing
solutions. With the optimization of resources, utilization of Compuware's integrated
tools can shorten development and test cycles, facilitate training new resources and speed
troubleshooting which improves quality of service. By meeting business requirements,
organizations can achieve service level goals and increase customer satisfaction. This
lays the foundation for entities to realize reductions in operational costs, CPU usage,
service level penalties and provides the ability to leverage current assets.
Whether it is maximizing assets, reducing processor workload, continual testing for
defects or ensuring test data privacy, this session will provide a discussion on strategy
alignment and producing key metrics and measurements that will showcase examples of
strategy alignment utilizing the Compuware platform along with a roadmap to the future.
Speakers
Mike Wingfield
Mike has been in IT for over 35 years and has been working with DB2 since Version 1.1
in 1987 as a programmer, DBA, Tech Support, Data Modeler, Data Architect, and for the
last 20 years as a DB2 Performance and Tuning Specialist. Mike has been utilizing
Strobe since 1991 and has documented mainframe operating cost savings of over 50
million dollars using Strobe from 1994 through 2001. Mike retired from U S WEST
(which became Qwest Communications and now Century Link) after 30 years of service.
As a Strobe Solution Consultant for the last 10 years in Compuware’s Field Technical
Support, Mike takes part in Application Performance Assessments for many Strobe
customers throughout North & South America, Asia/Pacific, and Europe analyzing
Batch, On lines, Stored Procedures, and DDF performance with Strobe and iStrobe and
providing recommendations for runtime and response time improvements.
Andrew Jepeal
Andrew Jepeal has over 30 years of experience in Mainframe Information Technology. A
large part of Andrew’s career was spent as an MVS Systems Programmer with an
emphasis on Performance Management and Capacity Planning. Just prior to joining the
Compuware team, Andrew provided technical leadership to the MVS Systems
Programming team for a major US retailer.
Andrew has been a part of the Compuware team for over 15 years. During this time, he
has held various positions, primarily related to Compuware’s Application Performance
Management products. He has worked with many companies across various industries to
help them achieve their mainframe APM objective and maximize their results.
Claire Bailey
Claire is the former director of the Arkansas Department of Information Systems (DIS)
and Arkansas chief technology officer (CTO), and led more than 250 information
technology (IT) professionals responsible for the state data center, applications hosting,
system integration, network and telecommunications services supporting Arkansas’s
public services.
As CTO, Ms. Bailey was the appointed chairperson for the Arkansas State Technology
Council and served on the board of directors for the Information Network of Arkansas
(INA). In that role, she provided guidance and strategic direction in the development of
Arkansas.gov, the state’s official Web site, managed by INA. In 2011, Arkansas.gov was
named “Best of Web” among government Web sites in the Center for Digital
Government’s national “Best of the Web” competition. Government Technology
magazine selected her as one of the top 25 “Doers, Dreamers & Drivers in Public Sector
Innovation” for 2011.
Joining Compuware in October 2014, Ms. Bailey is the Director of Federal, State and
Local Mainframe Solutions and concentrates on advancing Public Sector opportunities in
mainframe technologies to maximize investments and improve the delivery of public
services for federal, state and local solutions.