Date: May 19, 1997
Location: Merrill Lynch, NYC
Please note: This meeting will take place in a different location
within the World Financial Center. The meeting will be in the
4th floor auditorium, NOT in the normal meeting room.
Here are the directions for locating the auditorium:
After crossing the bridge over the West Side Highway,
Bear LEFT
(SOUTH), and proceed to the Merrill
Lynch South Tower entrance. This is located on the opposite side
of the Winter Garden from our normal meeting place.
There will be access card turnstyles and
the guard-office. You will have to show your registration materials to
the guards to be admitted. They will give you visitor's badges;
please wear them throughout the day. Once through, proceed to the
elevators to the fourth floor. Follow the signs to the auditorium.
Welcome to our spring MVMUA. We have exciting sessions on
both core VM technology and open systems interoperability.
We're presenting a user experience session on converting to
VM/ESA Version 2 Release 2, and the latest in VM performance
information. We also have a session on Java, and Sir Arty
the Toolmaker presents on his latest experiences with new tools
for system management and networking. I look forward to seeing
you at the meeting!
Jeff Savit, President
9:00 AM - GAB - General Association Business
The MVMUA Board of Directors will report on MVMUA activities and
will entertain questions, suggestions, and comments from the
members.
9:30 AM - User experiences converting to VM/ESA Version 2 Release 2
The speaker describes experiences converting a large VM/ESA system
from VM/ESA Version 1 Release 2.1 to VM/ESA Version 2 Release 2.
Conversion issues, compatibility, and performance implications
(especially the new Minidisk Cache algorithms!) in a mixed CMS
and guest environment will be discussed.
Coffee Break: 10:30 to 10:40AM
10:40 AM - VM/ESA Performance Update
Come hear the latest on VM/ESA performance. The speaker will cover
key performance changes and measurements results for the newest release
of VM/ESA. Remember when Bill said "watch this space" on some items
when VM/ESA Version 2 first came out? Well, this session will reveal
what he was talking about. In addition, some of the other work from
the VM Performance Evaluation team will be discussed: OV/VM
measurements and master processor work.
1:00 PM - Intranet/Internet hodgepodge (and P/390 too!)
Arty tells us his latest adventures creating and using VM
Intranet/Internet, including LFS/ESA and LANRES for LAN access,
TCP/IP line drivers on RSCS and PVM (especially RSCS's new LPR and
LPD services), TCP/IP features like FAIX, DIG, NSLOOKUP, TRACERTE and
REXEC. He also discusses AIX Connections and Samba, Web-based
management of NT servers, Cisco routers and News servers. Arty also
discusses servers written in REXX that help manage portions of his
Intranet, and the RXSOCKETS now builtin to CMS 13 so everybody can
build REXX socket applications. For those that like to work from
home, Arty discusses dialup PPP services to Unix or NT RAS.
2:30 PM - An Introduction to Java
This session introduces the Java language and basic Java programming.
One of the most exciting (and hyped) developments in computing has
been the new Java language from Sun. Java is an object oriented
language that can be downloaded with a web page to execute on your
browser. Java makes it possible to deliver client-side web
applications that can do real time computation, graphics and network
applications. In addition to Java itself, the session will discuss
NetRexx and the possibility of running Java on VM.
COFFEE BREAK: 3:30 to 3:40
3:40 PM - VM/ESA Data in Memory Techniques
I went to buy a hammer the other day. I could not believe all the
choices: claw, rubber, ball-peen, sledge. The sales clerk said "If
you think this is bad, you should try choosing a VM data-in-memory
technique for performance.". This session will outline the weak points
and strong points of various DIM techniques available on VM/ESA so
that you can pick the right tool for the right job. Techniques
included are: minidisk cache, CMS file cache, saved segments, virtual
disk in storage, and VM data spaces.
4:45 PM - Problem Roundtable
The roundtable offers a forum for members to ask questions and bring
up problems pertaining to VM. Answers are often forthcoming from
other members or the IBM MVMUA representatives.
Speaker Addresses:
World Financial Center, South Tower
Chaired by: Jeff Savit (MLP)
Speaker: Phil Tully, Merrill Lynch
Speaker: Bill Bitner, IBM Endicott
Speaker: Arty Ecock, City University of New York
Speaker: Jeff Savit, Merrill Lynch
Speaker: Bill Bitner, IBM Endicott
Chaired by: Martha McConaghy, Marist College
Bill Bitner
IBM Endicott
bitner@gdlvm7.vnet.ibm.com
Arty Ecock
City University of New York
eckcu@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Phil Tully
Merrill Lynch
Philip_Tully@pcmailgw.ml.com