Table of Contents

• UNIX Capacity Planning: Hints and TipsJulius P. Bleker. 1-7
• Attention Client/Server Users - HELP IS ON THE WAY!Ruth V. Heidel, George W. Dodson. 8-15
• Batch Tuning Experiences: Things That Go Bump in the NightJohn P. Shuman. 16-24
• A Graphical Paradigm for the Design and Analysis of Distributed SystemsH. Pat Artis. 25-32
• Resource Management 101: An Introduction to Capacity Planning & Performance Analysis For The New WorldJerry L. Rosenberg. 33-39
• How to Evaluate the DealRobert J. Kenny, Thomas E. Bell, Frank M. Bereznay. 40-49
• Designing and Managing Gigabit LANSRobert S. Yori. 50-55
• Benchmarking a Client/ServerJack K. Gunther. 56-62
• Backward Error Recovery in Redundant Disk ArraysWilliam V. Courtright II, Garth A. Gibson. 63-74
• SPLAT Based LAN DesignRichard Hammond. 75-84
• Applying Expert System Technology to Enhance Sort PerformancePeter Liu. 85-91
• How Not to Upgrade Your Large MainframeJeffry A. Schwartz. 92-102
• Introduction to Performance Management: What to Measure, What to ReportStephen L. Samson. 103-107
• LAN Systems Management Tool Selection FrameworkRichard H. Stephan. 108-116
• Lease or Purchase, What s It All About?Bob Chaney Jr.. 117-123
• AS/400 Performance Management for the MVS VeteranRandal J. Miller. 124-135
• Capacity Management for Client/Server Architectures: Techniques and Systems Management IssuesBernard Domanski. 136-144
• The Performance of Write-only DASD WorkloadsWilliam R. Fairchild, Paul Andersen. 145-153
• Real World Client/Server SizingGlynn B. Giacone. 154-164
• A Methodology for Assessing Capacity Needs in an Intelligent Workstation/Local Area Network (IWS/LAN) EnvironmentMark D. Nyman. 165-176
• Application Performance: An Improvement Exercise of the Third KindMichael P. Mark. 177-186
• Workload Manager from IBM - A Practical ViewDebora G. Reinert. 187-193
• MVS and UNIX Database Performance Comparison Based on Industry Standard TPC-D BenchmarkT.-S. Liu. 194-205
• How Expert is Your Expert System for Performance Management?Joseph L. Hellerstein. 206-215
• Tape Performance ComparisonsRobert C. Naegler Jr.. 216-223
• RAID Performance: Beyond BerkeleyAnil K. Sahai. 224-234
• IBM Software Licensing Charges - A New EraSteven R. Dodge. 235-245
• Should You Drive a Used Car on the Information Superhighway?James R. Cook. 246-252
• Capacity Planning in a High-Growth OrganizationGreg L. Wilson. 253-260
• RAID - Making Data More Available and Improving Performance of Secondary StorageAnnette M. Hagood. 261-272
• Performance Analysis of an Interactive Oracle-Based UNIX System - A Case StudyTim Foxon. 273-279
• Executing MXG and Other SAS Applications Under OS/2, Windows, and UNIXBarry Merrill. 280-289
• Performance Management of Client/Server Systems (Open & Proprietary)Adam Grummitt. 290-299
• Quick Bottleneck Prediction for Modeling and System PerformanceSteven A. Johnson, Doug Child. 300-308
• Architecture and Performance of S/390 Parallel Transaction ServersJeffrey P. Buzen, Annie W. Shum. 309-316
• MVS Overhead - How to Reduce What You Can t MeasureMichael R. Le Voi. 317-327
• Modelling: A Do-It-Yourself ApproachTim Follen. 328-336
• Configuration Management in Enterprise Wide Systems ManagementMark M. Maccabee, Seraphin B. Calo. 337-348
• Plumbing VM/ESA Monitor DataRobert L. Guenther. 349-356
• Shoes for the Cobbler s Children: The Rightsizing of Performance and Capacity ManagementG. Jay Lipovich, Bob Gauthier, Barry Pieper. 357-365
• Integrating Legacy Systems With Client/Server TechnologyDavid S. Willsey, David Willsey, Larry Kuekes. 366-371
• Divide and Conquer - And Get More Out of DB2 With LessBjarne Nelson. 372-383
• 1993 CMG Fellowship Winner-Implementation Tradeoffs in Providing Shared MemoryKirk Johnson. 384-392
• A Study of Cached RAID5 I/OAlexandre Brandwajn, David E. Levy. 393-404
• Massively Parallel Processing: Performance Management ChallengeBoris E. Zibitsker. 405-413
• Continuous System Measurement: Self-Referential Analysis for Insight into Your Computing EnvironmentIrwin F. Kraus, Gene M. Leganza. 414-419
• WAN Infrastructure and Its Performance Management ConcernsTachen Leo Lo. 420-428
• Capacity Planning: How to Predict the UnknownLeonard W. Gunderson. 429-435
• ESCON Performance Over XDF DistancesRichard W. Brandenstein. 436-442
• A Hierarchy of Production System Models and FactorsArmin Roeseler, Anneliese Amschler Andrews. 443-452
• On Some Performance Aspects of the Client/Server Computing ParadigmNirdosh Bhatnagar. 453-461
• Creating, Maintaining or Transferring Service LevelsMargaret R. Greenberg. 462-467
• Monitoring Availability With Transaction Arrival DataEugene Quinn. 468-474
• The Performance of ORACLE Financials on Various SPARCserver ConfigurationsAdrian N. Cockcroft, Allan N. Packer. 475-482
• Windows Client Performance AgentsMichael R. Stadelmann. 483-489
• DASD Performance in a Multisystem EnvironmentThomas Beretvas. 490-501
• Capacity Planning in the Interoperable EnterpriseMichael A. Salsburg. 502-512
• The Structure of a DOS Formatted DiskJohn P. Pilch. 513-520
• Distributed Systems Data Management Needs and ExperienceDavid A. Lash. 521-527
• SPE Evaluation of a Client/Server ApplicationConnie U. Smith, Bernie Wong. 528-540
• Applying Service Level Management to the EnterpriseWayne S. Morris. 541-548
• Getting the Most from Management Metrics in a Distributed Computing EnvironmentDouglas McBride. 549-553
• Capacity Planning for Personal ComputersWilliam Huebsch, Nagendra Rao. 554-561
• Performance Analysis and Modeling of a UNIX Operating System Based Operations Support SystemBrian L. Farrell, Stephen J. Goett. 562-568
• Two-Level Performance Models of Client/Server SystemsDaniel A. Menascé, Virgílio A. F. Almeida. 569-576
• Analysis of Data Access Methods in a Distributed Computing SystemElias Drakopoulos. 577-588
• Understanding the Performance of Tape Library Storage SystemsDiana Lubow. 589-595
• Multiple Servers in MP and S/390 Parallel SysplexRay Wicks. 596-607
• The Three C s to Improving UNIX System SecurityDouglas H. Marden. 608-619
• Alarm Based vs. Historical Trending Performance Management or Really Large UNIX Installation Performance ManagementMario F. Jauvin. 620-626
• Using the CP Monitor to Track Application Performance in VM/ESAMartin A. Zimelis. 627-634
• A Survey of MVS Cache Locality by Data Pool: The Multiple Workload Approach RevisitedBruce McNutt. 635-643
• LAN Interconnection Devices and Their PerformanceAnkur R. Hajare. 644-653
• Capacity Planning for S/390 Parallel SysplexPage T. Borchetta, Gary King. 654-661
• Optimizing the Configuration of a Building-Block Database Processor SystemHaruo Hayami, Junro Nose. 662-671
• Benchmarking the File Server Performance and CapacityTachen Leo Lo. 673-680
• Comparing IT Accounting ProductsJames R. Cook. 681-692
• Rightsizing: It Isn t a Technology Decision AnymoreRick Lebsack, Dave Winkelmann. 693-701
• Performance Methodologies in the Design of Distributed Software SystemsKhalid M. Khalil, Dennis S. Mok. 702-711
• CPU Comparison: The Economy VersionHall Skaara. 712-716
• Using The Windows NT Optimization ToolsArnold O. Allen. 717-723
• Making it Easier to Find Anomalies in Performance Data: Non-Traditional Functions for Exception TestsRobert Chu, Susan Tideman. 724-731
• The Answer is Still 42 but What s the Question? The Paradox of Open Systems BenchmarksNeil J. Gunther. 732-738
• Disk Scheduling in LinuxRobert Geist, James Westall. 739-746
• The Performance of Parity-Array Disk StorageAare Onton, Kevin F. Smith. 747-758
• Workload CharacterizationThomas Beretvas. 759-770
• On-Line Subsystems and Data Sharing in an MVS Version 5.1 EnvironmentAllen C. Jaques. 771-775
• Evaluating High-Performance Second-Generation Serial InterfacesPallavi Gholkar Homan, Mike Wiebel. 776-784
• Performance Analysis of a WAN-based Client/Server ApplicationJim Rosborough. 785-795
• UNIX Metrics: Is the Data in Open Systems the Same from Platform to Platform?Robert H. Johnson. 796-807
• Configuring a DCE Cell for PerformanceJaqueline A. Lynch. 808-811
• Integrating UNIX Systems into a Resource Management RepositoryJoseph F. Quinn. 812-822
• Achieving Poor Performance In Client/Server SystemsThomas E. Bell. 823-832
• Tuning Principles for a Large Distributed Backup/Restore FacilityCheryl A. Montgomery, Monu Pradhan-Advani. 833-844
• Forecasting Accuracy - A Disciplined AnalysisRob L. Johnson. 845-856
• Integrating UNIX Measurement Reporting into an Existing Automated Reporting System in a Windows EnvironmentJim Simmons, Cori Clements. 857-867
• Actuator Load Distributions and Capacity PlanningJoseph B. Major. 868-879
• Applying Genetic Algorithms to Extract Workload ClassesChrisila C. Pettey, Thomas D. Wagner, Lawrence W. Dowdy. 880-887
• Cached DASD Performance and Tuning Under OS/2 Version 2.XMark B. Friedman, Frank V. Castellucci. 888-894
• Evaluating Network Capacity Using a Simulation ModelDaniel T. Wick, Ankur R. Hajare. 895-904
• Using SAS to Assist in Operating System and Network Analysis in the UNIX EnvironmentLeroy Washington, Trisha D. Melrose. 905-913
• Performance Implications of Paging on a Distributed Open SystemDipto Chakravarty, Stephen Cheng. 914-921
• What s Not Free About DB2 FreespaceEdward A. Woods. 922-928
• MVS 5.1 and the Parallel Sysplex - Why, What, and Measurement ConsiderationsTimothy J. Hofmann. 929-938
• Mainframe & Distributed Remote Vaulting ExperiencesNancy H. Tillberg. 939-946
• Windows Tuning: It s Just Like Mainframes, Only SmallerHerbert A. Chong. 947-955
• A Political Guide to Open Systems: Interoperating with a Different Type of NetworkBarry S. Weinstein. 956-963
• Getting Started in Performance Tuning and Capacity PlanningNeil Ervin. 964-969
• A Practical Approach for Estimating True I/O ContentionCharles A. Milligan, David L. Peterson. 970-981
• The Many Faces of UNIX - Performance Analysis PerspectiveYefim Somin, Philip H. Mason. 982-991
• An Evolution in Business Recovery: The Migration to ABARSMichael L. Puldy. 992-1000
• Planning for Data Center ConsolidationsAdam O. Warkow. 1001-1004
• Distributed Backup and Restore PerformanceStuart R. Goodgold. 1005-1016
• Workload Management in MVS/ESA System Product Version 5George Alan Esworthy. 1017-1028
• Predicting Program Paging Behavior: a Case Study on AIXThad Jennings, David C. LeGrys. 1029-1040
• Information System Performance Evaluation Using Remote Terminal Emulation TechnologyDonald W. Hard, Timothy S. O Connor. 1041-1050
• Simulating Response Times EfficientlyDarcy M. Palmer, Thomas E. Hajostek. 1051-1060
• Impact of VSAM CI SIZE on DASD Space and Write Activity for SMFBarry Merrill. 1061-1075
• Some Experience of Migrating DB2 to ORACLERayne Chen, David Witkowski. 1076-1082
• Models Models Everywhere: Zeroing In On CAIDS and RAIDSBen Duhl. 1083-1086
• The Anatomy of a DASD I/O BurstLeslie K. Hodge, Charles A. Milligan, Steven A. Johnson. 1087-1096
• An Analysis of Historic UNIX Performance and Resource Usage TrendsRobert Cousins, Daniel Keehn. 1097-1108
• Capacity Requirements Estimation and Safety FactorsJoseph B. Major. 1109-1114
• Network Analysis Case StudyBarbara H. Pendergrass, Robert N. Bonham. 1115-1120
• The DB2 Catalog: An Item of ContentionEdward A. Woods. 1121-1131
• There May Not Be a Free Lunch But You Can Get CloseCharles W. Hopf. 1132-1138
• Understanding The S/390 Parallel Sysplex: A Technical IntroductionMartin M. Bradley. 1139-1148
• Improved Techniques For Capture Ratio Calculations and Capacity Threshold DeterminationsGraham E. Bell. 1149-1156
• If the Future is Here, Where is My Data?Roger L. Eberlin, Cecelia Bellomo. 1157-1166
• Using Technology to Manage a Large Data CenterJames W. Oswald. 1167-1174
• Performance Characterization of the TPC-C BenchmarkH. Reza Taheri, Joyce Wang, Son Luong, Mark Riley, Bradley J. Askins. 1175-1184
• The Optical Storage AlternativeAnna M. Long. 1185-1193
• Multi-Platform Performance and Capacity ManagementEric D. Ho. 1194-1204
• Cause and Effect of I/O Elongation in a Logically Partitioned EnvironmentRonald C. Bradt, Curt H. Whipple. 1205-1208
• An Implementation Case Study of a Multi-Site Data Center ConsolidationJerry L. Lemon. 1209-1216
• Hardware Data Compression In Large Systems EnvironmentsSteven R. Dodge, Joe Carlisle, David J. Young. 1217-1227
• Surviving My First Client/Server, Distributed Systems Capacity StudyJohn R. Carroll, William S. Cool. 1228-1235
• Effects of Self-Similar Traffic on Queueing SystemsKevin F. Smith. 1236-1247
• Optimizing DASD Performance Without Buying HardwareDavid P. Griffith, Pierre J. Raymond, Mark K. Van Buren. 1248-1259
• How Many Users Does Your VM System Support?Robert L. Guenther. 1260-1265
• Management Communication Basics for Capacity PlannersButch Rambish. 1266-1271
• A Methodology for the Attribution of Hardware Resources Consumption in a Multilayer TechnologyNino A. Malacarne. 1272-1283
• Object-Oriented Performance ManagementAlbert B. Short. 1284-1291
• The Role of Visualization in Multi-Platform Performance and Capacity ManagementLeonard D. Lipner. 1292-1301
• Tuning Memory Pool Sizes In AS/400Yiping Ding, Subhash C. Agrawal. 1302-1313
• Exploring the Different Facets of Distributed SystemsRichard L. Gimarc. 1314-1321
• Helping CIO s Succeed: The Role of Performance and Capacity Management ProgramsG. Jay Lipovich. 1322-1330
• Do You Have a Successful Help Desk?John L. Connor. 1331-1338
• Adventures in Chargeback-or-Successes and Experiences in Computer Cost AccountingGregory V. Caliri. 1339-1342
• MVS/ESA Full vs. Reduced/Partial PreemptionSteve C. Lambourne. 1347-1352