Table of Contents

• Performance Optimization in PC Server EnvironmentPaul A. Awoseyi.
• Performance Measurement of the PeopleSoft Multi-Tier Remote Computing ApplicationYi-Chun Chu. 1-25
• DASD Tuning in the New DASD EnvironmentThomas Beretvas. 26-38
• Getting Started in Mainframe Capacity PlanningGregory V. Caliri. 39-43
• Network Performance Monitoring in Windows NTMelur K. Raghuraman, Venkat Ramanathan. 44-50
• DB2 Buffer Pool Tuning - Top Down or Bottom Up?Joel Goldstein. 51-62
• Comparing MVS and UNIX Workload CharacteristicsBrian L. Wong. 63-69
• Service Level Instrumentation 101 - An In-Depth Look at How to Instrument End User TransactionsSteven E. Smead. 70-84
• Business Centric Resource Management ReportingDaniel P. Ruehl. 85-93
• Performance Metric Validation in ChaosCharles L. Burmaster, Robert Daniel Johnson, Robert H. Johnson. 94-105
• Disk Capacity, Performance, and Cost: Maintaining the BalanceBruce McNutt. 106-113
• Capacity Planning and Performance: Tips and TechniquesTim Follen. 114-120
• End-To-End Response Time and Beyond : Direct Measurement of Service LevelsMike Tsykin, Christopher D. Langshaw. 121-132
• NT BenchmarkingBernard Domanski. 133-149
• Characterizing Normal Operation of a Web Server: Application to Workload Forecasting and Problem DeterminationJoseph L. Hellerstein, Fan Zhang, Perwez Shahabuddin. 150-160
• Fibre Channel: The Third Age of Disk ConnectivityTed McGavin. 161-165
• Getting to Goal ModeLinwood Merritt. 166-171
• User Experience of RVA2 and Snapshot CopyJaqueline A. Lynch, Richard Milner. 172-176
• Beyond Availability ManagementAndrew L. McCasker. 177-184
• Capacity Planning: Are We Still Counting Angles on a PinheadJohn F. Maher. 185-189
• A CICSDB2 Legacy Application takes the Sysplex PlungeJodi Perry, William J. Raymond, David J. Young. 190-201
• Asset Management In a Distributed Computing EnvironmentTachen Leo Lo. 202-208
• CPU Time Measurement ErrorsAdrian N. Cockcroft. 209-218
• Under the Covers: Internals of a Web-Based Network & Systems Performance Reporting SystemGeoffrey L. Bradford. 219-225
• Comparison of HTTP and HTTPS Sever PerformanceAndrew Schmitt, Arthur P. Goldberg, Robert Buff. 226-231
• Evaluating and Improving CICS Performance in MVS (Goal Mode)Donald R. Deese. 232-244
• Optimizing the Performance of Wintel ApplicationsMark B. Friedman. 245-259
• Classical Comparative Analysis Procedures and Deterministic ChaosRichard A. Carlisle. 260-271
• Workload Forecasting Issues for World Wide (and Web) ApplicationsRoger P. Botterbusch. 272-278
• Resource Accounting, Cost Allocation & Charge-back in a DFSMS EnvironmentDale Bryan Drake. 279-285
• UNIX Memory Usage, Instrumentation and AnalysisRichard McDougall. 286-290
• Load Testing in an Internet WorldRobert J. Michalsky. 291-299
• TPF - An Operating System for PerformanceHans W. Arnold. 300-304
• Will the REAL Parallel Sysplex Please Stand UpSteve C. Lambourne. 305-316
• Oracle Performance Analysis using Wait EventsPat V. Crain, Craig D. Hanson. 317-324
• How to Stop DFHSM Thrashing in an SMS WorldJohn C. Tyrrell. 325-336
• Performance Evaluation of Distributed Software ArchitecturesConnie U. Smith, Lloyd G. Williams. 337-345
• Planning Domino Email Servers using Notes TransactionsWilliam G. Pope. 346-356
• The Ubiquitous SCSI: What Is It?Brian L. Wong. 357-362
• The Day We Hung Up Our Sandals or Workload Manager in Goal Mode OperationJohn Mullen. 363-373
• Countdown to the Millenium: Issues to Consider in the Final YearEllen M. Friedman, Jerry L. Rosenberg. 374-387
• The Folly of Ownership Revisited or Whose CICS Region is That, Anyway?Stephen L. Samson. 388-393
• Introduction To Fibre Channel ConnectivityWayne Munson. 394-403
• A Planning Model for Lotus Notes ApplicationsWilliam G. Pope. 404-408
• Estimating Network Traffic for Workload ModelingSam Nokes. 409-421
• Scrambling To Upgrade Infrastructure Software For Year 2000Thomas E. Bell, Russell C. Davis. 422-430
• Database Layout Guidelines for Large QueriesDoug V. Johnson. 431-436
• Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning of the UNIX SystemsSudhir R. Nath. 437-447
• Performance and Availability of Rplicated Database ServersDaniel A. Menascé, Nagesh Kakarlamudi. 448-455
• Performance Issues in Large Distributed System SecurityAlan Harbitter, Daniel A. Menascé. 456-467
• IT Availability - It s Critical to Your BusinessGeorge W. Dodson. 468-487
• Performance Evaluation of Web ApplicationsDanilo Gotta Luca Biffi. 468
• A Unique VTS ExperienceRichard S. Ralston. 488-495
• Scalability Analysis of SCSI Connected IO SystemsHari Sivaraman, Swami Ramany. 496-506
• From Design to Delivery: A Practical Experience on Performance PredictionLuca Pagliarini, Silvio Pastore Stocchi. 507-517
• I/O Concurrency, I/O Bandwidth, Access Density and the LikeAnthony G. Mungal. 518-527
• Measuring Service Levels in E-business Applications and AppletsMark W. Johnson. 528-538
• Analyzing the Impact of Dynamic Pages on the Performance of Web ServersMarco A. Mendes, Virgilio Almeida. 539-547
• Who Needs Virtual Tape When You Have Fat DASD? Maybe You Do!Frank M. Bereznay. 548-555
• Expanding The Reach Of DB2: TCP/IP and DRDAEdward A. Woods. 556-565
• The RMF Type 70 Record: A Plethora of PossibilitiesIrwin F. Kraus. 566-576
• Organizational Behavior to Systems Implementation FailuresJoseph K. Merton. 577-581
• Tales from the Crypto: Performance Alerts for Mainframe Users of Integrated Cryptographic FacilitiesWayne A. Wyrobek. 582-592
• Using Unix Accounting Utilities for Chargeback AccountingDon O. Koch, Gail Ridgley, Carl Meredith. 593-601
• Prefetching Results of Web SearchesHarry J. Foxwell, Daniel A. Menascé. 602-609
• Understanding the Windows NT I/O SubsystemJee Fung Pang, Melur K. Raghuraman. 610-616
• DIBs, Data Buffers, and Distance: Understanding the Performance Characteristics of ESCON LinksH. Pat Artis. 617-625
• Creating a Response Time Agreement for C/S Applications is a Whole New Ballgame!Jack B. Woolley. 626-635
• ARM Yourself for Continuous AvailabilityJodi E. Perry. 636-642
• Data Warehouse Performance: A Methodology for AnalysisJim Skeen. 643-654
• Monitoring Your MS Exchange ServerCarol E. Kerr. 655-663
• The World According to a Storage SystemWilliam Z. Zahavi. 664-674
• Performance Monitor - The View From the Driver s SeatRonald V. Jones. 675-681
• 40, 153, 273, 652 Chuck Hopf. 682-697
• Integrating Data in the EnterpriseEddie Rabinovitch. 698-707
• SRDF Remote Copy Performance Test ResultsMark P. Grinnell. 708-717
• Network Traffic Analysis at the 20, 000 Foot Level - Or Where Did All This Traffic Come FromHenry Steinhauer. 718-721
• Performance Measurement Methodology: Passive vs. ActiveJunro Nose, Jun Ohyama. 722-727
• Characteristics of WWW Proxy TracesIlya Pevzner, Arthur P. Goldberg. 728-737
• PC Desktop Performance and Hardware Performance CountersAndy Martin. 738-748
• MVS Application Performance ManagementKenneth D. Williams. 749-760
• Managing the UNIX MainframeAdrian N. Cockcroft. 761-771
• Measuring the Effects of Wide Area Networks and Data TransmissionJoseph K. Merton. 772-779
• Prefetching Inlines to Improve Web Server LatencyRonald Dodge, Daniel A. Menascé. 780-788
• Performance Management of Larger Distributed Systems Based on Windows NTT and Ethernet NetworksAdam Grummitt. 789-797
• Does Your Installation Have Half-Second I/O Response Time?Alan M. Sherkow. 798-809
• Analyzing Data with UncertaintyYiping Ding, Kenneth Newman. 810-820
• The Performance Impact of Workload Characterization Using ARMFerass ElRayes, Jerome A. Rolia, Richard J. Friedrich. 821-830
• Analyzing RMF Service Class Data and Workload Activity ReportsDonald R. Deese. 831-841
• Forecasting Processor Consumption in a Multiple Machine EnvironmentJeffry A. Schwartz. 842-853
• End-To-End Response Time of Lotus Notes Client and Limited DecompositionMark M. Maccabee. 854-862
• Real-time, 3-D Graphics for the Linux PCRobert Geist, James Westall, Dante M. Treglia. 863-873
• On Modeling and Characterizing Self-Similar Data TrafficPierre M. Fiorini, Yiping Ding, Lester Lipsky. 874-885
• Performance Engineering Models of CORBA-based Distributed-Object SystemsConnie U. Smith, Lloyd G. Williams. 886-898
• Managing 100+ ServersClaude Aron, Suresh V. Gadad. 899-909
• Performance Testing & Analysis of Distributed Client/Server Database SystemsBrian L. Farrell, Richard Menninger, Stephen G. Strickland. 910-921
• Don t Predict Applications When You Should Model the BusinessTim R. Norton. 922-933
• The Realities of PerformanceKelly L. Carr. 934-956
• Optimizing Computer System ConfigurationsJozo J. Dujmovic. 957-967
• Reliability & Availability of Client/Server Networks: An Old Problem in A New EnvironmentPaul W. Edmiston, Jack Peng, Tachen Leo Lo. 968-975
• Long-term File System Activity and Inter-reference PeriodsTimothy J. Gibson, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long. 976-987
• Experiences Migrating a Large Assembler Mainframe Simulator to C++ on a PCAlex Patterson. 988-993
• I Did It My WayChuck Hopf. 994-998