Dates/Times - - All webinars are on Wednesdays at 11:00am Eastern, unless otherwise noted
Our webinars vary from 30 minutes to one hour. After each webinar, Peter Enrico and Scott Chapman will be available for a post-webinar Q and A.
Future Webinars
Batch Initiators – WLM Managed or JES Managed? ..... March 20th ..... Sign up has ended. Please see Our Presentations page if you would like to download a copy of the presentation slides
In the world of batch job management, the choice of initiator strategy (WLM or JES) may seem confusing. What are the advantages of WLM initiators over JES initiators – or is there one? Should I/could I use a mixture? In this webinar, Nancy DiFilippo will discuss what you should consider when deciding which workloads are best suited for WLM initiators.
Per CPU Utilizations ..... April 10th ..... Sign up using this link
When CPU utilizations are reported and analyzed, it is most common that the utilizations reported are for the pool of processors configured to a machine or to an LPAR. Rather than reporting the utilization of each processor, usually we just look at the average across all the online processors. Why is this? Is there any value to analyzing the utilizations of each individual processor? How are the measurements for an individual processor affected by HiperDispatch? During this presentation, Scott Chapman will explore reporting and analyzing individual CPU measurements. It will be interesting to see how the measurements for individual processors differ from reporting the utilization of the pool of processors.
AI on Z: Exploring New SMF Measurements ..... April 24th ..... Sign up using this link
The IBM z16 has a built-in AI accelerator. The IBM mainframe community is expecting many real-world uses of this AI accelerator with new exploitation. As always, the exploitation of new functionality always has a cost and will need to be measured. During this presentation, Peter Enrico will explore some of the new AI measurements and measurement methodology on Z. Peter is no expert on AI on Z, but he is willing to dip his toe in the water to start explaining the measurements and how to measure the performance costs of AI.
Previous Sessions
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