Power Tour from IBM Rochester Laboratories

                         IBM Forum Evere October, 29 2009 Agenda

9:00 to 9:30 Welcome Coffee

 9:30 to 10:45 - IBM i 6.1, Power Hardware and Beyond - Gottfried Schimunek, IBM Rochester

What’s new in IBM i? What’s coming? Is this in line with the marketplace?  This session will review the most recent announcements for both IBM i and Power Hardware. We will also preview some things that are being considered for future releases.

10:45 to 11:15 Coffee

 11:15 to 12:30 - Introduction to Data Warehousing - When, Why, How? - Robert Andrews, IBM Rochester

Starting to look at data warehouse or business intelligence solutions? Feeling overwhelmed with requests for more reports that are eating you alive? This session will help you design and build a Datamart or Enterprise Data Warehouse. This session will introduce you to terminology and concepts around this important reporting infrastructure. Positioning of various toolsets and solution approaches will be covered, as well as a highlight of key enablers within DB2 for IBM i to support data warehousing applications.

12:30 to 13:30 Lunch

13:30 to 14:45 - IBM Systems Director - Gottfried Schimunek, IBM Rochester

From the creative minds that brought you iSeries Navigator, Management Central, Virtualization Manager, and IBM Director, comes IBM Systems Director 6.1! This new web-based management tool brings together the best of all our previous systems management tools into one place. The result is a single point of control where you can manage Power Systems, BladeCenters, System x, and System z, along with IBM i, AIX, Windows, and Linux operating systems. Come learn how to utilize the latest IBM Systems Director has to offer including how to monitor, automate, configure, update, and virtualize. Learn how energy management begins with a free download. You will also learn how IBM Systems Director ties in your favorite tools so you can use what you already have; while at the same time grow your toolkit with Systems Director's plug-ins. See how we can run IBM i, AIX, and HMC web console tasks, as well as commands and scripts on managed operating systems.

14:45 to 15:15 Coffee

15:15 to 16:30 – Capacity planning for AIX, Linux and IBM i and VIOS - Gottfried Schimunek, IBM Rochester

Analytical tools for performance capacity planning were available as part of the performance tools LP on Power Systems and IBM i (and before on iSeries and AS/ 400) for many years and were based on real time measurements of transactions and corresponding resource usage. Extrapolations done with these tools are extremely precise since measured data are directly fed into the extrapolation model. Also real application code path length and speeds and feeds of hardware and operating system code is used to determine resource utilization and response time ratings. This presentation will demonstrate yet another capacity planning and sizing tool called the Workload Estimator - WLE. We will demonstrate how to use this web based tool for the i, AIX and Linux on Power applications which operates directly on the web or as a download, but is much quicker, easier to use and produces better and more attractive charts and graphs then previous tools. We will go through "what if" scenarios and demonstrate the impact of various hard and software options to throughput and resource utilization.

Gottfried Schimunek:

Gottfried Schimunek is a Senior IT Architect with IBM and has been taking a lead role in application and product development projects for over 25 years. Currently he is the Program Manager and Technical Consultant for IBM i on IBM Power Systems and Power Blades in the ISV Enablement team in Rochester, Minnesota. His primary interests are performance measurement analysis and capacity planning of applications. Gottfried is a frequent presenter at customer, user group, and technical conferences around the world.  

Robert Andrews

Robert Andrews is an Advisory Software Engineer. He has been with IBM for eight years and focuses on database and journaling technologies on System i. Robert is the IBM Support Center focal point for DB2 Web Query, an advisor for the Redbook, and has been involved with the product from early 2008 through development, the entire beta program, and now in GA. Robert authored "The Ins and Outs of XML and DB2 for i5/OS" Redbook and has appeared in several trade publications. Robert holds Masters in MIS and Management from the University of Phoenix and Bachelors in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Education from Cardinal Stritch University