The article is written by Joan Kelley, one of the most knowledgeable people we've met on tuning parallel sysplex. Joan works with the Parallel Sysplex Test and Evaluation group in Poughkeepsie, and has helped many customers tune their installations. We think that implementation of the techniques provided in Joan's article can save you thousands of dollars in better managed resources. A note on parallel sysplex has been added on page 6, from Mike Cox, Senior Consulting IT Specialist of IBM's Washington Systems Center, one of the most enthusiastic supporters of parallel sysplex. The new facility isn't well advertised, so we've asked Bob Shannon from Programart to provide an in-depth discussion of this facility on page 25.
New fixes appear almost every other week.
We've provide at least three new things to try on page 5 and 36. We're now hearing from several sites who say that their total software charges have actually gone down when they moved from V1 to V2. It's still something you should check before the change. For installations who are trying to resolve the issues of managing and analyzing huge amounts of data, SAS Institute's IT Service Vision may be just what you need. It's the master of data reduction for all types of data warehousing applications including your performance and capacity data bases.