Mid Atlantic Midrange is proud to offer the next in our continuing education seminars, bringing you the best education and educators available in the iSeries world, and to do so at User Group Rates.

System Management of the AS/400 and iSeries systems
With David Prescott

This one-day seminar explores issues and techniques that will help you manage your AS/400 and iSeries more effectively.

We start the day out with System Management Tips and Techniques. This will be a very practical "how-to" session including specific procedures for managing your AS/400 or iSeries on a day-to-day basis. We will discuss such topics as: documenting your system, system control functions for the system operator, disk space management, tape library maintenance, and PTF management. Throughout the presentation we will highlight the newest features and functions of OS/400 as they apply to System Management.

We then move on to discuss Version and Release Upgrades on the AS/400 and iSeries. Doing a version or a release upgrade on an AS/400 or iSeries system does not need to be a difficult task. This session covers the detailed planning and preparation steps that must be performed before a release upgrade can be attempted. This is followed by a detailed explanation of what actually happens during a release upgrade, and then a discussion of the activities that must be performed after the release upgrade has completed. We will focus on release upgrades to V5R1 and to V5R2, including the issues involved in skipping a release (for example upgrading directly from V4R5 to V5R2). After this session you should be fully prepared to perform your own version and release upgrades.

Next we’ll discuss performance and then take a glimpse at how partitioning (LPAR) might fit into your future. We start out with Performance Tuning Made Easy. This session covers techniques that you can use to tune your AS/400 or iSeries system. We will discuss such topics as: how to set up memory pools, using the system Dynamic Tuner, using Expert Cache, tuning for interactive, batch, and system jobs, and finally how to monitor your system performance.

We then go into Capacity Planning on the AS/400 and iSeries. Performing a capacity planning analysis on your system is actually a fairly easy process. In this session we discuss how to do capacity planning using two AS/400 and iSeries capacity planning tools, BEST/1 and PATROL-Predict. PATROL-Predict differs from BEST/1 in that the system upgrade modeling functions of PATROL-Predict run on your PC and use a GUI.

We begin the session with the concepts of capacity planning, followed by the specific functions of the capacity planning tools, including flexible workload definition and automatic model generation of a complete model of an AS/400 or iSeries system. We will use an example to show the steps necessary to do a complete capacity planning analysis. The example shows how to take measured data from an AS/400 or iSeries system, add additional workloads to it, and then how to grow the workloads over time, yielding a series of hardware upgrade configurations to meet the system growth requirements.

We finish the day by spending some time Understanding LPAR on the AS/400 and iSeries. Logical Partitioning (LPAR) provides a powerful capability for consolidating multiple AS/400 and iSeries systems onto a single system. Each partition of a partitioned system can have its own copy of OS/400, allowing for example running the current OS/400 release in a production partition, and testing the next OS/400 release in a different partition. Sizes of system resources in each partition can be changed dynamically and shifted from one partition to another to adapt to changing requirements. This session begins with the concepts of partitioning, including environments best suited to partitioning. This is followed by a discussion on hardware and software considerations for partitioning, highlighting how to begin planning for a partitioned environment. Since OS/400 and other system software products are licensed to the system, and not to each partition of the system, large software savings are possible for an LPAR system when compared to buying licenses for multiple systems. This session should provide you a good understanding of how LPAR could fit into your future.

Dave Prescott has been an AS/400 specialist since 1987 and was an IBM Rochester Lab Consultant and participant in the AS/400 National Technical Advocate Program. His special interests include AS/400 and iSeries performance tuning and capacity planning, system operations, and system management. Dave is retired from IBM and is co-owner of Systems Management Associates, Inc. Since leaving IBM, he has provided system management and performance expertise in a large installation with multiple AS/400s. Dave is an IBM Certified iSeries Expert

This course starts at 8:30 AM and ends at 5:00 PM and will be held on:

March 6, 2003 at the Richmond Airport Holiday Inn in Richmond, VA
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April 30, 2003 at Holiday Inn in Fort Washington, PA.

The course fee is $250 for non-user group members and $225 for user group members. A cancellation fee of $50 will be assessed for cancellations within 7 days of the event. This fee offering is a special arrangement between Washington Area Midrange Users Group and MidAtlantic Midrange. Members of other AS/400 User groups may also apply under the user group rate.

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