Episode 15 - Peter Enrico - Mainframe Performance - 9.25.2017




Terminal Talk show

Summary: <p>Peter Enrico is President of Enterprise Performance Strategies Inc, and has worked exhaustively on the mainframe platform to ensure that customers the the most from their systems. As you'll be able to tell from this interview, Peter is a natural go-to for advice on Workload Manager, Parallel Sysplex, Unix System Services, and just about anything you could hope to get your hands on. Even better, he's an an energetic speaker who loves helping demystify the platform, and we're lucky to have him on the show.</p> <p> </p> <p>1:16 - Who are you and how did you get in here?1:50 What should everybody know about Performance?3:59 Planning for Performance6:46 Customers. Know. Their Workloads7:36 Tuning Intelligently9:05 A millisecond saved is a ... lot of money recovered11:44 Leveraging resources to maximize performance13:27 Seek and Destroy (performance sinks)15:20 Working on Performance Post-IBM15:53 How do you even begin to explain this?17:39 WLM in a nutshell20:20 ... 'cause you gotta have goals22:18 How did it all work *BEFORE* WLM?25:53 What makes z/OS Special28:41 The Power of the Access of the Data30:02 What keeps Performance exciting?32:26 What challenges do you face?37:09 Sweet sweet goodbyes</p> <p>Enterprise Performance Strategies - <a href="http://pivotor.com">http://pivotor.com</a>email: <a href="mailto:contact@terminaltalk.net">contact@terminaltalk.net</a></p> <p>Twitter: @TerminalTalk</p>