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8:15 a.m. Registration
A continental breakfast will be provided.
8:45 a.m. MVMRUG Business Meeting
9:00 a.m. Fast Web Serving on VM
Barton Robinson, Velocity Sofware, Inc.
Abstract
This presentation will present what led Velocity
Software to develop our own very fast VM-based web
server.
Velocity Software uses VM with TCPIP as our Web
server, FTP server, Mail server (using POP3) and
for telnet access.
This is a follow-up to previous presentations showing
what I've learned on measuring and tuning VM network
servers, and specifically, VM Web servers using the
Velocity Software measurement tools: ESAMAP, ESAMON
and ESATCP. Understanding TCPIP, network measure-
ments, and the network applications, and tying all
this information together to understand server
performance has been quite a challenge.
You CAN do service level agreements, you CAN analyze
traffic patterns and you CAN do network analysis
from VM.
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. VM Displaces Sun: An E-mail Gateway Project
Phil Smith III, Sterling Software
Abstract
Today's press is ripewith stories of mainframes being
replaced with "small" servers, with alleged cost
savings (often never realized).
Come hear the reality of a large corporation which
replaced three mega-powered Sun Servers with several
service virtual machines on their VM images, moving
several hundred thousand pieces of mail per day --
without those systems' 30,000 interactive users
noticing the change in load! This is the kind of
task at which Big Iron excels -- and a lesson to
which more CIOs should pay attention.
Phil will discuss the environment and the process
of developing the 20,000-odd lines of REXX and
CMS Pipelines involved, including a number of
lessons learned. Bring your CIO!
11:45 a.m. Lunch (We usually visit one of the local restaurants
as a group or you are free to go on your own)
1:00 p.m. FREE - FOR - ALL
1:30 p.m. Y2K Post-mortem
(A roundtable discussion of experiences that VM shops
had over the New Year's weekend)
Abstract
With the big Y2K weekend several weeks behind us, now
is the time to tell some tales. How did your site
fare? Was Y2K a boom or a bust?
During this round table discussion, you'll have a
chance to hear what happened at our member shops
while the champagne corks were 'poppin'. The Timken
Company's corporate Y2K coordinator and long-time
CMS developer will be on hand to offer his observa-
tions and stimulate discussion.
2:30 p.m. Break
2:45 p.m. Doing GUI Programming on VM/ESA Using NetRexx
Chuck Morse, IBM-Washington Systems Center
Abstract
With the availability of JAVA on VM/ESA, we now have
the ability to port JAVA applications from other
platforms to VM/ESA. NetRexx on VM/ESA combines the
best features of REXX with the object model and
portability of JAVA, providing an easy way for VM
programmers familiar with REXX, to develop JAVA
aplications on VM. The availability of the Remote
Abstract Windowing Toolkit further enhances VM's
capabilities by allowing the execution of GUI JAVA
and NetRexx applications.
This session will demonstrate how to write GUI
applications on CMS using NetRexx and the Remote
AWT, and will compare this approach to the other
available options such as the VM GUI Feature and
"webifying" CMS applications.
4:00 p.m. Door Prizes/Closing/Q & A/Socializing
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