A huge thank you to Logicalis for hosting the meeting and providing lunch.

Mark Wilson

Chairman

GSE Large Systems Working Group

Apologies:

Morag Senior(Aegon)

Mick Chandler(Thesaurus)

1. Minutes of previous meeting and matters arising.

No matters arising.

2. GUIDE Business

Vacant Posts:

None at this time 

Venues & Topics:

Future meeting venues and conference topics discussed, if any of the membership has a topic or specific subject that they would like to see covered in future meetings and/or the annual conference please let us know.

LSWG Meetings:

Next Meeting:

• Next LSG Meeting:
• 8th September 2009 -  Venue: TBC : Looking for venue and sponsor for lunch
• Annual Conference:
• 4th – 5th November 2009 – Whittlebury Hall, Northampton.

3. Announcements

To celebrate 50 years of GSE, this years Annual GSE conference, will be free for GSE members, provided that they register before the end of September and actually attend the conference. This is subject to terms and conditions that will be displayed in the registration information page.

Scottish Sysprog Group

Morag Senior of Aegon and Andy Coulson of RBS are considering setting up a group for systems programmers in Scotland.  We understand that there was one in existence several years ago, which was reasonably successful while it lasted!  Is there anybody based in Scotland who would be interested in being involved in such a group, and what are your views on what format it might take?  In an informal context a local group, meeting up on occasional evenings, might be valuable for making contacts and getting a feel for what other data centres are focussed on.  On a more formal note, we could organise regular technical meetings, depending on whether we could get venues and people willing to attend/present.  If you are interested in becoming part of a local Scottish group, then please could you send Morag an email at morag.senior@aegon.co.uk with your contact details.  If you have a strong opinion on what form you think the group should take, or you can offer support in terms of ideas/presentations, then please include them.

4. Experiences

None

5. Presentations

Configuring z/VM and zLinux for Performance – Barton Robinson (Velocity Software)
The presentation can be found here.

Hiperdispatch – Roger Fowler (IBM)
The presentation can be found here.

zOS R11 Overview – Roger Fowler (IBM)
The presentation can be found here.

Networking – in the light of PCI DSS– Gordon Webber (William Data Systems)
The presentation can be found here.

System z10 Updates– Doug Neilson (IBM)
The presentation can be found here.

IBM Announcements – Roger Fowler (IBM UK Ltd)
The presentation can be found here.

5. Hints and Tips

Some debate ensued around various items with feedback as follows:

• Paul Arnerich (TSD)

Beware of an HFS/ZFS Migration issue, which results in corrupt data. The APAR relating to this HFS to zFS problem is OA29143. Still open and getting weirder.

• Graham Cornell (DDS)

Does anybody have experience of Workload Manager (WLM) hooks into applications. We have a homegrown TP Monitor, from which we would like to define Applications to WLM.

Paul Arnerich suggested that there are samples, which can be found documented at the Washington Systems Centre website.

• Mark Wilson (RSM Partners)

Can anybody explain the APF Authorisation of the System Rexx Library.

Roger Fowler(IBM) duly produced a presentation…..that he made earlier!

7. Feedback

None

8. Vendor Updates

• FDR/Innovation – Richard Suggit

The presentation can be found here.

• Compute Bridgend – David Austin

The presentation can be found here.

• Shoden – Phil Jones

The presentation can be found here.

• Fitz Software – Mike Fitzgerald

The presentation can be found here.

• WDR – Gordon Webber

The presentation can be found here.

• TSD – Paul Arenerich - We didnt get to see this one, but Paul has supplied the attached

The presentation can be found here.