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Publish Date
25 November 2008
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Author(s)
- Hernando Bedoya
- Monti Abrahams
- Jose Goncalves
- Jana Jamsek
- Sabine Jordan
- Kent Kingsley
- Vivian Kirkpatrick
- Dave Martin
- Chris Place
- Roberta Placido
- Larry Youngren
- Jim Denton
- Kolby Hoelzle
- Paul Swenson
- Fred Robinson
Hernando Bedoya is an IT Specialist at the IBM ITSO, in Rochester, Minnesota. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide in all areas of DB2 for i5/OS. Before joining the ITSO more than seven years ago, he worked for IBM Colombia as an IBM AS/400 IT Specialist doing parsleys support for the Andean countries. He has 24 years of experience in the computing field and has taught database classes at Colombian universities. He holds a master's degree in computer science from EAFIT, Colombia. His areas of expertise are database technology, application development, and high availability.
Monti Abrahams is a Senior IT Specialist for IBM South Africa, based in Cape Town. He is an IBM Certified Solutions Expert: DB2 Content Manager On Demand and a Certified SAP Technical Consultant with more than 15 years of experience in Operating System/400 (OS/400) and DB2 Universal Database for iSeries. Monti provides technical support and consulting to IBM System i clients throughout South Africa and Namibia. He also conducts training courses for IBM IT Education Services. Monti has co-authored several IBM Redbooks publications on various iSeries topics.
Jose Goncalves is a Senior Certified IT Specialist for System i of the European STG-Lab Services team in La Gaude, France. For the past seven years he has helped EMEA clients modernize legacy RPG applications and System i High Availability design and implementation. He has 25 years of experience. He has his master's degree in IT computer science from University PARIS VI, and in 1982 he joined IBM as Customer Engineer (MVS). Since 1992, he has worked on the AS/400 platform, mainly in application development (ICMS - IBM Telecommunication Billing and Customer Care software) and OS/400 System management and support.
Jana Jamsek is an IT Specialist in IBM Slovenia. She works in Storage Advanced Technical Support for Europe as a Specialist for IBM Storage systems and i5/OS systems. Jana has eight years of experience in the System i and AS/400 area and six years of experience in storage. She holds a master's degree in computer science and a degree in mathematics from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She was an author of the IBM Redpapers publication, The LTO Ultrium Primer for IBM eServer iSeries Customers, REDP-3580, and the IBM Redbooks publications iSeries in Storage Area Networks, iSeries and IBM TotalStorageIBM i and IBM System Storage: A Guide to Implementing External Disks on IBM i, SG24-7120; IBM Virtualization EngineThe IBM Virtualization Engine TS7510: Getting Started with i5/OS and Backup Recovery and Media Services, SG24-7510; Implementing IBM Tape in i5/OS, SG24-7440; IBM System Storage DS8000 Series: Copy Services in Open Environments, SG24-6788-03; and IBM System Storage DS8000 Series: Architecture and Implementation, SG24-6781-02.
Sabine Jordan is a Consulting IT Specialist working in IBM Germany. She has worked on several XSM implementations for both SAP and non-SAP environments. Among these implementations, she has created concepts for the XSM design and implemented the entire project (cluster setup, application changes), as well as performed customer education and testing. In addition, Sabine presents and delivers workshops (internal and external) on XSM, as well as high availability and disaster recovery.
Kent Kingsley is a Senior Software Engineer for Vision Solutions. He works on design and development of the MIMIX Cluster1 product and also works on design and implementation of customer cluster solutions. He also works with IBM in the cluster lab to test both IBM and MIMIX solutions and do proof-of-concept testing for potential customers.
Vivian Kirkpatrick is a Staff Software Engineer in the Rochester Support Center located in the United States. He has a degree in Computer Information Science from Minnesota State University, Mankato. He worked for three years in database support before moving to the SLIC/VMC/Internals/PHYP area, where he worked for six years. In 2007 a new high-availability team was created to focus on cluster-related issues. Vivian has developed and taught multiple courses for BIM Rochester employees and worldwide about support on Cluster, independent auxiliary storage pool (IASP), and geographic mirroring.
Dave Martin is a Certified IT Specialist in Advanced Technical Support (ATS). He started his IBM career in 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri, as a Systems Engineer. From 1979 to 1984, he taught System/34 and System/38 implementation and programming classes to customers and IBM representatives. In 1984 he moved to Dallas, Texas, where he has provided technical support for S/36, S/38, AS/400, iSeries, and System i in the areas of languages, operating systems, systems management, DB2 for i5/OS, and Business Intelligence. For the last four years his focus has been primarily on System i high availability considerations and solutions.
Chris Place is an IT Specialist in the Americas System i Technical Sales Support Organization in Rochester, Minnesota, focusing on HA and DASD performance. He has worked at IBM for 14 years. Chris has over five years of experience analyzing various aspects of System i performance. Prior to that, Chris worked at SAP Germany on the porting team in software logitics. Chris' areas of expertise include LIC, LPAR performance, and DASD performance. He has written extensively on LPAR performance. He works with customers directly in the areas of I/O hardware performance. He presents at various user groups and the IBM System i Technical Conference.
Roberta Placido joined IBM in December 1990 and started working as a software CE in the iSeries support center in Milan. Her responsibilities involve onsite services and advanced technical training on LPAR technologies, HA solutions, and clustering/IASP. She worked on the back end for two years for the internal team placed in Rochester supporting countries world wide. She deliver HA solution services, and last year she became a member of the HA team of the Rochester Support Center.
Larry Youngren after more than 30 years of experience leading the design efforts for System i database and journal support at IBM, Larry Youngren recently retired from IBM and now lectures, writes, and consults on high-availability issues. He also coordinates the efforts of other recently retired System i professionals who help out at colleges and at annual COMMON conferences as mentors. For 30 years he served as a Microcode Designer for the lower layers of the i5/ OS operating system and frequently consulted with customers regarding High Availability and Journal performance issues. During his IBM career, he worked exclusively with microcode, first for the S/38 and then for the System i. Larry helped the teams responsible for Data Base, Commit, SMAPP, and Journal. His interests involve future performance and recovery improvements affecting journaling and IPL duration. He and the team he led have authored a popular IBM Redbooks publication entitled Striving for Optimal Journal Performance on DB2 Universal Database for iSeries, SG24-6286, numerous magazine articles regarding both Ragged Save While Active and Remote Journaling, in addition to over a dozen journal-related IBM Technotes that address popular journal questions. These technotes can be accessed from the IBM Redbooks publication Web site.
Jim Denton is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM Rochester where he has been employed since 1981. He has held a variety of positions in operating system development and performance analysis on the S/38, AS400, System i, and Power Systems. His recent experience includes five years as a DB2 Specialist and a three-year assignment to the IBM Benchmark and Briefing Center in Montpellier France. Since 2005, Jim has been a member of the ERP development team with the mission of working closely with EnterpriseOne and World developers, producing performance benchmarks, and providing performance and tuning guidance for EnterpriseOne on i.
Kolby Hoelzle is an Advisory Software Engineer working at the IBM i development lab in Rochester, Minnesota. He is currently a member of the SAP on i Development Team working closely with SAP development. He joined IBM in 1999 and has over seven years of experience with SAP on the IBM i platform, including two years on assignment in Germany working at the SAP Development Lab in Walldorf, Germany. Kolby has extensive experience both implementing and developing iASP-based high-availability solutions for SAP applications. Kolby graduated from Utah State University in 1999.
Paul Swenson is a member of the IBM i ERP Development Team, which is part of the IBM i development lab in Rochester, Minnesota, and focuses solely on Lawson. He joined IBM in 2000 and has over four years of experience with Lawson applications on the IBM i platform. Prior to working in ERP Paul worked inIBM i Performance focusing on performance for Java and WebSphere applications for four years. Paul graduated from the University of North Dakota in 2000.
Fred Robinson is a Consulting Educator with the IBM i Technology Center in Rochester, Minnesota. Fred joined IBM in 1978 as a Systems Engineer in Joplin, Missouri. In 1986, he moved to Rochester to work on the convergence of the System/36 and System/38 into the AS/400. Fred has technical and practical skills in most areas of IBM i including Business Continuity, Storage, Virtualization, and Database. Fred has worked with many IBM Fortune 100 customers and small business customers alike to enhance their knowledge and understanding of both the IBM Systems family and IBM i. In addition to his work at the IBM i Technology Center, Fred is sought out by companies around the globe as a speaker and consultant.
ISBN
0738431982
IBM Form Number
SG24-7405-00