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This month in CCR2 we put the spotlight on one of our new contributors. Larry Green finishes his assessment of the latest enhancements to NetView® and invites you to join him for a November webinar to see how it can help you manage networks and systems from a single point of control through graphical displays and automation. Some regular contributors also return: Ed Woods with more on DB2® and WLM, and Don Zeunert with another tech tip for reducing overhead.

Feature DB2 and Workload Manager: setting optimal goals, part two Ed Woods concludes his look at WLM as it relates to DB2 with a discussion of application environments, DDF and DB2 subsystem address space goals, and a future where performance management is even easier and more dynamic.

Tech tip How to maintain time-dependent thresholds without the overhead of embedded situations OMEGAMON® customers who use embedded situations to look for time dependent workload issues can bring on unnecessary overhead. Don Zeunert offers several alternatives that are less administrative and resource intensive.

Product update What's new in NetView for z/OS?, part two Last month Larry Green highlighted some enhancements added to IBM Tivoli NetView® for z/OS® over the last year. This month he returns to look at the latest addition to an already rich set of TCP/IP management capabilities. Also, you can register below for an upcoming NetView webinar with the author.

Support update
IBM Tivoli Software systems management solutions provide day one support for z/OS 1.6 and z/VM 5.1
IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON systems management solutions for z/OS, CICS®, DB2, IMS, Networks, Storage, Cryptographic Coprocessors, UNIX System Services and Automation provide day one support for z/OS 1.6—which offers numerous enhancements to facilitate the integration of new applications on the z/OS platform. Additionally, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON for z/VM provides day one support for z/VM® 5.1.

White paper
Best practices for end-to-end zSeries systems management take it to a new level
End-to-end application performance management can give you a global view of your mainframe server environment, saving you valuable time in isolating and resolving problems. Find out more in this complimentary Meta Group analyst report, "Optimizing Infrastructure and Application Performance," now available to CCR2 readers.

Event update
IBM Tivoli Technical User Conference attendees peer behind the curtain of the on demand world
"Automation Solutions for the On Demand World" was the theme of this year's IBM Tivoli Technical User Conference, which was also host to Al Zollar's first address as the newly-appointed general manager of Tivoli Software.

Webinar of the month
Real-time TCP/IP management with NetView for z/OS—November 10
Join chief designer Larry Green for an update on NetView for z/OS and see how the latest enhancements make it a single network management solution for both TCP/IP and SNA environments, the two most widely installed networked application environments for S/390 and z/OS servers.

Event of the month
zSeries Expo to feature z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE and Linux on zSeries
This November conference in Miami Beach will introduce zSeries technologies for the on demand stage of e-business. Examine the concepts of grid, autonomic computing, and virtualization, and learn how to start building the foundation for on demand using zSeries servers.

More IBM Tivoli Software events
Throughout the year, IBM Tivoli software sponsors and participates in many industry trade shows, live seminars, and other IBM events. See what's happening in your part of the world this month.

Congratulations to our 25 August Quick Question Giveaway winners, who were notified by e-mail about their memory stick prize.

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