Performance: Resources for learning

Use the following links to find relevant supplemental information about performance. The information resides on IBM and non-IBM Internet sites, whose sponsors control the technical accuracy of the information.

These links are provided for convenience. Often, the information is not specific to the IBM WebSphere Application Server product, but is useful for understanding the product. When possible, links are provided to technical papers and Redbooks that supplement the broad coverage of the release documentation with in-depth examinations of particular product areas.

• Request metrics
• Monitor performance with third-party tools
• Tune performance
• Java performance resource
• (iSeries) Performance resources

Request metrics

• Systems Management: Application Response Measurement (ARM)

  The Open Group ARM specifications.

Monitor performance with third-party tools

• IBM Search Solutions.

  Use IBM's Global Solution Directory to find a list of IBM's business partners that offer performance monitoring tools compliant with WAS.

Tune performance

• (iSeries) WebSphere and Java tuning tips

  This page provides links to papers and articles that can help you take advantage of the latest WAS for IBM i performance improvements, tools, and tuning methods to optimize WAS performance.

• (iSeries) Tune the WebSphere Prepared Statement Cache

  This PDF manual describes how to configure the prepared statement cache in WAS for IBM i. The prepared statement cache can improve the performance of data access.

• (iSeries) WAS for IBM i Performance Considerations

  This page provides links to information about basic performance considerations for WAS for IBM i.

• (iSeries) Maximum Performance with WAS V5.1 on iSeries

  This book explains how to tune the iSeries server for IBM WAS. The book is divided into several logical tuning tasks, such as tuning the Java virtual machine. We can study each of these logical blocks and apply them independently from other tasks. But, to achieve optimum performance on the system, we should use the systematic approach that is shown in this book.

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• (iSeries) The IBM Virtual Innovation Center™ for Hardware: Education

  Access a variety of Internet-Based Education (IBE) informational modules, each dealing with one specific topic. They are intended to help you incorporate the latest technology into your iSeries applications through multimedia presentations, Q&A areas, examples, and quizzes. We can search for "WebSphere Performance" to find current links on performance education.

• Hints on Running a high-performance web server

  Read hints about running Apache on a heavily loaded web server. The suggestions include how to tune your kernel for the heavier TCP/IP load, and hardware and software conflicts.

• Performance Analysis for Java websites

  Offers clear explanations and expert practical guidance on performance analysis for Java-based websites. It offers extensive appendices, including worksheets for capacity planning, checklists to help you prepare for different stages of performance testing, and a list of performance-test tool vendors.

• (AIX) AIX documentation

  View the entire AIX software documentation library for releases 4.3, 5.1, and 5.2.

• WAS Development Best Practices for Performance and Scalability

  Describes development best practices for web applications with servlets, JavaServer Pages files, JDBC connections, and enterprise applications with Enterprise JavaBeans components.

• WAS V6 Scalability and Performance Handbook
• WebSphere tuning for the impatient: How to get 80% of the performance improvement with 20% of the effort

Java performance resource

• IBM developerWorks

  Search the IBM developerWorks website for a list of garbage collection documentation, including "Understanding the IBM Java Garbage Collector", a three-part series. To locate the documentation, search on "sensible garbage collection" in the developerWorks search application.

  Review "Understanding the IBM Java Garbage Collector" for a description of the IBM verbose:gc output and more information about the IBM garbage collector.

• (iSeries) Basic Java Performance for iSeries servers

  This white paper explains Just-In-Time Compiler coupled with Mixed Mode Interpreter (JIT-MMI), the user class loader verification cache, and memory pool considerations

• Whitepaper: IBM WAS for z/OS v6; A performance report

  The information in this white paper is designed to provide a balance of performance and benefits that can suit users of both IBM System z™ mainframes, and J2EE technology-based IBM WebSphere systems.

(iSeries) Performance resources

• Tune Java program performance with the IBM Developer Kit for the Java(TM) platform

  This topic describes how we can use the IBM Developer Kit for the Java(TM) platform to optimize the performance of our Java applications.

• Performance management

  This website provides extensive information about the iSeries server performance management.

• Performance Management Resource Library

  This page provides links to information that we can use to optimize server performance. The resource library includes white papers, articles, tools documentation, and more.

• Performance Capabilities Reference anual

  The Performance Management Library provides links to several editions of the Performance Capabilities Reference Manual. This manual includes information about optimizing performance for DB2 UDB for iSeries servers, web servers and WebSphere products, and Java applications.

• Performance

  This topic provides extensive information about managing and tuning the performance of our iSeries server.

• Applications for performance management

  This topic provides links to several tools we can use to monitor and manage your iSeries server performance.

• Collection Services

  Use Collection Services to collect performance data, which we can analyze with other performance tools.

• Performance Tools for our iSeries server

  Performance Tools for our iSeries server is a set of tools and commands we can use to view and analyze performance data in several ways.

• Performance Explorer (PEX)

  Performance Explorer is a data collection tool that helps you identify the causes of performance problems that cannot be identified with the other available tools or general trend analysis. For additional information, also see Performance Explorer (PEX)

• Performance Trace Data Visualizer

  Performance Trace Data Visualizer (PTDV) is a tool for processing, analyzing, and viewing Performance Explorer collection data residing in PEX database files.

• Performance Data Collector tool

  The Performance Data Collector (PDC) tool provides profile information about the programs that run on the iSeries server.

• IBM Performance Management for eServer™ iSeries

  IBM Performance Management for iSeries (formerly known as PM/400) uses Collection Services to gather the nonproprietary performance and capacity data from the server and then sends the data to IBM for analysis. For additional information, also see IBM Performance Management for eServer iSeries

• iDoctor for IBM i

  iDoctor for IBM i is a suite of applications that can help you monitor performance and troubleshoot common problems on the IBM i server.

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Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI)

Monitor performance with Tivoli Performance Viewer

Why use request metrics?

Tune the application serving environment

(ZOS) Monitor WebSphere Application Performance on z/OS