Essential z/OS Performance Tuning Workshop – Registration Deadline: March 16, 2026.

The 4-day z/OS Performance Tuning Essentials Workshop introduces the foundational terminology, metrics, and practices necessary to measure, understand, and improve z/OS system performance. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the factors driving performance and capacity utilization in the mainframe z/OS environment. Key concepts will be explored in depth to build a mental model of how workloads are processed and managed by z/OS, enabling participants to explain and tune workload performance effectively. This workshop is ideal for those new to the mainframe or z/OS performance and capacity roles, as well as experienced professionals looking to explore their systems’ performance with modern tools and an instructor with over 30 years of mainframe performance experience.

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Register to join us March 30, 31, April 2, and 3, 2026 for this online workshop.

Registration Deadline: March 16, 2026.

Instructor: Scott Chapman
Scott Chapman has over three decades of diverse experience in mainframe performance and capacity, having been an application developer, application performance analyst, system programmer and capacity planner. Having taught this class for multiple years, Scott brings a great deal of information to provide students with a solid foundation in z/OS performance. Scott is our CIO at EPS and co-designer of Pivotor®, our z/OS performance reporting software. Contact Scott: Scott.Chapman@epstrategies.com

This workshop is constantly being updated with the latest IBM announcements and the latest performance tuning and management techniques.