Below range of on-line courses correspond to a full on-site GiAPA course.

As a first inroduction we recommend the GiAPA Video (Use the link in left side of this page).

A second step could be to see and listen to the GiAPA Presentation.

If more information is wanted, an overview of most of the main feature of GiAPA can be obtained from this home page by selecting " Brief Description" from the "Product Intro" menu, and follow the "next >" links in the bottom of the pages appearing. 

List of GiAPA Tutorials:                                                      Option within

                                                                                        GiAPA Menu:

  1. Basic concepts, installation,  menu and commands (14 minutes)

  2. Starting and ending data collection (17 minutes)                               11, 13

  3. Data expansion & analysis: Creating the GiAPA data base (24 min.)   14

  4. Job Summary exception report, and job interval details (23 minutes)   15

  5. Analyzing file access (15 minutes)                                                   15 + F6-F7-F8

  6. Call stack analysis (16 minutes)                                                      15 + F9

  7. Reporting based on detailed performance data (16 minutes)              16

  8. Global HotSpot statistics per program or file (8 minutter)                    18, 22

  9. Summaries per job, user, or data collection interval (13 minutes)        17, 21

10. How to create charts: GiAPA graphics feature (26 minutes)                26 - 28

11. Data base file utilities (12 minutes)                                                   50 

12. Tracking use of Query400 – who, when, which query (4 minutes)        60

13. Export and import of data, housekeeping (7 minutes)                         70, 80

14. Optimization tips and techniques for development (33 minutes)  Password protected *)

15. ColdSpots, Job Watch function, Time Tracing utility (11minutes)         12, 48

16. Front end to IBM's PEX *STATS and *PROFILE (13 minutes)             30

17. Analysis of data from IBM's Trace Job command (10 minutes)            40

*)  GiAPA customers only: Use the password valid for downloading GiAPA updates