Terminology

This topic lists and defines terminology used throughout the BMC AMI Capacity Reporting documentation.

Term

Description

CDB

Capacity Management Database

Dashboard

A dashboard is a high level container that can hold up to eight workflows organized by objective or business process. It also enables you to view an Alert Summary.

Nightly process

An automated process that runs in a predefined interval. This process retrieves data from the database and loads it into both the report view and the dashboard.

The nightly process performs the following tasks:

  • Reads through all of the dashboards
  • Finds the workflows that are referenced in those dashboards
  • Extracts new data for each of these workflows
  • Creates alerts based on rules

Report view

A format that summarizes the information retrieved from the database.

Shift profile

The number of hours in a day that you allocate for a task.

Workflow

A set of Report views that display the relevant performance data.

UIE (Universal Information Exchange)

A BMC component that runs on your mainframe system to read and process SMF/RMF and subsystem data collected from target z/OS images.

UIE can produce two types of output:

  • XML data files
  • Visualizer files

For more information, see theUIE

documentation.

 

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