Working with shift profiles
This section describes the Manage Shift Profiles option of the administration tools. The Manage Shift Profiles tool divides the time periods into shifts. The shifts are used as input to BMC AMI Capacity Reporting analytic processing. The data that the Manage Shift Profiles tool collects is analyzed in relation to the business activity at your site. To describe your business activity, you need to divide a typical day into hours called shifts that represent different levels of activity.
The following example show how the shifts might work for different types of activity:
- For a retail store, business activity on weekends is probably different from weekday activity, and daytime activity is different from nighttime activity. In this case, a business week might contain four shifts:
- Hours 1000-2000 on weekdays
- Hours 0000-1000 and 2000-2400 on weekdays
- Hours 1100-2200 on weekends
- Hours 0000-1100 and 2200-2400 on weekends
In the following example, the week has been divided into six distinct shifts:
- Weekdays (Monday through Friday) are different from weekends (Saturday and Sunday).
- Each 8-hour shift on a given day is different from every other shift on that day.
You can add Profile Groups to create Profile Shifts for certain LPARs or Sysplexes.
Fox example, production batch processing might take place on certain LPARs or Sysplexes during the overnight hours from 12 A.M. to 5 A.M. And, the online processing might take place on certain LPARs or Sysplexes during the day from 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. Using Profile Groups, you can set up shifts for only those Profile Group Identifiers that are specified for the Profile Group. When you add a Profile Group, the Profile Shifts grid is cleared so you can enter the shifts for that Profile Group.
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