Working with shift profiles

This section describes the Manage Shift Profiles option in the Administration Tools. The Manage Shift Profiles option divides the week 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 the hours of a typical week into shifts that represent different levels of activity.

Important

You need to be a BMC AMI Capacity Reporting product administrator to access the Manage Shift Profiles option.

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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

Important

A week contains 168 hours (7x24=168).
Each hour of each day can belong to only one shift.
The shifts do not need to be equal in size or contiguous. However, all shifts together must cover the entire 168-hour week.

In the following example, the week has been divided into four distinct shifts:

Example

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 Sysplex groups to create Shifts for certain SMFIDs or Sysplexes.
Fox example, production batch processing might take place on certain SMFIDs or Sysplexes during the overnight hours from 12 A.M. to 5 A.M. And, the online processing might take place on certain SMFIDs during the day from 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. Using Sysplex groups, you can set up shifts for only those Sysplex group identifiers that are specified for the Sysplex group. When you add a Sysplex group, the Shifts grid is cleared so you can enter the shifts for that Sysplex group.

The Add Shift Profile or Modify Shift Profile dialog box includes the following:

The legends are as follows:

	Field	Description
1	Profile Name	Name of the shift profile If you are creating a DSN-specific profile, a suggested profile name is given which you can change. If you are using a default shift profile, the Select Template option is also available to you. The Select Template list includes the out-of-the-box shift profile templates and the shift profiles that you created and saved in the previous version.
2	SYSPLEX	List of Sysplex You can select a Sysplex from the suggested list or create a customized one using the option. Important If you select the default group (that is, selecting a BMC out-of-the-box shift profile ), you can't specify SMFIDs.
3	SMFIDs	List of SMFIDs included in a selected Sysplex You can modify a Sysplex Group using the option. You can delete a SMFID by clicking next to it. Important If you have selected a default shift profile, all unallocated SMFIDs in your data are automatically included in it. After making the changes, click Accept.
4	Shifts	List of Shifts You can create new shifts using option. You can also modify and delete a shift.
5	Find	Find a shift from the grid and modify
6	Eraser	Erase a shift from the grid
7	Regenerate For <sysplexname>	Regenerate a selected Sysplex This option is available only when you modify a SMFID. You can regenerate the updated Sysplex.
8	Add Shift Profile/ Modify Shift Profile	Saves the created or modified shift profile

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