Opening a plan


Use the following procedure to open a plan.

Note

After launching the MLC Planning tool, the Actions pane displays a list of Recent Plans. As a shortcut, you can click any plan in the list to open the plan.

  1. From the Cost Management console, click the MLC Planning tool tab.
  2. In the Actions pane, click Open Plan.

    Tip

    Alternatively, you can click on any plan from the list of Recent Plans to open that plan directly.

    From the Open Plan dialog box, select the plan you want to open and click Open Plan.

    The MLC Planning tool opens the Plan as shown in the following figure:

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    Description

    Details

    1

    Information message

    Status of the evaluation summary report for the plan

    Click View details to open the Application Messaging Viewer dialog box to view the messages returned from the evaluation process.

    2

    Toolbar buttons

    You can use the toolbar buttons to perform the actions described in Table 1.

    3

    List of LPARs on the CPC

    You can click an LPAR to view LPAR level reports and charts.

    4

    List of CPCs

    You can click a CPC to view CPC level reports and charts.

    5

    Plan Name

    The name of the plan

    The icon indicates the type of plan as follows:

    • lpar and workload plan icon.PNG– LPAR and Workloads plan
    • job and stc plans icon.PNG– Job and STC plan

    6

    Plan Usage Month

    Month and year of plan

    Toolbar button

    Description

    gear icon.PNG

    View changes made to the plan

    evaluation plan icon.PNG

    View plan evaluation results

    close plan icon.PNG

    Close the plan

  3. Perform one of the following actions:

    • Click a CPC to view CPC level reports and charts.
    • Click an LPAR to view LPAR level reports and charts.

    The MLC Planning tool opens the selected object. Depending on which level you select, you can perform operations on the objects of the CPC level or LPAR level. For more information, see Overview-of-LPAR-and-Workload-plans.



 

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