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Overview of Job and STC plans

This section describes in detail how to perform actions in a Job and STC plan against your monthly historical models that demonstrate the effects of changes to your system.

Through the exercises in a Job and STC plan, you can enact modifications to the existing batch workload configurations and view the effect on the monthly costs. Since MLC products are priced based on the R4HA, a Job and STC plan can show you configurations that reduce MSU utilizations during the critical 4-hour peak interval that is used to determine costs.

Within any Job and STC plan that you create, you can:

  • Generate and view Job/STC Items list
  • Perform any of the following operations to affect the activity of a job or group of jobs:

    • Shift the activity to a different time interval

      By shifting the time when batch jobs are performed on an LPAR, you can discover ways to reduce the contribution to peak values.

    • Scale the activity

      By utilizing scaling, you can model any anticipated changes to job activity to examine the effect on the MLC product costs.

    • Move the activity to a different LPAR
    • Delete the activity

By providing the means to move and delete jobs, you can also explore options to discover the most cost-efficient structure for the batch jobs that are executed on your systems.

When performing any of the Job/STC operations, a charting area lets you compare the current activity with a preview of the activity changes before you execute the changes in the plan. Using these charts can assist you in selecting effective operations to perform.

After you are satisfied with the operations you have performed, you can apply the changes to view a report that shows how costs are affected. When you apply the operations to the job activity, the MLC Planning tool evaluates the changes, recalculates the effect to the MSU utilization, and makes the results available in the Plan Evaluation Summary Report. By viewing the report, you can examine the results of the changes to the cost. For more information, see Viewing-the-Plan-Evaluation-Summary-Report.

BMC AMI Cost Management records any changes made to the Job and STC plan sequentially. At any time, you can view a list of the changes made to the plan. If you want to undo any action that was executed, you can use the viewer to remove the change. For more information, see Viewing-and-removing-plan-changes.

Tips

When performing exercises in a Job and STC plan, the following rules apply:

  • After applying changes to any job or group of jobs on an LPAR, you cannot perform additional operations to the affected jobs.
  • To ensure accurate results in your plans, you should limit the number of operations that you apply to a list of Job/STC Items because multiple actions against LPARs are not recommended.

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