Working with Job and STC plans

While working with a Job and STC plan, you can adjust the LPAR level view as follows:

• Add individual workloads in the charting area
• Show the Defined Capacity for the LPAR
• Change the defined capacity for the LPAR
• Show a chart of the R4HA for the LPAR
• Show the individual peak MSU utilizations for the MLC products on this LPAR

These views are controlled through identical operations, as described in Working-with-a-plan-at-the-LPAR-level.

During the following procedure and before you can perform Job/STC operations, you will generate a report of the top 50 jobs that contributed to the CPC peak or any one of the MLC product peaks.

The report can be generated from all workloads on the LPAR or from a selection of workloads that you determine. If you want to generate a list of jobs from a selection of workloads, you must first add the workloads to the charting area.

To generate and view a Job/STC Items report

1. Open an existing Job/STC plan or create a new Job/STC plan.For more information, see the following:
   • Opening-a-plan
   • Creating-plans

2. From the Actions pane, click the LPAR with which you want to work.The selected LPAR object opens in the viewer as shown in the following figure:

   

   The charting area shows a gray chart of the R4HA for the month, indicating the CPC peak MSU utilization with a red dot and the product peak utilizations for MLC products with black dots. If available for the selected LPAR, a black chart for the Defined Capacity is also displayed.

   You can hover over the CPC peak or any product peak to display information about the MLC product, the MSU utilization, and the date and hour when the peak occurred.

3. (optional) If you want to change the view from showing all of the R4HA peaks for individual MLC products, click Select one or more MLC products to view their R4HA peak on the LPAR chart.The Available MLC Products dialog displays as shown in the following figure:

   

   MLC products that contributed to the peak R4HA for the month are indicated with a red dot in the CPC R4HA First Peak column.

4. In the dialog, perform the following actions:
   1. From the list of MLC products, deselect any MLC products to remove the R4HA peak on the LPAR chart.

   2. When finished with your selections, click Accept.The Available MLC products dialog closes and the LPAR chart displays only the Product Peaks for the selected MLC products.

      Tip

      Viewing the individual peaks of MLC products can assist in your analysis, especially when you plan to perform Job/STC Operations to jobs that do not pertain to the peak R4HA for the LPAR.

5. Click the following link: Click here to perform Job and STC What-If operations.The peak interval query selection panel displays as shown in the following figure:

   

   Use the drop-down box to select the CPC peak or any one of the MLC product peaks to use for the Job/STC query.

   The specification of a peak determines the query interval. The query interval is the R4HA interval that is used to generate the Job/STC Items report.

6. Perform one of the following actions:

   • To generate and view a Job/STC Items report for all workloads, use the Click here for Job and STC What-If Operations for all workloads link.

   • To generate and view a Job/STC Items report from selected workloads, use the list of workloads and their R4HA MSU Utilization data above the charting area to select the workloads you want to include in the query, and then use the Click here for Job and STC What-If Operations for selected workloads link.

     When you select a workload, its colored MSU utilization chart is added to the charting area. You can use this chart to determine whether the workload contributed to the peak R4HA for the CPC or for individual MLC products.

     The selection of workloads affects the job set that is evaluated in the query. The subsequent list of the top 50 jobs that contributed to the specified peak will vary depending on your selections. As you add workloads, you subsequently add all of the jobs that are executed in these workloads for evaluation and consideration when generating the list.

     After you have made your selection of workloads, the entire set of jobs from the selected workloads will be analyzed for their contribution to the specified peak and for inclusion in the list of the top 50 Job/STC Items. You can widen or narrow the set of jobs to be included in the list by your selection of workloads.

     Tip

     When you select a workload, its MSU utilization is added to the charting area. By comparing an individual workload's contribution to the peak utilization for the entire LPAR (indicated by the red dot) or for individual MLC products (indicated by the black dots), you can determine if this workload contributed significant MSU utilization to the peak R4HA.

     When you have identified the workloads that contributed to the peak, by viewing a report of the top 50 jobs that consumed this workload utilization, you can identify the jobs that contributed to the peak and were a major factor in the MLC product cost.

   After you have made your selections and clicked on the link, Cost Analyzer generates and displays a Job/STC Items report based on your selections. The following figure shows a sample Job/STC Items report.

   Figure: Sample Job/STC Items report