Viewing the Plan Evaluation Summary Report
You can view the changes executed on a CPC, LPAR or workload in a plan. Whenever you make changes to objects within a plan, you can view the results in the Plan Evaluation Summary Report.
To view the Plan Evaluation Summary Report
- Use either of the following methods to access the report:
- In the Actions pane, click the View plan evaluation results button (
). - After executing a change in a plan, click Yes when prompted to view the evaluation results.
The Planning tool opens a Plan Evaluation Summary Report with rows that list MLC Products and columns that display relevant data as shown in the following figure:
Figure: Sample Plan Evaluation Summary Report
If the data in a column can be sorted, when you hover the mouse over the column header, the header is highlighted.
The columns contain data similar to the Monthly Summary Report. For a description of each column, see Quick-tour-of-the-Monthly-Summary-Report.
The following table describes the columns that are unique to this report:
Table: Plan Evaluation Summary Report columns
Column header | Description |
|---|---|
Cost Change | The change in cost resulting from the changes made to the plan |
Old R4HA First Peak (MSU) | R4HA value in the cost model that was used to build this plan The old value designates the starting value before the changes were executed. |
Old R4HA First Peak Date | Date and time of the old R4HA Peak (MSU) |
The Cost Change column details any change to the cost of the MLC Product caused by the LPAR move. A cost reduction is indicated by a green triangle ( 
) and the amount of the gain. A cost increase is indicated by a red triangle ( 
) and the amount of the loss.
You can scroll to the bottom of the report to view a tally of the gain, loss, and difference.
To export the Plan Evaluation Summary Report to a PDF
- Export the Plan Evaluation Summary Report by clicking the
icon and clicking Export to PDF button.A dialog indicates that the PDF generation was successful. You can open to view the PDF or save the PDF to your local computer. - When finished, close the Plan Evaluation Summary Report.