Opening a plan

Use the following procedure to open a plan.

Note

After launching the 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.

From the Cost Analyzer console, click the Planning tool tab.
From 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, select the plan you want to open and click Open Plan.

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

Figure: Sample Plan

Plan legend

#	Description	Details
1	Toolbar buttons	You can use the toolbar buttons to perform the actions described in Table 1:
2	Information message	Status of the evaluation summary report for the plan You can click on this message to open the evaluation summary report for the plan.
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	Hovering over the plan name displays a tooltip of the plan details
6	Plan Usage Month	Month and year of plan

Table: Planning tool toolbar buttons

Toolbar button	Description
	View changes made to the plan
	View plan evaluation results
	Close the plan

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 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.

Opening a plan

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