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2.5 Capacity Planner Interface

As an aid to rapid and effective workload forecasting of CICS
data, the CA MICS Capacity Planner provides an interface to
the CICS Analyzer that contains the necessary elements for
CICS tracking and reporting.

Known as the CICS Planning Standard Application, this
interface provides a capacity planning data base file with
the data elements you need for basic tracking, reporting, and
forecasting of the CICS workload.  It uses the application
unit features of the CICS Analyzer to group the individual
CICS systems into logically similar workload groups for more
meaningful tracking and reporting.  The three methods for
grouping CICS system are:

    o  defining each CICS system as its own workload group,
    o  combining all CICS systems (no workload group), or
    o  defining customized workload groupings.

Overall, the interface of the CICS Analyzer with the
Capacity Planner provides a set of tools for addressing what
would otherwise be a more time-consuming and complex task.