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1.5.6 Capacity Planning Facilities Administration

The Capacity Planning Facilities Administration process is
used to maintain the shared capacity planning file catalog
and its corresponding history files and forecast files.  A
private file catalog is maintained for each user, and a
single shared file catalog is maintained for access by all
users.  This Capacity Planning Facilities Administration
process is used to add capacity planning files to the shared
catalog, thereby making them available to all users.  Files
may be copied to the shared catalog from any user's private
catalog.  Capacity Planning Facilities Administration can
also be used to delete shared capacity planning files which
are no longer required.

The Capacity Planning Facilities Administration process is
also used to update shared capacity planning files.  Shared
files are updated through the same process as private files,
except that access to this process must be done through
Capacity Planning Facilities Administration.

In order to ensure control of any changes to this shared
facility, only those who have been authorized are permitted
to make changes to the shared catalog and its associated
history files and forecast files.  Changes requiring this
authorization include additions to the shared catalog,
deletions from it, and updates to files in the shared
catalog.  All such changes must be made using Capacity
Planning Facilities Administration.  The authorization
procedure is described in Section 4.4.3 of the PIOM.

All users of the CA MICS Capacity Planner can make use of
shared capacity files in their own analyses, since such use
will not change the shared files.  Any forecast saved as a
result of such analyses will be saved in the user's private
catalog and marked as a "Forecast only" file.

The following topics are addressed in this section:

 1 - Using the Facilities Administration Screen
 2 - Inserting a File Definition
 3 - Deleting a File Definition
 4 - Updating a Shared Capacity Planning File