2. SAMPLE PLANNING APPLICATIONS › 2.5 XCF Resource Planning › 2.5.1 Usage Guidelines

2.5.1 Usage Guidelines

 
The XCF Resource Planning Sample application provides a
capacity planning database file with the database elements
you need for basic tracking, reporting, and forecasting of
XCF usage on your MVS systems.  The information for this
application is derived from either the DETAIL, DAYS, WEEKS,
or MONTHS timespan of the CA MICS Cross-System Coupling
Facility (SCPXCM) file.
 
The XCF Resource Planning Sample application permits your
installation to track and forecast XCF signalling between MVS
images at a high level of summarization (that is, at the
SYSID and ZONE, HOUR or DAYNAME level) for XCF members.
Because the data is derived from the SCPXCM file, this sample
application provides information about individual XCF member
signalling.

XCF WORKLOADS
 
The XCF Resource Planning Sample Application uses five CAPAPU
elements in order to keep the granularity of the capacity
database at the XCF member level.  These five CAPAPU elements
are defined below.  In addition to these five keys, the file
is also summarized by the SYSID that did the RMF recording.
 
     CAPAPU  -  SYSPLEX Identifier (SYSPLEX)
     CAPAPU2 -  XCF System Name (XCFSYSNM)
     CAPAPU3 -  XCF Group Name (XCMGROUP)
     CAPAPU4 -  XCF Member Name (XCMEMBER)
     CAPAPU5 -  Member Residency (XCMMBRES)
 
 
The XCF Resource Planning Sample Application allows you to
modify the setting of these CAPAPU fields by using the CAPAPU
exit.  Using this exit is optional, and only needed if you
want to modify the level of granularity of the XCF capacity
planning database.