2. SAMPLE PLANNING APPLICATIONS › 2.10 IMS Resource Planning › 2.10.1 Usage Guidelines

2.10.1 Usage Guidelines

 
The IMS Resource Planning Sample Application provides a
capacity planning database file with the database elements
you need for basic tracking, reporting, and forecasting of
the IMS workloads on your system.  The information for this
application is derived from the CA MICS IMS User Activity -
Full Function (IMSISU) and IMS System Activity (IMSISY)
files.

WORKLOAD GROUPS
 
In the IMS Resource Planning Sample Application, the
application workload group (CAPAPU) data element allows you
to group your individual IMS systems into logically similar
workload groups for more meaningful tracking and reporting.
For each defined workload, the application stores in the
capacity planning database file, measures such as transaction
counts, CPU time, database calls, and various quantifications
of response time.

Three methods are provided for specifying the manner in which
the IMS systems are grouped: 1) defining each IMS system as
its own workload group (CAPAPU = IMSID), 2) combining all IMS
systems (CAPAPU = NONE, no workload group) and 3) defining
your own SAS statements to create the workload group and set
the CAPAPU values accordingly.