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3.5 Business Element Files

 
Historically, one of the most difficult problems that the
Capacity Planner encounters is the forecasting of the
resource requirements of specific applications.  A popular
approach has been to use business element data (sometimes
called natural forecast units or key volume indicators) to
develop relationships between the volume of business activity
in the sector using the application and the amount of
resource consumption.
 
The CA MICS Capacity Planner supports both the collection and
maintenance of business element data and the analysis of
business activity and resource consumption relationships
between these indicators.
 
This section describes how to use the CA MICS Capacity
Planner to create user-defined business element files.  You
are responsible for defining the data elements that you wish
to include in your database file and for executing the data
base load job whenever appropriate.
 
The following sections describe the screens that control this
facility:
 
 1 - Usage Guidelines
 2 - Screen Operation