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5.3.1 Historical Observations Report


The Historical Observations Report provides a summary of the
historical values contained in the Capacity Planning database
file.  You define the structure of this report using the
Profile and Trending Analysis control screen shown in Figure
5-6.

While the principal application of these reports is intended
to be the presentation of historical data, you can also use
them to examine the behavior of the data before applying the
more detailed statistical analysis procedures provided in the
remaining chapters.

Figure 5-1 shows a sample Historical Observations Report. The
following information is shown:

SYSID:        The SYSID specified by the SYSID control
              parameter.

ZONE:         The ZONE specified by the LVL control
              parameter.

For each historical observation, the following data elements
appear in the report columns:

MONTH:        The MONTH and YEAR of the historical
              observation.  If you specify the WEEKS timespan
              when the Capacity Planning database file is
              created, then the title for this column is WEEK
              ENDING and the week ending dates appear in the
              report.  If you specify the DAYS timespan when
              the Capacity Planning database file is created,
              then the title for this column is DAY ENDING
              and the day ending dates appear in the report.

You specify the remaining columns of the report through
parameters on the Profile and Trending Analysis control
screen.  For example, the first column of the report shown in
Figure 5-1 is:

CHANNEL 1     The historical observations for the average
BUSY (%):     monthly channel 1 busy values computed for ZONE
              1.

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |SYSID: TSO1| | | | EXTENDED EXAMPLE --- MONTHLY HISTORICAL OBSERVATIONS | |ZONE: 1 | | |-----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | CHANNEL 1 | CHANNEL 2 | CHANNEL 3 | CHANNEL 4 | CHANNEL 5 | | | | MONTH | BUSY (%) | BUSY (%) | BUSY (%) | BUSY (%) | BUSY (%) | | | |-----------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | SEP 97 | 5.4 | 18.9 | 18.8 | 7.3 | 15.8 | | | | OCT 97 | 5.5 | 19.5 | 19.6 | 7.4 | 14.8 | | | | NOV 97 | 6.4 | 19.8 | 20.2 | 10.0 | 15.9 | | | | DEC 97 | 5.3 | 18.0 | 18.6 | 8.9 | 14.6 | | | | JAN 98 | 6.1 | 19.0 | 19.4 | 9.0 | 15.7 | | | | FEB 98 | 6.3 | 23.1 | 18.8 | 11.1 | 16.2 | | | | MAR 98 | 5.5 | 19.7 | 16.9 | 9.5 | 14.9 | | | | APR 98 | 4.8 | 18.0 | 15.2 | 7.7 | 14.3 | | | | MAY 98 | 4.6 | 17.8 | 15.7 | 8.2 | 14.5 | | | | JUN 98 | 5.0 | 17.6 | 15.8 | 9.3 | 15.1 | | | | JUL 98 | 6.9 | 21.0 | 18.6 | 11.7 | 17.8 | | | | AUG 98 | 8.6 | 30.9 | 15.0 | 10.7 | 15.4 | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


 Figure 5-1.  Historical Observations Report