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6.6.1.2 Control Parameters


Figure 6-6 shows the screen containing the control parameters
that are provided to Simple Regression Analysis.

/------------------------  Simple Regression Analysis  -------------------------\
| Command ===>                                                                  |
|                                                                               |
|Composing CA MICS Inquiry:  CHNSMR - Simple Regression of Channel Util.        |
|                                                                               |
|Report title ===> EXTENDED EXAMPLE                                             |
|                                                                               |
|Selection criteria:                                                            |
|                 Input file ===> CHN                                           |
|                 Start date ===> _________ (ddmonyyyy)                         |
|                      SYSID ===> TSO1                                          |
|                       Zone ===> _________                                     |
|                 No. months ===> ____      (1-9999)                            |
|      Specify CAPAPU Values ===> _         (Y/N)                               |
|                                                                               |
|Plot title                  ===> CHANNEL 1SIO COUNT VS MONTH_____________      |
|Forecast data element       ===> CHAN1CNT                                      |
|Axis label                  ===> CHANNEL 1 SIO COUNT                           |
|Forecast length (weeks)     ===>  6        (1-9999)                            |
|                                                                               |
|Plot type                   ===> PRINTER   (COLOR/PRINTER)                     |
|Specify color graphics parms===> N         (Y/N/R)                             |
|  Color graphics format set ===> PENPLOT                                       |
|                                                                               |
\------------------------------------------------------------------------------/

 Figure 6-6.  Extended Example Control Parameters

Report title: The title that appears on the resulting graph.

Input file:   The CHN resource element file that was
              originally defined in the extended example in
              Section 3.3.3.1 of this guide.

Start date    The start date for date range selection.
              Since neither a start date nor a number of
              days, weeks or months are specified for this
              analysis, no date range selection is applied to
              the historical observations from the CHN
              resource element file.

SYSID:        Historical observations only for SYSID TSO1.

Zone:         The summary level selection criteria for the
              analysis.  Since the CHN resource element file
              was defined in Section 3.3.3.1 at the ZONE
              summary level, this parameter specifies that
              only historical observations for ZONE 1 are
              included in the analysis.

No. months:   The maximum number of days, weeks, or months
              that will be included in the analysis.

 Specify      Put a Y in this field to specify the CAPAPU
 CAPAPU       value to be included in the analysis. The
 values:      CAPAPU value is specified on the CAPAPU
              Selection Values screen, shown in Figure 6-4,
              that appears if you enter a Y in this field.
              You may specify it only if the capacity
              planning database file is defined as containing
              the CAPAPU data element.

Plot Title:   An optional second title line for the reports
              if needed.  This is a 40-character field and
              no double quotes (") may appear within the
              body of the title.

Forecast      The name of the data element (CHAN1CNT) in the
data          capacity planning resource file which contains
element:      SIO counts for channel 1.

Axis label:   The label for the X-axis.  Since the axis label
              was left blank, the online facility
              automatically filled it with the label of the
              data element, CHANNEL 1 SIO COUNT.

Forecast      The length of the forecast observation.  Six is
length:       selected as a conservative number of estimates
              to be made from the 12 historical observations
              that are contained in the CHN resource element
              file.

Plot type:    The specification for the type of plot to be
              used.  For this example, PRINTER is selected
              for a line printer plot.

Executing the analysis produces the plot report for the
Channel 1 SIO counts shown in Section 6.6.1.3.

By modifying screen entries, then executing each
modification, it is possible to quickly request forecasts of
SIO counts and channel busy for each of the channels.  These
forecasts produce reports similar in format to the one shown,
so they will not be presented here.