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Workload Forecasting

The Workload Forecast facility provides several important functions. The Workload Forecast facility lets you:

• Project the scheduled workload for a given period.
• Verify newly defined schedules.
• Produce a hardcopy checklist of scheduled tasks in a worksheet format.

Criteria available for selecting data to be forecasted provide great flexibility in tailoring a forecast to meet specific needs.

In addition to the online forecasting facility, the Jobflow Illustrator forecasting facility can execute in a batch mode outside of the online environment and provides several features that the online forecasting tool does not provide:

• In addition to triggers, the forecasted flow reflects job dependencies such as other jobs and data sets.
• Nice visuals are available through the Microsoft Visio™ interface.
• Permits job additions or job deletions to see what effect occurs on the workload.