Creating a trial long-term plan

When you want to study schedules in detail without changing the production plans, create trial plans. Trial plans are particularly useful:
  • During peak workload periods (for example, year end processing) to study the capacity problems that might occur at these times
  • When you bring in a new application that could cause changes to the workload
  • When overload problems are detected

Create trial long-term plans by selecting option 4 from the SELECTING LONG TERM PLAN BATCH JOB menu (EQQLBATP - Selecting long-term plan batch job ).

Figure 1. EQQLTEXP - Making a trial long-term plan 
 EQQLTEXP --------------- MAKING A TRIAL LONG TERM PLAN -----------------
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 Enter/Change data below:

 Current end           : 13/04/30

 NEW START DATE     ===> ________    New trial plan start date
                                     in format YY/MM/DD

 NEW END DATE       ===> ________    New trial plan end date
                                     in format YY/MM/DD

 EXTENSION LENGTH   ===> 28__        DDDD      Extend plan by

You can produce a trial long-term plan to check the validity of any database changes that you make. This process produces a print of the long-term plan in the same format as reports on the active long-term plan, but the long-term plan file is not updated.

Depending on the day and date information that you specify on the MAKING A TRIAL LONG TERM PLAN panel, HCL Workload Automation for Z produces one of three possible trial plans:
  • If you do not specify anything in the fields, HCL Workload Automation for Z produces a modify all trial plan. This simulates modifying the long-term plan, which is described in Modifying the long-term plan in batch.
  • If you specify a start date and an end date, HCL Workload Automation for Z simulates a long-term plan create, which is described in Creating the long-term plan.
  • If no start date is specified but an end date or an extension length is specified, HCL Workload Automation for Z simulates a long-term plan extend, which is described in Extending the long-term plan.