Tandem Capacity Model (TCM) Manual

1. Select TCM Expert from the “TCM Initial Menu” (page 66).
The Specify Custom Directory dialog box appears.
2. Specify the custom folder location of your CSV files.
Highlight the custom folder of your CSV files and double-click the custom folder name. When
you double-click the name, TCM updates this name on the custom folder field of the dialog
box and also makes this the location of your working session.
3. Click OK to close the dialog box.
You can now begin using TCM Expert.
Creating a Default Transaction Count Table and Workload Apportionment
Weights Table
To create a default Transaction Count table:
1. Select TCM Expert from the “TCM Initial Menu” (page 66).
The Specify Custom Directory dialog box appears.
2. Specify a custom folder and click OK.
3. If you do not have an existing Apportionment Weights table or Transaction Count table, select
Expert > Create Default Transaction Count Table.
A dialog box similar to the following appears:
TCM Expert provides a default Transaction Count table name and selects a CSV file from
which to generate the default table.
Click OK to accept the defaults or select a different name and CSV file.
4. If you have a type T (TMF) process category defined in the selected CSV file, the Create Default
Apportionment Tables Audited Transaction dialog box appears.
Using your knowledge of the application, you can select which transactions are audited (or
not audited) by placing them in the appropriate list. When the default Apportionment Weights
table is created, audited transactions will be indicated by a 1 for any type T process category.
Unaudited transactions are indicated by a 0.
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