Tandem Capacity Model (TCM) Manual

5. Click OK. TCM Expert generates a default Transaction Count table and Apportionment Weights
table and displays the newly generated “Transaction Count Table” (page 118).
6. Examine the default Transaction Count table. If you want to make changes:
a. Select Options > Unprotect Admin Fields.
b. Enter the corrected values.
c. Select Options > Protect Admin Fields.
7. Examine the default Apportionment Weights table. To navigate to that table, select Find >
Apportionment Weights Table.
TCM displays the default “Workload Apportionment Weights Table” (page 116).
8. You might want to override the default Expert Flag for process categories for which you have
specific application knowledge and enter your own numbers. The Expert Flag indicates whether
TCM Expert should generate a value for the process category. The default for the TMF (T),
Disk (D), Fixed (F), and Ignore (Z) process categories is N (no). The default is also N for server
categories whose names exactly match the transaction names. The default value for all other
process categories is Y.
If you want to override Expert’s calculations for any category marked with a Y (yes):
a. Select Options > Unprotect Admin Fields. The modifiable fields are dimmed.
b. Type an N in the Expert Flag column of the category you want to override and enter the
values you believe are correct in the transaction columns.
c. Select Options > Protect Admin Fields.
Generating Expert Apportionment Weights
To use TCM Expert to generate an Apportionment Weights 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. Log on as an administrator or super user. For more information about this step, see “Changing
Authorization Levels” (page 69).
4. Select Expert > Generate Expert Apportionment Weights.
The Generate Expert Apportionment Weights dialog box appears.
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