Tandem Capacity Model (TCM) Manual

requirements, see the latest TCM softdoc. If necessary, follow the procedures described in the
application documentation to install the correct version of Windows, and Excel, or both.
2. To determine whether you need to download any other files, see the README file on the ISV.
Download any necessary files.
3. If you have an earlier version of TCM installed on your PC, delete the TCM application files
or put them in a different folder. Only one folder for TCM is allowed on a workstation.
4. Log on to the host as you would normally and make the TCM ISV your current subvolume by
entering:
1> VOLUME TCM-ISV-name
5. If you do not already have one, create a folder named TCM on your workstation and open
it.
For more information on how to create a folder, see the online help for your PC operating
system.
6. Download the file TCM7EXE as TCM7.EXE to the TCM folder.
If you have a network connection to the NonStop host system, you can copy a network file
by dragging the TCM7EXE file from the host drive to the PC drive.
If you use FTP to transfer the file, remember that TCM7EXE is a binary file.
7. Run TCM7.EXE to extract the files.
8. Create a shortcut to the TCM.XLSM file.
9. Optionally, use the Properties feature to change the associated icon to TCM.ICO, which resides
in the TCM distribution folder.
10. To save disk space, you can delete the file TCM.EXE. TCM does not need it.
11. To run TCM, double-click the TCM shortcut you created in Step 8.
Finding Version Information
You can use the Excel macro VPROC.XLAM to get the version information about any TCM file.
VPROC.XLAM is included in your TCM folder.
To use VPROC:
1. Run VPROC.XLAM.
2. Enter the name of the file.
3. VPROC responds with the version of TCM.
4. Click OK to close the dialog.
NOTE: TCM.EXE, TCM.XLS, VPROC.XLA are the corresponding files in TCM 2003.
Converting TCM Models From Earlier TCM Product Versions
NOTE:
• Models generated using previous versions of TCM cannot be imported to the new version of
TCM (from SPR TCM:T6945H01^AAY), as the Excel template itself differs.
• Models generated using the Excel 2003 versions of TCM cannot be used with the Excel 2007
version of TCM due to Excel incompatibility.
If you open a file created with an older product version of TCM, an alert message notifies you of
the product version mismatch. For the nonperformance models, TCM automatically converts the
file and then renames the older file by replacing the first letter of the file name with an underscore
( _ ).
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