Simulating Job Execution and Forecasting Resource Usage: Simulation and Forecasting Facility

Using statistics accumulated by the Statistics facility, the Simulation and Forecasting facility simulates the actions of the Control-M monitor under the conditions specified in simulation parameters.

The Simulation and Forecasting facility enables you to forecast anticipated job load for a specified time in the future, and to forecast the effects of possible changes to the system, such as the impact of:

• removing four tape drives
• increasing CPU power by 30%
• changing the time at which certain jobs are executed

The Simulation and Forecasting facility can improve the efficiency of your site. It can help with resource and configuration decisions, and it can help with the planning of workload scheduling to achieve maximum utilization of resources.