Creating simulation analysis scenarios

You can create simulation analysis scenarios and store them in the IBM® Business Process Manager library. When you define a simulation analysis scenario, you provide information that the Optimizer requires, such as the processes to include in the simulation, the simulation properties, and values (simulation profile) for each process.

To create simulation analysis scenarios:

1. Open the Process Designer desktop editor.
2. Open a process application in the Designer view.
3. Expand Processes and select Simulation Analysis Scenario from the list of components.
4. Enter a name for the scenario and click Finish.
5. In the Scenarios editor, provide the following information:

   Window area	Field or control	Description
   Common	Documentation	Provide a description in this field.
   Simulation Data Filters	Start Time	Use the calendar and clock counter to indicate a start time for the scenario.
   	Limit running time	Click this option if you want to limit the simulated running time for the processes included in the analysis. If so, provide the running time in days, hours, and minutes.
   	Limit process instances	Click this option if you want to limit the number of process instances that the simulation runs. If so, select the process and then provide the number of instances.
   	Processes Apps to Include in Analysis	To choose the process applications that you want from the IBM BPM repository, click Add (IBM BPM lists the process applications that you have read access to). Choose the process applications that contain the processes that you want to analyze. Be sure to select the correct snapshot (version) to analyze. Select (Current) to analyze the current working version. To remove a process application, click the application name and then click Remove. Note: If you select multiple snapshots (versions) to analyze, the first version that is listed in the table determines the team definition used. Use the Up and Down buttons to change the order of the process applications if you know you want to use the team definition from a different version for your scenario.
   	Processes to Include in Analysis	To choose the processes that you want to analyze, click Add. (IBM BPM lists the BPDs that are in the selected process applications.) If the Simulation Profile associated with the process that you choose is not the profile that you want, click the name of the profile in the right column, to choose another profile. If no profiles are defined, only the Default profile is available. To remove a process, click the process name and then click Remove.
   Team Overrides	Add/Remove	Click Add to choose one or more of the teams from the selected process applications. Then, change the values that you want to override, such as the capacity, cost per hour. (In the Capacity column you can type +value or -value to increase or decrease the capacity by some participants. You can also type just a value to specify an absolute capacity such as 10.) With this table, you can run a scenario with different settings for your participants without changing the actual team definitions, which can help you simulate different workloads. To remove overrides, click a team name and then click Remove. Note: If you specify Team Overrides for multiple teams and a member belongs to one or more of those teams, that member uses the simulation overrides specified for the first team in the table. To change the order of the teams in the Team Overrides table, use the Up and Down buttons.