The process

Implementing the best Capacity on Demand solution to satisfy your requirements involves six steps:

  1. Planning to determine your capacity needs
  2. Enabling your machines to be ready for any upgrade
  3. Ordering your upgrade records to have a solution readily available to use
  4. Retrieving the required upgrade records
  5. Installing the required upgrade records
  6. Activating the specific upgrade processors.

Planning through Activating temporary upgrade records provide details on each of these steps.

In addition, Deactivating temporary capacity and Deleting temporary Capacity on Demand records provide information on deactivating capacity upgrades and deleting temporary records.

Note: This document will focus on using the CIU application through Resource Link® to order permanent and temporary upgrades and the Support Element function through the HMC to retrieve, install, activate, and deactivate permanent and temporary upgrades.