Category of Work - Teradata Workload Analyzer

Category of Work

Category of Work allocates weight based on importance of the workload; it is best suited for tactical or priority workloads. If Category of Work is selected, Teradata WA assigns AGs, RPs and default weights for each enforcement priority type as shown in Table 7. Therefore, it is only required that enforcement priorities are associated to workloads; the RPs and AGs are already set up. (Selecting the Category of Work approach removes any previously defined RPs or AGs.)

Table 7: Default AG and RP Weights for Priority based on Category of Work

Enforcement Priority	AG	AG Weight	RP	RP Weight	Global Relative Weight (GRWs)
Tactical	Tactical-AG	20	Tactical-RP	60	75%
Priority	Priority-AG	40	Standard-RP	20	16%
Normal	Normal-AG	20	Standard-RP	20	5%
Background	Backgnd-AG	10	Standard-RP	20	2%

When using the Category of Work approach, there are fewer active allocation groups, with those groups having similar relative weights. However, there will be a clear distinction between the Tactical and Priority enforcement priority settings.

Workloads defined with the Tactical or Priority enforcement priority must use the Category of Work approach. They cannot use the Subject Area Resource Division option.