Incremental Commitments for SQIs in a Deal

Until now, you were able to specify absolute and default commitments for the SQIs in a deal. Now, in addition, you can specify incremental commitments for the SQIs in a deal. A new option type named Service Quantity Update Type is introduced in the C1-DEAL feature configuration.

It is used to indicate whether you want to specify absolute or incremental commitments for the SQIs in the Pricing and Commitments screen. The valid values are:

  • AB - Used when you want to specify absolute commitments for the SQIs in a deal.

  • AR - Used when you want to specify an incremental value with respect to the original volume for the SQIs in a deal. The system will then derive the commitments by adding the specified value to the original volume.

  • PR - Used when you want to specify an incremental value with respect to the proposed commitments for the SQIs in a deal. The system will then derive the revised commitments by adding the specified value to the proposed commitments.

Let us understand this with the help of an example.

Action Service Quantity Update Type Original Service Quantity Proposed Service Quantity Specified Service Quantity Revised Proposed Service Quantity
ADD AB 100 100 150 150
UPD AB 200 250 300 300
ADD AR 100 100 100 100+100=200
UPD AR 150 150 50 150+50=200
ADD PR 125 125 100 125+100=225
UPD PR 100 225 75 225+75=300

The above table lists various scenarios which indicate how the proposed commitments are calculated based on the value specified in the Service Quantity Update Type option type of the C1-DEAL feature configuration.

If you do not set this option type, the system, by default, sets it to AB. This option type is not only referred while adding commitments for a price item and parameters combination from the user interface, but is also referred when the value for the sqiUpdateTypeFlg tag is not received while adding or updating commitments through an inbound web service.