Hi Kelly,
I am not sure if I'm completely off track here, but it sounds like you need to produce a CSV file for an integration into some other app. If it is, then my story below will make sense and I agree with Rick. We have had to do an integration to SAP where the customer did not want to purchase the approved connector. So we created a staging db with view forms pointing to them which we push to and get data from. They pass files to us which are collected by a middle ware app and placed in a specific folder on the server. The middle ware then triggers a SQL DTS package which reads the file and imports it into the relevant table on the staging db. We then use AR System to collect the data and bring it into the ARSystem db for use by the customer service desk. The push works in the same way, just in reverse. We use text files but DTS can also do CSV. DTS can also be scheduled. Bit of a story but the point I wanted to make is that you can do it all on a db level and it's infinitely quicker. We too have flags that the DTS package uses to identify the records that it must take and once done, it flags the records as completed. I'm not sure of your setup but from the above you can see we are using SQL. Hope this helps. Regards, Basil Webster ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: 15 November 2006 17:25 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Large transactions ** Why not deal with this at the database level, which is so much more efficient? Rick On 11/15/06, Terry Bootsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have seen this issue many times, whether it has invoked via an escalation, filter, filter-side table loop or whatever. The only "scalable", and "reliable" method that I could come up with was to write an external ARSPerl script that was called via a scheduling tool (Unix or windows depends upon which tool you would use) and would query all entries that needed to be modified and modify each of them individually, keeping track of the total number to be modified and handling exceptions if they occurred along the way. HTH Terry On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:00:07 -0700 Chris Woyton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've hit this wall many times, and how you handle it is >largely dependant on > where the bottleneck lies. > > Have you logged the transaction to see if your DB is >hanging on the query > for the View Form, or your workflow during Filter >processing, or...? > > Chris Woyton > > -----Original Message----- >From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[email protected] ]On Behalf Of Kelly Logan > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Large transactions > > > Hello All, > > I am looking at alternatives to a current integration >process that > uses external .CSV files and Remedy Import called by >runmacro. (We > have had some issues with file permissions and >runmacro.) > > I have set up a View form to a table with the data and >added some > display only fields to it for translation and workflow, >the principal > one being a zTmpProcess field (Yes/No). I have one >filter that pushes > a value of "Yes" to this field on the form for all >entries (~40,000), > and a set of filters that fire off of Modify to >translate some of the > information (set other temp fields to mapped values) >before pushing it > to SHR:People. > > The process works fine when I run it manually for 1,000 >or so entries, > but when I let the workflow kick off a change to all >40K, I get a > database timeout. I'm considering some chunking >strategies like using > an SQL statement to set another flag and loop through, >processing > 1,000 at a time, but I thought I'd check to see if >anyone else has > done something similar, or if there's a simpler strategy >that may be > eluding me at the moment. > > Thanks in advance for your time, > > Kelly Logan > Cybernetic Solutions, Inc. > > ________________________________________________________________________ ____ > ___ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at > www.arslist.org <http://www.arslist.org> ARSlist:"Where the > Answers Are" __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
