mass start of workflows

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Karsten,
Yes the event queue is a simple and effective way of dealing with this
problem.
It is particularly good at dealing with volume spikes when starting
workflows.
 
The other mass processing option is work queues - read up the SAP Library
help
to see if they suit.
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (EBP, BBP, Ecommerce, Internet Transaction Server, Workflow)
SAP Australia
Email jocelyn.dart at sap.com <mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
Tel: +61 412 390 267
Fax: +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Karsten Ernst [mailto:ernst-consulting at gmx.net]
Sent: Wednesday, 24 April 2002 2:42 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: mass start of workflows
 
 
Hello all!
 
We need to start about 100 workflows (all the same definition or task but
different object references) at once. At once means we process some 1000
datasets within one COMMIT WORK (using PERFORM ON COMMIT)! So there should
be no COMMIT WORK from the CALL FUNCTION SWW_WI_START call.
 
I thought about an internal table, looping at this and starting the function
module for each dataset. But does this perform?
Do you know any solution create the workitems within the mass processing
just as we do that with the other datasets? Maybe with PERFORM ON COMMIT,
too?
 
Might it help to use the event-queue for that problem? Has anyone
experiences with calling the queue explicit?
 
Thank you for any tiny help you have.
 
Regards,
 
Karsten