Workitem requested start

[Zmudzin,Tomasz,VEVEY,GL-IS/IT]

"Also it takes 59 seconds to complete the job. I guess, the
requested start time triggers the job and the actual start is at the end of
the job. So may be changing it to 8 minutes should work."
 
but when your systems gets cluttered, the longer response times will make (8
min+59 seconds) last longer :-) so your deadline will get processed on the
next run (i.e. not in 9, but ~17 minutes).
 
Come on, I cannot believe setting 10 min deadlines is realistic. And if it
is a business requirement -- the deadline job should anyway run more often
than the deadline interval.
 
Kind regards,
Tomasz
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Balasubramaniam, Swaminathan [mailto:SBalasubramaniam at medrad.com]
Sent: Tuesday,20. May 2003 15:20
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Workitem requested start
 
 
Mike,
I got it now. The job in our case is scheduled as Adhoc. When I look for
today, it seems like the job runs every 2 hours because of the other step I
have for medium Notifications to set reminders every 2 hours.
However, when I look at yesterday's job log, the job is scheduled more
frequently. Also it takes 59 seconds to complete the job. I guess, the
requested start time triggers the job and the actual start is at the end of
the job. So may be changing it to 8 minutes should work. Please let me know
if you guys have any other thought.
 
Thanks for all your help.
Swami
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Pokraka [mailto:workflow at quirky.me.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 9:15 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Workitem requested start
 
 
So... jsut set it to 8 minutes!
On a more serious note, your deadline granularity is determined by the
scheduling of the monitor job SWWDHEX. If it runs ad hoc - i.e. when a
deadline is due, then you'd be as accurate as your SAP scheduler can be -
i.e. you may have a few seconds delay, or perhaps more f no bg processes are
available.
If it's scheduled periodically - e.g. every 5 minutes, then you can only be
accurate to witin 5 minutes. If you have too many deadlines (as this type of
sceanrio might suggest), then the first option becomes unfeasible as you may
end up scheduling too many jobs - which may result in the minutes' delay you
see - and you should rather go with periodic scheduling anyway.
 
HTH
Cheers
Mike
 
 
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 09:02:15AM -0400, Balasubramaniam, Swaminathan
wrote:
> All,
> I have a step that has a requested start of nine minutes after the Work
item
> is created. However, the actual start is always 10 minutes. When I look in
> the log, it says requested start is 9 minutes after the work item creation
> time but the actual start is 10 minutes after the creation time. Is 10
> minutes the minimum delay I can have or am I doing anything wrong. I am on
a
> 46B system.
>
>
> Thanks
> Swami