AW: 2 year wait vs Batch Report

Fri May 6 00:19:02 EDT 2005

Hi Alon, It is better to have a seperate ABAP program which runs in back ground..that is better solution. other wise "workwait" will reduce the performance..

Cheers,
Sharath.

Thomas Lorenz <tlorenz at web-ls.de> wrote:
Hi Alon,

maybe it's my experience. I've never heard about a workflow which takes such a long time. 2 Years for one workitem is a sort of "workwait".
Also there are no technical reasons, I would separate the steps because there is so much time between them. 

Greetings,

Thomas 
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Hi Thomas,

I appreciate your input but I was wondering WHY you have this preference? Is it performance related? Or simply past experience?

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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu on behalf of Thomas Lorenz
Sent: Thu 5/5/2005 09:46
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: AW: 2 year wait vs Batch Report

Hi Alon,

i would prefer an additional ABAP Report to clear the field, which runs as Batch once a day. In my opinion it makes little sense to keep these Workflows for two years in "running" mode.

Greetings,

Thomas Lorenz

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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2005 14:53
An: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Betreff: RE: 2 year wait vs Batch Report

Hi Ram,

Thanks for the input. My problem with this approach is that I now have a batch job scheduled for each instance of the workflow (around 400 or so)... I guess it not a big deal but I am not sure I am seeing what the advantages of using this over the deadline monitoring report...

Alon Raskin
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu on behalf of Tiwari, Rammanohar
Sent: Thu 5/5/2005 08:49
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: 2 year wait vs Batch Report

I think there might be another option ( Not sure though ) :

Just after that step in your workflow put another step which will schedule a Batch Job (FM BP_JOB_CREATE)  with release date = sy-datum + 2 years.
I am not sure but system restart should not affect it. 

The Batch job will then trigger an event ( after two years )  to re-start the terminated workflow.

Thanks,
Ram

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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu]On Behalf Of Alon Raskin
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:26 PM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: 2 year wait vs Batch Report

Hi Everyone,

I would love to hear peoples opinions on this issue.

We have a situation where a workflow has to do update a field and then wait for 2 years before clearing that field. There are two possibilities to this issue.

1. Put in a 2 year wait step
2. Terminate the workflow and run a nightly batch job which would query some table and determine if 2 years have passed and then reset the field accordingly.

Currently I am leaning towards option 1 as I really don't see a difference in option 1 and option 2. Ultimately they are all just batch jobs which check dates and then do some processing. The volumes here are very low.

Your thoughts?

Alon Raskin
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