Background tasks and deadlines

[Mike Pokraka]

Persn'ly I'd consider the wrong approach.

Deadlines aren't meant for this level of control. The timing resolution is
a 5 minutes accuracy at best, and background tasks error after 30 minutes
by default (at least last time I looked). If a background task takes that
long it should probably be asynch anyway.

Best off doing this in code - add a timer to whatever the task method does
- e.g. in a loop. Use SELECT ... PACKAGE SIZE nnn to break up a
long-running query - it would even improve DB performance if it means you
can stop a query gracefully whever it takes too long.

Otherwise I suppose one could create a 'Meta method' that submits a task
and monitors it in a WAIT UP TO... loop. Not pretty but an option.

Regards,
Mike


On Thu, February 2, 2012 5:52 pm, Sample, Rick wrote:
> Hey Wug'ers
>
> I have someone trying to use a deadline on a background task.
> Just complete the task if it takes too long.
>
> Been a while, so don't recall if this is possible.
> I thought of using CALL FUNCTION 'C160_HOLD_FOR_DEBUG'.
> but that won't work in WF-BATCH. (Unless someone knows how to take over a
> WF-BATCH via SM50?)
>
> Any way to set the task to complete in background task would be
> appreciated.
>
> Rick
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