Chapter 12: Concurrent Managers and Concurrent Programs

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Overview

For the majority of the time that Oracle E-Business Suite spends running, it is running in transactional mode. This means that there are short bursts of operations occurring at regular intervals. But there are some things that businesses do that occur in a batch type environment. These batch jobs are typically longer running processes that are quite often data intensive in nature.

What is Oracle's facility for running the data intensive batch processes?

Oracle provides an extremely complex tool to handle running batch processes as well as scheduling monitoring and reporting on those batch processes. The mechanism that Oracle provides is the Concurrent Manager.

End users often take a dim view of Concurrent Managers and Concurrent Processing because they are used to the instantaneous response that they get from the transaction processing parts of the system. They will often refresh the concurrent job screen every few seconds to see if their job has run. The perception frequently is that a job that crunches numbers to populate a data rich report should finish as rapidly as the screen from which they have queried up a purchase order or inventory item. Managing the users' expectations is often as difficult as managing the entire Oracle E-Business Suite of products.

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