Tool to update and add Rate Factors

At one of client implementation, users had a large number of updates to rate factors every week and have a large number of rate factor sources

Here’s a a simple way to update rate factors.   Comment in this post if you need a copy of this ..

Creating custom queues and Reassigning Topic groups for Performance

 

When you have a huge list of tasks running on the default queues, you might have some backlog / performance problems. In the example  below, we have Allocations running on shipments and is backlog on the default AgentPlanning queue. It will cause other tasks triggered on queue in backlog and has to wait..

 

 

to eliminate these issues, you can create custom queues and reassign the topic workflows to the custom Queue

Here are the property settings to redirect the topic group to custom Queue

 

 

Also remember to set the threads for the new queue

Sender System Name in OTM Outbound transmissions

 

When OTM sends any outbound communication, it includes the Source System URL. Sometimes this is long and clumsy depending on the installation. (Network and Internal DNS)

In order to change the URL and add a Logical System ID (Like ABC_OTMPROD) , make below changes in glog.properties (custom Section)

 

!remove glog.integration.senderSystemId = $glog.webserver.URL$

glog.integration.senderSystemId=ABC_OTMPROD

 

Before:

After

Performance Tuning Options for OTM

 

Typeahead or Autocomplete option in OTM generates lot of sql queries on DB server.

For Example :  in Location Field , if you start typing the first 3 characters, OTM would return list of  matches.

 

What actually happens in the background is OTM generates a query something like this : “ Select location_Xid from location where location_xid like ‘ABC%’ “

Imagine lot of users on the screens trying to fill the fields and OTM generating lot of autocomplete queries wil add lot of queries and load on db server.

Depending on DB Server capacity and connection Pools, this may or may not be an issue..

 

Adjust these glog.properies to manage this option

 

glog.ui.autocomplete=false (To turn off autocomplete )

glog.ui.autocomplete.start=3  ( change this  to a higher value to see performance and adjust as needed)

Fixing Duplicate MAC Address error on VMWARE

Troubleshooting Error - “MAC Address --- of adapter Ethernet0 is within the reserved address range or Adapter Ethernet0 many not have network connectivity”

 

This error will appear when copy of a VM Image is running in parallel with the original VM and  you chose ‘I Moved it’ when prompted by VMware.

 

Solution

1. Shutdown the VM which has the error.

2. Go to the VM’s (The VM which is generating error) Folder and change the Folder Name .,. (change to any thing)

3. Launch the VMX File and VMware generates the same prompt,  choose “I Copied it”

This will fix the problem

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Persisting Planning Parameter at shipment Level

 

with new 6.2 Release Oracle added functionality to store parameter used for building shipment at shipment Level. This  helps in using the parameter for various shipment actions with out relying on domain default parameter sets.

You can disable  this if you need to in Domain Settings

 

Showing Stop Activity on Shipment Map Page

To show stop activity on Shipment Map Window ,  make below changes in glog.properties file ( Change in Custom Section)

!remove glog.map.show_stop_activity=false

glog.map.show_stop_activity=true

Configuring Action Checks

If you need to validate some values when performing a user action, you can configure Action checks to do validation

 

for example,  When a User creates a Order Base , we can validate if the base id contains any invalid / unwanted chars

 

select Audit Action as “Add Order Base”

 

Create Allow Condition as below

 

you can set the cause and solution labels with required error message

 

Assign this Action check to user or role as required…

OTM External System Communication using Proxy

Some times there are external systems that can be reached by proxy only. Here’s how you can set the Proxy for http communication in glog.properties

 

 

You can also set proxy for ftp comunication using below parameters

glog.integration.ftp.proxyHost

glog.integration.ftp.proxyPort

Reformulating Regions and Cleaning up the Old Sets

 

There are some instances when you need to change region details and move the details between regions . If you do this thru UI , all the internal tables (Formulated Regions) gets adjusted automatically . How ever when you change or move the details via CSV uploads.. you have a bad region formulation.

You need to clean up HNAME_SET_MEMBER table  for the regions impacted. (delete all the records from that table)

Update Region table and set LOADED Flag as N for the regions impacted

and choose Formulate Regions from the UI