Best Practices for Performance for Concurrent Managers in E-Business Suite

Best Practices for Performance for Concurrent Managers in E-Business Suite

Best Practices for Performance for Concurrent Managers in E-Business Suite Applies to: Oracle Application Object Library - Version: 11.5.0 to 12.1 - Release: 11.5.10 to 12 Information in this document applies to any platform. Purpose Provide the best practices to achieve better performance for concurrent manager in Oracle EBusiness Suite. Scope and Application Applications DBAs, System Administrators involved in configuration and administration of Oracle E-Business Suite. Best Practices for Performance for Concurrent Managers in E-Business Suite Best Practices for Performance for Concurrent Managers in E-Business Suite This Document contains 3 topics. 1. Generic Tips 2. Transaction Manager (TM) 3. Parallel Concurrent Processing (PCP) Environment Generic Tips 1) Sleep Seconds - is the number of seconds your Concurrent manager waits between checking the list of pending concurrent requests (concurrent requests waiting to be started). Tip: Set the sleep time to be very brief during periods when the number of requests submitted is expected to be high. Otherwise set the sleep time to a high number (e.g. 2 minutes) . This avoids constant polls to check for new requests. 2) Increase the cache size (number of requests cached) to at least twice the number of target processes. For example, if a manager's work shift has 1 target process and a cache value of 3, it will read three requests, and try to run those three requests before reading any new requests. Tip: Enter a value of 1 when defining a manager that runs long, time-consuming jobs, and a value of 3 or 4 for managers that run small, quick jobs. 3) Create specialized concurrent managers to dedicate certain process either short or long running programs to avoid queue length. 4) To maximize throughput consider reducing the sleep time of the Conflict Resolution Manager (CRM). The default value is 60 seconds. You can consider setting to 5 or 10 seconds. 5) Avoid enabling an excessive number of standard or specialized managers. It can degrade the performance due polling on queue tables (FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS...). You need to create specialized managers only if there is a real need. 6) Set the system profile option "Concurrent: Force Local Output File Mode" to "Yes" if required . You need to apply patch 7530490 for R12 (or) 7834670 for 11i to get this profile.

Refer Note.822368.1: Purge Concurrent Request FNDCPPUR Does Not Delete Files From File System or Slow performance Note:- The profile option "Concurrent: Force Local Output File Mode" is set to "No" by default. After applying the patch, set the profile option to YES will cause FNDCPPUR to always access files on the local file system, hence FNDCPPUR will remove the OS files faster.To enable this feature, All Concurrent Manager nodes must be able to access the output file location via the local filesystem 7) Truncate the reports.log file in log directory. Refer Note.844976.1 for more details Truncation of file "reports.log" is a regular maintenance work of Application DBA. Make sure that reports log file size should not increase to its maximum limit of 2 GB. There is no purge program to truncate file "reports.log". This maintenance needs to be done manually and regularly depending on number of concurrent program which uses "reports.log". You can safely truncate "reports.log". 8) Ensure "Purge Concurrent Request and/or Manager Data, FNDCPPUR," is run at regular intervals with "Entity" parameter as "ALL". A high number of records in FND_CONCURRENT tables can degrade the performance. 9) Ensure that the log/out files are removed from the locations shown below as you run "Purge Concurrent Request and/or Manager Data program". $APPLCSF/$APPLLOG $APPLCSF/$APPLOUT In the event that it does not remove the log/out files, over a period of time it will slow down the performance. Please refer to the following note which suggests the patch which fixes it. Note.822368.1: Purge Concurrent Request FNDCPPUR Does Not Delete Files From File System or Slow performance 10) Defragment the tables periodically to reclaim unused space / improve performance FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS FND_CONCURRENT_PROCESSES FND_CRM_HISTORY FND_ENV_CONTEXT FND_TEMP_FILES How to defragment 10.1) alter table . move; 10.2) Note that, some indexes might become unusable after table is moved, check the index status from dba_indexes for the table moved and rebuild them too as explained in next bullet. select owner, index_name, status from dba_indexes where table_owner = upper('&OWNER') and table_name = upper('&SEGMENT_NAME'); 10.3) alter index . rebuild online; Note: Ensure the tablespace in which the object currently exists has got sufficient space before you move/defragment . Always take backup of the tables before moving the data. It is recommended to perform ths action on Test instance initially then testing thoroughly before performing it on Production instance. 10.4) You will need to collect the statistics for the tables. For example:

exec fnd_stats.gather_table_stats ('APPLSYS','FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS',PERCENT=>99); Transaction Manager (TM) 11 ) Profile Concurrent:Wait for Available TM - Total time to wait for a TM before switchover to next available TM. Consider setting this to 1 (second). 12) Ensure enough TMs exist to service the incoming request load. 13) When the load is high, set the following profile to optimum values to achieve better results. PO: Approval Timeout Value - Total time for workflow call (When initiated from Forms) to time out. 14) Set the sleep time on the Transaction Manager to a high number (e.g. 10 minutes), this avoids constant polls to check for shutdown requests. Parallel Concurrent Processing (PCP) Environment 15) If the failover of managers is taking too long refer to Note:551895.1: Failover Of Concurrent Manager Processes Takes More than 30 Minutes 16) Set profile option 'Concurrent: PCP Instance Check' to 'OFF' if instance-sensitive failover is not required. Setting it to 'ON' means that concurrent managers will fail over to a secondary application tier node if the database instance to which it is connected goes down. 17) Transaction Manager uses DBMS_PIPE to communicate with application session prior to 11i.ATG_PF.H RUP3. DBMS_PIPE in turn uses OS Pipe.We might use Advance Queue(AQ) with 11i.ATG_PF.H RUP3 by setting System Profile Concurrent: TM Transport Type' to QUEUE' Note Pipes are more efficient but require a Transaction Manager to be running on each DB Instance (RAC). So you might want to use "Queue" for easy maintenance. 18) Add these parameters depends on your Database version + _lm_global_posts=TRUE + _immediate_commit_propagation=TRUE (11g RAC) + max_commit_propagation_delay=0 (9i RAC)