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Configuring a HierarchyCopy Job

The HierarchyCopy job replicates all published hierarchies for the periods up to the current period.

After Oracle Self-Service E-Billing is in production, schedule the HierarchyCopy job to run when the new billing and reporting period begins. The Period parameter must be the current period. During the initial production data loading, the user has the option to replicate data period by period all the way to the current period.

For example, if you have 12 months of billing data starting in September 2007 that must be populated before your implementation goes live, you can run ETLOLTPProductionLoaderJob for September 2007, then run Hierarchy Copy job for October 2007, (to replicate September 2007's hierarchy to October). After the October data has been replicated, October will not show up in the list. You can then run ETLOLTPProductionLoader again to load billing data for October 2007. The ETLOLTPProductionLoader job will then add additional data to the billing structures that are replicated from September 2007.

Unless the Hierarchy copy job has been run for all periods up to the current period, you must prevent any online activities that involve hierarchy management, to include creating a new hierarchy and publishing to the periods that are later than the period for which you have run the Hierarchy Copy job.

Parameters for Configuring the HierarchyCopy Task

Table 14 describes the configuration parameters for the HierarchyCopy task.