Using WebLogic Integration - Business Connect

Document Send and Archive Schedules

The following topics are provided about document send and archive schedules.

Concepts

Overview of Schedules

Procedures

Overview of Schedules

WebLogic Integration - Business Connect has two types of schedules: send and archive. Send schedules set the intervals when documents are sent to your trading partners. The archive schedule sets the interval when Tracker runtime database records are moved to the archive database. Also, if you have elected document archiving, the archive schedule triggers the movement of documents from the WebLogic Integration - Business Connect backup directory to the archive directory.

The following topics describe schedules in more detail.

Send Schedule

A send schedule enables you to control when WebLogic Integration - Business Connect sends outbound documents to your trading partners. Send schedules do not apply to inbound documents, which are processed as soon as they are received.

Note: A send schedule in WebLogic Integration - Business Connect might duplicate the functionality of your translator. If you decide to use your translator for send scheduling, ensure that the default WebLogic Integration - Business Connect send schedule is set to every 15 seconds. If you do this, you do not need to set up any other send schedules.

About the Send Schedule

The send schedule is named Default Send and is accessed by selecting Tools—>Configure Schedule—>Send Schedule in Administrator. The send schedule initially is set to trigger every 15 seconds, every day. At each send interval, all documents are sent for each partner whose profile specifies this schedule. For most users this schedule is adequate.

You can change the default send schedule or make it inactive, but you cannot delete it. On the Partner Profile window Preferences tab, you can choose whether to apply the default send schedule or immediately send documents to partners.

Immediate Sending

Selecting Immediate Send on the Partner Profile window Preferences tab bypasses schedules in favor of sending documents to a partner right after they have been packaged.

How a Send Schedule Works

The following describes the steps and order in which a schedule works for sending documents.

WebLogic Integration - Business Connect polls the EDI-out, binary-out and XML-out directories and reads the documents from these directories into memory up to the limit set in the document memory limit field on the General tab in Tools—>Preferences, which you cannot change.

WebLogic Integration - Business Connect packages the documents according to the settings in your Partner Profile window Preferences and Security tabs and places the packaged documents in an outbound queue.

WebLogic Integration - Business Connect moves documents from the queue to the document transport by means of a send schedule. A send schedule runs at an interval measured from when WebLogic Integration - Business Connect finishes one batch of documents until it starts the next. The default interval of the send schedule is 15 seconds.

Using the send schedule, WebLogic Integration - Business Connect checks the queued documents by partner, selecting all documents for each partner who uses the default schedule.

WebLogic Integration - Business Connect creates a transport thread for the outbound documents and sends them to your trading partners.

Archive Schedule

There is a single archive schedule. You access the schedule by selecting Tools—>Configure Schedule—>Archive Schedule in Administrator. You can use it, change it or make it inactive, which turns off archiving, but you cannot delete it or create an archive schedule of your own.

About the Archiving Process

Archiving involves moving Tracker runtime database records to a historical repository called the archive database. You also can archive the actual documents you have sent or received from partners by choosing the backup and archive options on the Company Profile window Preferences tab. See Company Profile Preferences Tab.

Only completed runtime records are moved during archiving. A completed record is one for which an inbound document has been received and an acknowledgment has been sent or for which an outbound document has been sent and an acknowledgment has been received. Completed records are moved from the runtime tables to the corresponding archive tables. Rejected traffic records are not archived. You must reprocess rejected records or manually delete rejected records in Tracker.

By default the archive schedule is set weekly at 12 a.m. Saturday, which means Tracker runtime database records will be moved to the archive database every Saturday at midnight. At the same time, the documents WebLogic Integration - Business Connect has processed are moved from the application's backup directory to the archive directory, if you have elected document archiving. If you have more than a thousand transactions a day, inbound and outbound, we recommend that you change the schedule to perform archiving once a day.

The Server application must be running for Tracker archiving to occur. If the Server is not running at the scheduled archiving time, archiving will not occur and the runtime and archive databases will not change. If the Server is re-started after the scheduled archiving time, archiving will not take place retroactively. Rather, database records will be archived at the next scheduled time, presuming the Server is running.

There are two ways to turn off archiving: Make the archive schedule inactive or open the schedule and delete the archiving times.

The server.log File

WebLogic Integration - Business Connect writes output of Server application activity to a file called server.log located in the WebLogic Integration - Business Connect logs directory. When you use the View Server Log utility, you see the contents of this file as it is being written by WebLogic Integration - Business Connect.

The current output of Server application activity is continuously written to a server.log file. When the archive schedule triggers, WebLogic Integration - Business Connect closes the current server.log file, renames it using the current date and time, and begins writing output to a new server.log file. Closed server.log files are named according to the date and time archiving occurred in the following format: server.log.mm-dd-yyyy-hh-mm-AM (or PM).

Changing the Send Schedule

Use this procedure to control when WebLogic Integration - Business Connect sends outbound documents to your trading partners using the send schedule. The send schedule does not apply to inbound documents, which are processed as soon as they are received.

The send schedule is initially set at a sending interval of 15 seconds. For most users this send interval is adequate.

Steps

Select Tools—>Configure Schedule—>Send Schedule in Administrator to open the Configure Send Schedule window.

Figure 9-1 Configure Send Schedule Window

Configure Send Schedule Window

Complete or change the fields. See Field Descriptions.

Click OK to save your changes or Cancel to exit without saving your changes.

Field Descriptions

The following describes the fields on the Schedule - Every Day window. For procedure see the preceding Steps.

Schedule every [n] hours [n] minutes [n] seconds

Set the interval for WebLogic Integration - Business Connect to send documents. Type the interval in hours, minutes and seconds in the corresponding fields. The maximum interval is 99 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds. This field is required.

Allowing a value greater than 24 hours enables you to use intervals that do not match the even-day intervals of the other schedules. For example, you can schedule documents to be sent every 32 hours.

Status

Choose one of the following:

Active as of—indicates you want WebLogic Integration - Business Connect to use this schedule. WebLogic Integration - Business Connect provides this date, which is the date you make this schedule active. A new schedule is active by default.

Inactive—indicates you do not want WebLogic Integration - Business Connect to use this schedule.

Changing the Archive Schedule

Use this procedure to change or inactivate the archive schedule for Tracker database records. This schedule also archives trading documents, if you have elected document archiving in your company profile. For more information about this schedule, see Archive Schedule.

Figure 9-2 Configure Archive Schedule Window

Configure Archive Schedule Window

Steps

Select Tools—>Configure Schedule—>Archive Schedule in Administrator to open the Configure Archive Schedule window.

To change the schedule, change the Archive time values. Type the time you want and select the frequency from the drop-down list. Click Add.

To delete part of the schedule, select the times to delete and click Delete. Or, click Delete All to delete the entire schedule. If you delete an entire schedule and do not add one, archiving becomes inactive.

To make a schedule inactive without deleting it, click Inactive. You can re-activate the schedule by clicking Active as of. The active as of date is a system-selected date.

Click OK to close and save your changes or Cancel to close with saving.