search for a scheduled job

Optionally, select a Job Name, Organization, and/or System and click Search to display the scheduled job.

Note:  Searching by organization or system is supported only for jobs that are specific to an organization or system. See the Job Name field a summary description of each job.

select a scheduled job for review

Highlight a scheduled job to open the Browse Active Schedules window. This window displays the schedule interval and the related time or minutes for the scheduled job.

refresh the displayed information

Click Search.

review history for the sales order data extract job

Click the history icon () in the History column for an organization to advance to the View Sales Order Data Extract Job History screen.

review history for the product import job

Click the history icon () in the History column for an organization to advance to the Product Imports History screen.

review history for the incremental import job

Click the history icon () in the History column for an organization to advance to the Incremental Imports History screen.

reschedule all

Select Reschedule All to stop and restart all scheduled jobs and programs. You might use this option:

•         When you first configure Order Broker and need to enable all jobs and programs to run as scheduled.

•         After an upgrade is applied to Order Broker.

•         To correct an issue with scheduled jobs and programs if, for example, the server shuts down unexpectedly and these jobs and programs are not running as scheduled.

Only users with Reschedule All authority have this option.

Which jobs and programs? This option schedules, or stops and reschedules all of the jobs listed at this screen, plus:

•         Scheduled reports (Schedule Reports).

•         Polling of orders for Store Connect (see New Order Polling Schedule tab (Schedule)).

•         In Process cleanup job (see Acknowledge Order Before Brokering for background)

Search/new fields:

Job Name

The job that is currently scheduled. Optionally, select a listed job and select Search to display the schedule information for that job. Jobs that can be scheduled and displayed here are:

Auto Cancel Unclaimed Pickup Orders: Cancels unclaimed pickup or ship-for-pickup orders based on the settings of the Auto Cancel Days of Unclaimed Pickup Orders and Auto Cancel Days of Unclaimed Ship For Pickup Orders at the Preferences screen. This job runs daily at a specified time. See Auto-Cancel Unclaimed Orders for a discussion.

Completed Order Private Data Purge: Anonymizes customer data on sales orders that closed (fulfilled, canceled, unfulfillable, completed) and purchase orders that have been closed (shipped, complete, or canceled) and that are older than a specified number of days. See Completed Order Private Data Purge for a discussion.

Daily Clean Up: Clears outdated information on a daily basis. See the Daily Clean Up job for details. This job runs daily at a specified time.

Email Notifications: Generates email notifications to store locations, vendors, customers, retailers, or systems operations staff based on the unprocessed records that are currently in the EMAIL_NOTIFICATION table. This job runs at the specified minute interval: for example, generate email notifications every 5 minutes. See the Email Notifications job for details.

Fulfilled Quantity Export: Generates a pipe-delimited file of recent order fulfillments, so the inventory system of record can use this information to update its own inventory based on activity in Order Broker. See the Fulfilled Inventory Export job for details.

Identity Cloud Service Synchronization: Creates users in Order Broker based on the data that has been set up in IDCS. Not currently implemented.

Incremental Inventory Import: Uses the contents of a pipe-delimited import file to update product location records for the system. See the Incremental Inventory Import job for details.

Probable Quantity Export: Creates a pipe-delimited export file providing the current totals for products or product locations based on updates to product location quantities, including applying probable quantity rules. See the Probable Quantity Export job for details.

Product Import: Imports and updates information that includes products, system products, product locations, locations, and product barcodes. See the Product Import job for details.

Sales Order Data Extract: Creates export files containing data related to orders with any activity within a specified date range. See the Sales Order Data Extract for details.

Jobs that are not flagged as enabled at the Schedule Jobs screen are not listed in the results here.

Organization

See organization. Defaults from the organization associated with the Default Shipping System from your user profile, but you can override this default.

Filtering displayed jobs based on organization takes place only for the jobs that are associated with a specific organization: these are the Probable Quantity Export, Fulfilled Quantity Export, Product Import, Probable Quantity Export, and Incremental Inventory Import, and Sales Order Data Extract.

System

See system. Optionally, select a system the drop down list in order to display jobs run for the selected system. If you first select an Organization, only systems associated with that organization are displayed.

Filtering jobs based on organization takes place only for the jobs that are associated with a specific system: these are the Probable Quantity Export, Fulfilled Quantity Export, Product Import, Probable Quantity Export, and Incremental Inventory Import.

Results fields:

Job Name

See the Job Name, above, for information.

Organization

The organization code is displayed only for jobs related to a specific organization: these are the Probable Quantity Export, Fulfilled Quantity Export, Product Import, Probable Quantity Export, and Incremental Inventory Import, and Sales Order Data Extract.

System

The code identifying the system associated with the scheduled job. The system code is displayed only for those jobs related to a specific system: these are the Probable Quantity Export, Fulfilled Quantity Export, Product Import, Probable Quantity Export, and Incremental Inventory Import.

System Name

The name describing the system.

Last Updated

The last date and time when the schedule was updated for the job, and the ID of the user who performed the update.

Last Run

The last date and time when the job ran.

Next Run

The next date and time when the job is scheduled to run.

Status

Indicates the result of the most recent import process:

•         a green check () indicates that no errors occurred.

Note:  The green check is also displayed if there were no records to import.

•         a red X () indicates that an error occurred for at least one record in the import.

•         a yellow triangle () indicates that the import was rejected because another import or the probable quantity export was already running. Only one import or the probable quantity export can run at the same time in your organization.

•         a running man () indicates that the import is currently running.

This field is blank if you have not yet run the import process for the system, or if the job is anything other than the Incremental Inventory Import, Product Import, or Sales Order Data Extract.

Duration

The number of minutes and seconds it took the job to run, in MM:SS format. Displayed only for the Incremental Inventory Import, Product Import, and Sales Order Extract.

History

Click the history icon () for an organization to advance to a screen displaying history for the hob. The history option is not available for any other scheduled jobs.

When is history available? This option is available only for the following jobs:

•         Sales Order Data Extract: Opens the View Sales Order Data Extract Job History screen.

•         Incremental Inventory Import: Opens the Incremental Imports History screen.

•         Product Import: Opens the Product Imports History screen.

Also, the history is available only if:

•         The job has been run at least once,

•         The history has not been purged, based on the number of days specified in the Extract Log History setting at the Tenant - Admin screen; also,

•         The job is listed at the View Active Schedules screen for an organization only if it is currently scheduled, based on the Schedule Enabled flag at the Schedule Jobs screen.