14 RDF Administration Task

This chapter describes the RDF batch flow management for RDF Cloud Service.

Batch Flow Administration Workspace, Step, and View

The following table lists the workspace, step, and view for the RDF Administration task.

Workspace	Step	Views
Batch Flow Administration Workspace	Batch Flow Management Step	Batch Flow Management View

Batch Flow Administration Workspace

The Batch Flow Administration workspace allows you access to all of the views listed in Batch Flow Administration Workspace, Step, and View.

To build the Batch Flow Administration workspace, perform these steps:

1. From the left sidebar menu, click the Task Module to view the available tasks.

   Figure 14-1 Task Module

   
   

2. Click the RDF Administration activity and then click Batch Flow Administration.

   This workbook does not have a wizard. A workbook is being prepared. Successful workspaces are available from the Dashboard.

The Batch Flow Administration workspace is built. This workspace contains this step: Batch Flow Management Step.

Batch Flow Management Step

This step includes the Batch Flow Management View.

Batch Flow Management View

This view contains measures that control what steps should be run doing batch. It is information that is passed to the OAT. For instance, if in the OAT you select to run estimation, by default the task runs estimation for all available final levels. However, if in the Batch Flow Management you enable Run Estimate 07, and disable Run Estimate 01, the OAT will only run estimation for final level 07.

The reason why many of these steps may be skipped has to do with the tuning of the system during the implementation. If one step is optimized, for instance preprocessing, for the sake of saving time, the implementer may want to skip this step, and concentrate on tuning the subsequent steps, for example, parameter estimation, pruning, forecasting, and so on.

Figure 14-2 Batch Flow Management View

Measures: Batch Flow Management

The Batch Flow Management view contains the following measures:

Calculate Promotion Indicator

If enabled, this task allows the calculation of the merged promotion indicator. This is basically an OR of all promotions.

Clear Curve 01

If enabled, the previously calculated seasonality curves are cleared out.

If disabled, previously calculated seasonality curves are overwritten by newly calculated curves. However, if new curves can not be generated, for instance due to lack of data, then the old ones are still available.

Clear Curve 07

If enabled, the previously calculated seasonality curves are cleared out.

If disabled, previously calculated seasonality curves are overwritten by newly calculated curves. However, if new curves can not be generated, for instance due to lack of data, then the old ones are still available

Cross Domain Causal Estimation Thread Count 01

If the measure is 0, RPAS controls the number of parallel threads.

If you enter a value other than 0, then this becomes the number of allowed parallel threads

Include New Item Recommendation 07

If enabled, forecast for New Items is generated.

Load RMS data

This task is enabled only if HSA is available.

Normalize Profile

If enabled, the profile will be normalized. This step can be skipped when a custom profile is configured and the normalization was already taken care of.

Rebuild Dashboard

If enabled, this step rebuilds the dashboard when the batch is run.

Reset Preprocessing Data Promo

If enabled, this forces all preprocessing adjustments to be cleared out as well as all promotional effects.

Reset Preprocessing Data Seasonality

If enabled, this forces all preprocessing adjustments to be cleared out as well as all seasonality curves.

Run New Item Batch

If enabled, this step calculates the New Item setup, for example, similarities, New Item recommendations, and so on.

If disabled, this step is skipped.

Run Estimate 01

When enabled allows estimation of forecast parameters for that final level.

Run Estimate 07

When enabled allows estimation of forecast parameters for that final level.

Run Forecast 01

If enabled, the forecast for final level 01 is generated.

Run Forecast 07

If enabled, the forecast for final level 07 is generated.

Run New Item Batch

If enabled, this step calculates the New Item setup, for example, similarities, New Item recommendations, and so on.

If disabled, this step is skipped.

Run Preprocess

If disabled, this step is not run.

Run Export

If enabled, the GA export is run.

If disabled, the export step is skipped and it can be replaced by a more customized data export.