System Resources and Performance

Based on the way in which the programs for the base currency conversion process and convert data, you must clean up the data tables and, as much as possible, remove detailed records from them before you run the conversion. By doing so, the conversion programs use less disk space, which improves processing time. Pay particular attention to the size of the F0911 and F0902 tables.

When you run the conversion in the test environment, use the performance monitor that the operating system vendor provides to estimate system resources and performance. The performance monitor enables you to track CPU processing, amount of I/O, and memory consumption, and it should help indicate what you can expect for system resources and performance when you run the conversion in the production environment.

This example shows the number of records in several tables before and after the conversion; use this as an example only because actual results vary:

Table	Before	After
F0911	43,656	50,342
Accounts Receivable Ledger (F03B11)	1,247	same
F0411	889	same
F0902	19,985	21,308
Equipment Rates (F1301)	46	same
Production Cost (F3102)	12,162	same
Sales Order Header File (F4201)	818	same
F4211	2,004	same
Item Ledger File (F4111)	14,302	same
F4229	182	same
F4812	36	same
Total	3,091,456	3,124,224