Understanding Autopilot

The following provides an overview and discusses:

• Auto pilot batch processing setup.

• Automating journal edit and post.

The Auto pilot feature provides added flexibility to the PeopleSoft Process Scheduler, which is used for performing batch processing. While PeopleSoft Process Scheduler provides a means of scheduling processes using a batch window, for example, scheduling a specific batch process to run daily at a given time, Autopilot allows you to set up recurring processing based on the user-defined range of transaction count for transactions that are ready to be processed.

Recurring processing enables you to run processes at scheduled intervals throughout the day if certain criteria are met. The criteria includes minimum and maximum wait times, and minimum and maximum ready transaction counts.

In addition, the Autopilot can run multiple instances of a process in parallel. For example, you can set up a process to run multiple times to process transactions for different business units simultaneously.

By replacing batch-window processing with recurring parallel processing, you have the benefits of a more robust, near real-time data processing environment.

In addition, processes and their run control records can still be used in the same way for regular batch processing. If you currently use multiple run controls for parallel processing of partitioned data, you are still able to maintain these techniques and also use the Autopilot.