1 MFP Batch Task Administration

The Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP) Cloud Service batch task is a powerful tool provided to the Administrator to manage periodic load/export of Data/Hierarchy from the front end, eliminating the cumbersome effort of scheduling and running the batch from the back end domain server.

MFP Cloud Service uses the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Edition (RPASCE) Online Administration Tools to schedule RPASCE services to run batch on the Cloud. Administrative users can view the results of the scheduled services in the log on a dashboard through the RPASCE front end.

RPASCE Online Administration Tools support the scheduling of standard RPAS utilities and, in addition, scheduling application-specific services. For a detailed understanding of the Online Administration Tools, see the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Edition Administration Guide.

JOS/POM is used to schedule pre-configured jobs from MFPCS. Any jobs scheduled using JOS/POM from planning applications, in turn will only schedule the jobs as an OAT task which can also be monitored using OAT dashboards like any other tasks scheduled directly within the application.

The following sections explain the application-specific administration tasks that are pre-configured for MFP Cloud Service. These tasks are only applicable for Template implementations.

For non-Template type implementations, the Configured Batch Tasks can be fully configured by making changes to the batch control files. For information about changing the batch control files and how to upload them, see the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Edition Implementation Guide.

Customers using Template versions can also customize the tasks by changing the control files as part of the Extensibility framework. For allowed changes, see the Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial Planning Cloud Service Implementation Guide.