1 APCS Batch Task Administration

The Assortment Planning Cloud Service (APCS) 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.

Assortment Planning Cloud Service uses the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Edition (RPASCE) Online Administration Tools as part of scheduling RPASCE utilities and scripts that must be scheduled to run batch on Cloud, as the users do not have access to directly schedule scripts or run utilities on the domain server. Administration users can view the results of the scheduled scripts/utilities log in a dashboard through the RPAS Cloud Edition.

RPASCE Online Administration Tools support the scheduling of standard RPASCE 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 APCS. 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 AP 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. For allowed changes, see the Oracle Retail Assortment Planning Cloud Service Implementation Guide.