Future Cost Table Maintenance (future_cost_purge_job)

Module Name	future_cost_purge_job
Description	Future Cost Table Maintenance
Functional Area	Costing
Module Type	Admin - Ad hoc
Module Technology	Background Processing
Catalog ID	N/A
Wrapper Script	b8dwrap.ksh

Schedule

Oracle Retail Merchandising Batch Schedule

Design Overview

This background job is composed of two steps processing. It will have a threading assignment and a business logic processing.

Thread assignment program will filter eligible records from future cost table for purging. These records are chunked, and Thread ID is assigned for each. They will be stored temporarily in a staging table.

The Business logic program will process all records from the staging table. Using bulk processing, this program will delete future-cost data from future-cost table. It will free up and clean the staging table afterwards. There is a STOP ON NEXT feature in bulk processing (through a loop) where Administrators can stop this batch with a flip of this indicator.

Note:

This process also supports archiving, if desired. For more information on how to configure this process for archiving, see the Merchandising Implementation Guide section titled "Background Configuration Process".

Restart/Recovery

N/A

Locking Strategy

N/A

Security Considerations

N/A

Performance Considerations

N/A

Key Tables Affected

Table 9-2 Key Tables Affected

Table	Select	Insert	Update	Delete
RMS_BATCH_STATUS	Yes	No	No	No
B8D_PROCESS_CONFIG	Yes	No	No	No
SYSTEM_OPTIONS	Yes	No	No	No
PERIOD	Yes	No	No	No
FUTURE_COST	Yes	No	No	Yes
B8D_FUTURE_COST_PURGE_STG	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
JOB_AUDIT_LOGS	No	Yes	No	No
FUTURE_COST_PRG_HIST	No	Yes	No	No

I/O Specification

N/A