Oracle Apps SYSADMIN Concurrent Requests

Purpose: Purpose of this blog entry is to list SYSADMIN Related concurrent requests. In this document, generic instructions and parameters are provided, which needs to be reviewed and decided based on particular customer needs.

Oracle SYSADMIN related Concurrent Requests:

1) Gather Schema Statistics

 Schedule: Every Weekend (Preferably on every Sat 6:00 pm server time). If this is not sufficient (if performance is not good), it can be done 2/3 times a week.

OR, Weekend for ALL schemas and 2/3 times during the week for only few important schemas where in there is heavy insert / update / delete happening.

Parameters:

Schema name: ALL

Parallel Worker: Number of CPUs + 2

Estimate Percent: 30

Other parameters: Default

How to submit: Login to Applications using SYSADMIN account, navigate to System Administrator responsibility, then navigate to Requests > Run

2) Purge Concurrent Request and/or Manager Data

Schedule: Every day, nighttime, say 11:00 PM Server time

Parameters:

Age=30 (Purge concurrent request data older than 30 days)

Other parameters: Default

Note: Age parameter needs to be agreed with Business / Customer.

How to submit: Login to Applications using SYSADMIN account, navigate to System Administrator responsibility, then navigate to Requests > Run

3) Purge Concurrent Request and/or Manager Data

 Schedule: Every day night time, say 11:30 Server time

Parameters:

Count: 5

Program Application: Application Object Library

Program: Workflow Background Process

Other parameters: Default

Note: Count Parameter needs to be agreed with Business / Customer.

How to submit: Login to Applications using SYSADMIN account, navigate to System Administrator responsibility, then navigate to Requests > Run

4) Workflow Background Process

 Schedule: Every 10 min

Parameters:

Process Deferred: Yes

Process Timeout: No

How to submit: Login to Applications using SYSADMIN account, then navigate to Oracle Applications Manager responsibility, then navigate to Workflow Manager, then use “Submit Request for “ facility (top – right hand side) (Select “Background Engines” from drop down)

5) Workflow Background Process

 Schedule: Every 60 min

Parameters:

Process Deferred Yes

Process Timeout: Yes

How to submit: Login to Applications using SYSADMIN account, then navigate to Oracle Applications Manager responsibility, then navigate to Workflow Manager, then use “Submit Request for “ facility (top – right hand side) (Select “Background Engines” from drop down)

6) Workflow Control Queue Cleanup

 Schedule: Every day, night time / early morning hours

Parameters: Default

How to submit: Login to Applications using SYSADMIN account, then navigate to Oracle Applications Manager responsibility, then navigate to Workflow Manager, then use “Submit Request for “ facility (top – right hand side) (Select “Control Queue Cleanup” from drop down)

7) Purge Obsolete Workflow Runtime Data

 Schedule: Every weekend

Parameters:

Age: 30

Other parameters: Default

Note: Age parameter needs to be agreed with Business / Customer.

How to submit: Login to Applications using SYSADMIN account, then navigate to Oracle Applications Manager responsibility, then navigate to Workflow Manager, then use “Submit Request for “ facility (top – right hand side) (Select “Purge” from drop down)

8) Synchronize WF LOCAL tables

 Schedule: Every day, night time / early morning hours

Parameters: Default

How to submit: Login to Applications using SYSADMIN account, navigate to System Administrator responsibility, then navigate to Requests > Run


Note: As per metalink id 1158212.1, after E-business version 11.5.10 this request generally does not need to be run.

9) OAM Applications Dashboard Collection

 Schedule: Every 30 min

Parameters: Default

How to submit: Login to Applications using SYSADMIN account, navigate to System Administrator responsibility, then navigate to Requests > Run

10) Purge Signon Audit data

 Schedule: Can no schedule needs to be run manually, say every week Monday / Friday morning.

Parameters: Date (By default system date)

Note: Most of customer wants this date to be, 2 to 3 months old

How to submit: Login to Applications using SYSADMIN account, navigate to System Administrator responsibility, then navigate to Requests > Run

Note for DBA’s: There will be check box “Increment data parameter for each run” which must be checked.

11) Purge Debug Log

 Schedule: Every day / weekend.

Parameters: Date (By default system date)

Note: Most of customer wants this date to be, 2 weeks to 3 month old

How to submit: Login to Applications using SYSADMIN account, navigate to System Administrator responsibility, then navigate to Requests > Run

Note for DBA’s: There will be check box “Increment data parameter for each run” which must be checked.

12) Resend Failed/Error Workflow Notifications

 Schedule: Run every 6 hours.

Parameters: ERROR / FAILED (One request for each parameter)

How to submit: Login to Applications using SYSADMIN account, navigate to System Administrator responsibility, then navigate to Requests > Run

Note for DBA’s: As this request takes date as parameter, it cannot be scheduled easily. You may have to run this physically on one particular day of week, say Monday morning.

DB Jobs

Purge old snapshots from PREFSTAT schema

Other relevant document’s.

732713.1 Purging Strategy for eBusiness Suite 11i

298550.1 Troubleshooting Workflow Data Growth Issues