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I am trying to figure out a way to setup Report Caster to use the &&KILL_RPC and &&KILL_RFC_NRT. When using this below at the end, it works to some extent, but I am looking for a way for the &&KILL_RPC_NRT to be universal since each of my Report Caster schedules are not all set to run at the same time. I have tried a few variations, but so far the below is all that I can get to work.

-SET &&KILL_RPC = IF &RECORDS EQ 0 THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N';
-TYPE &&KILL_RPC
-SET &&KILL_RPC_NRT = IF EDIT(&TOD,'$$99$$') EQ '00' THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N';
-TYPE &&KILL_RPC_NRT

Do you guys know of a way to manipulate &&KILL_RPC_NRT to be universal for all schedules?

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WebFocus 8.1.05, Windows Platform
 
Posts: 8 | Registered: November 21, 2016Report This Post
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What would be the condition that prevent RC to start ?

Will it be the same condition for all schedules ?

If it's a condition that can be established (tested) by WF, maybe you can create a fex that will set the &&KILL_RPC_NRT based on above condition and add the fex in the _universal_profile ?


WF versions : Prod 8.2.04M gen 33, Dev 8.2.04M gen 33, OS : Windows, DB : MSSQL, Outputs : HTML, Excel, PDF
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We have an ETL job that runs daily, the report will not have data until the ETL process has completed. As of right now, the only ETL job we are concerned with is this one, but eventually want the process to expand to other scheduled reports.

An example of what we are doing is:

DEFINE FILE BLAH
BLANK/A1 = ' ';
JOB_NAME/A100V = JOB_NAME;
DATE1/A19V=FINISH_TIME;
DATE2/HYYMDS=HINPUT(14,DATE1, 20, 'HYYMDS');
DATE3/MDYY=HDATE(DATE2,'MDYY');
END

TABLE FILE BLAH
PRINT
JOB_NAME
START_TIME
FINISH_TIME
STATUS
DATE3
WHERE JOB_NAME EQ 'BLAH_REPORT' AND DATE3 EQ '&DATE'
ON TABLE HOLD AS FIELDHOLD
END
-SET &&KILL_RPC = IF &RECORDS EQ 0 THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N';
-TYPE &&KILL_RPC
-SET &&KILL_RPC_NRT = IF EDIT(&TOD,'$$99$$') EQ '00' THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N';
-TYPE &&KILL_RPC_NRT

I have also tried a -SLEEP and -LOOP, but that makes it so that there are agents holding and we can not have agents tied up for too long.


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Posts: 8 | Registered: November 21, 2016Report This Post
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According to the fact that you will need a solution to manage RC based on execution of multiple ETL and without knowing all your spec (does all ETL will have to completed prior to let RC run or 1 ETL will manage 1 report, etc) here is some ideas of multiple solutions:

Create a table or file (execution log) that will hold the result of the ETL, then as first step in your report fex test the table row related to that report (assuming 1 ETL for 1 report fex) and set &&KILL_RPC / &&KILL_RPC_NRT according to the result or just bypass the report within the fex.

Can also have a fex that will set the &&KILL... variables based on same above ETL log table read and where this fex is called within the _universal_profile.

And could have probably many other options...


WF versions : Prod 8.2.04M gen 33, Dev 8.2.04M gen 33, OS : Windows, DB : MSSQL, Outputs : HTML, Excel, PDF
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do please put a -RUN after your END statement, and use &LINES, not &RECORDS.
why can you not hold open this one single agent for as long as it takes to get the GO signal? Its just one...




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I would look at this the opposite way. Instead of waiting for the RC job to wait until the data exists, why don't you use your ETL to schedule the job once the data has been loaded. This way you don't have to have some process just waiting around indefinitely.


Eric Woerle
8.1.05M Gen 913- Reporting Server Unix
8.1.05 Client Unix
Oracle 11.2.0.2
 
Posts: 750 | Location: Warrenville, IL | Registered: January 08, 2013Report This Post
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Jen,

Just another option for you might be looking at the ETL_STATS file which comes with the software and registers all the ETL processes ran.

Make a pre-procedure in the ReportCaster, like:

TABLE FILE ETL_STATS
PRINT S_REQ_NAME
WHERE DATETIME_START EQ '&YYMD.EVAL';
WHERE DATETIME_END   EQ '&YYMD.EVAL';
WHERE (S_REQ_NAME EQ ... );
ON TABLE HOLD
END
-RUN

-TYPE &LINES


If you schedule the ETL flow you can align the timing with this ReportCaster pre-procedure.

Good luck,
SWES


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interesting. where is the ETL_STATS file? I don't see it anywhere in my caster's oracle db?




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Hi Susan!

Reason why is I remember you're not using DataMigrator (correct?), ETL_STATS is a table that comes with the DataMigrator software.


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