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Wednesday 6 June 2012

Standard Request Submission

Standard Request Submission


Standard Request Submission

  • Provides standard interface for running and monitoring reports.
  • Single form to submit any request, concurrent program. Another form to see report's progress and to review report online.
  • Submit Request form: easy-to-use interface.
  • Automatic Resubmission.
  • Request Sets: define sets of reports, Submit an entire set at same time.
  • Request Set options: Run order, printer, no. of copies etc.
  • Request Set Log File:Single log file containing the completion status of all reports in set.
  • Viewing Requests: Monitor report's progress using View Request form.

  • Child Request: or a sub-request submitted by any other concurrent request(Parent Request)

  • Parameter: A value you specify when you run a request.
* A request set is parent request and all reports in set are child requests
Value Set: A set of values against which AOL validates values, the ned user enters when running a concurrent program.

Controlling Access to Reports:
  • Create related group of reports and request sets.
  • Define responsibility and assign a report security group to that responsibility.
Request Sets:
  • A collection of reports/programs that are grouped together. Allow to submit reports or programs in a request set all at once using a single transaction.
  • Request set can be defined to submit requests depending on the completion status of previously submitted requests in the set.
Stage:
  • Component of a request set used to group requests within a set. All requests in a stage are executed in parallel. Request set executes one stage at a time., following links from stage to stage.
  • Links that are followed depend on the completion status of the individual stages. A stage completes when all the requests contained in the stage have completed.
  • PL/SQL functions calculate the completion status of a stage
  • Three status of a stage:
  1. Success
  2. Warning
  3. Error
Stage Evaluation function:
  • Provided by AOL, computes the stage completion status from the completion statuses of the specified requests in set.
  • Function returns a
  1. Success: If all requests completed with a status of "Success".
  2. Warning: If one or more requests in set completed with warning and no request completed with error.
  3. Error: If any request in set completed with error.

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