Re: PSVTUE - eFin U-Job

James

Your number one issue is 80%. It does not matter which job is running or not. If disk space is at 80% the operating system begins caching at such a rate that your system will slow to a crawl. 80% is like a magic number on the i Series (Power Systems i, AS/400, et. al.) You need to do everything you can to lower your disk space usage to below the 80% threshold.

Also, I'm assuming VR5.3 or VR5.4? The Power-Link architecture will benefit from an upgrade as the iSeries Java servers are vastly improved. Although, that being said I know many, many customers running R7.8 on VR5.3 and VR5.4 and are very happy with performance. But all of them are below 50% disk utilization.

Also, your advice on the credit limit program may be incorrect as it has been replaced at R7.8 with PSVTUE and is no a longer scheduled job.

Its not just the number of transactions that are being run, it's really your 80% issue. It also explains why you see the numbers growing. When transactions are posted (assuming all current PTF's are applied) the PSVTUE runs the updates; however because of the 80% usage issue, the system will start swapping disk space around, which will cause the program to appear to be running away. It's not really the program, but all the swapping that the OS is doing as a result of the program running. Since the swapping (memory caching)is taking overy, many of the transactions are not really completing and your numbers of pending transactions grows.

I'd recommend calling support to ask them to assist in reviewing your system performance. They have the tools to assist you.

Kevin Fox


-----Original Message-----

From: James Pankratz <jpmorriston@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sep 28, 2010 4:20 PM
To: mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] PSVTUE - eFin U-Job

We are running on a Model 525. There is an issue with disk space - we're at
80%. There are plans to upgrade within 6 months so that may solve this
problem in the long term, but basically we're hoping to understand why so
many transactions are being generated...it doesn't seem that we generate
that many new financial transactions on a daily basis, so there must be
something else triggering it. if we can reduce that, then maybe the
performance issue will not be such a factor. Based on responses so far, the
culprit is likely exchange rate corrections.

I did receive an off-line email as well to recommend looking into an XA IFM
job that runs an update for Credit Limits on a regular schedule. Could be
this job runs too frequently or in peak hours.

date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:55:36 -0700
from: gogo400@xxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] PSVTUE - eFin U-Job

James--- Just what kind of box are you running?

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