Batch consolidate and vprs

Hi, Need some advise from some SAP guru. In our current system, we already setup the batch management. When perform delivery and billing, most model ship- out, will using more than one batch.
Case:
 Model A
 Sales Price => 6.05
 Standard Cost => 4.00
The PGI [vl02n] will result to create of two material document (601) and also posting to FI-GINI account.
Batch | Qty | Price | Amount
aaa | 33 | 4.05 | 13.37
bbb | 67 | 4.05 | 27.14
Total 40.51
The billing [vf01], will copy the delivery information as seperate batch and this will be use as to calculate the total invoice. Posting to FI-GINI will also be occur.
Batch | Qty | Price | Amount | Cost (VPRS) | Cost Amt
aaa | 33 | 6.05 | 19.97 | 4.05 | 13.37
bbb | 67 | 6.05 | 40.54 | 4.05 | 27.14
Total 60.51----
40.51
In Invoice printing, we only print out one record as we already add-out the batch qty as total.
Model |Qty | Price | Amount
Model A |100 | 6.05 | 60.51
PROBLEM : So now, the problem will be customer ask the 100x6.05 => should be 60.50. Not 60.51.
Last time, we configure to accumulate the batch qty to item total. The result look promising. But problem occur on the FI-GINI account.
1. Billing qty set to 'H' in VTFL for batch and total item.
2. IMG > Sales & Dist > Sales > Sales Document Item > Define Item Category. Statistical value set to 'X' for batch item.
The PGI [vl02n] will still result to create of two material document (601) and also posting to FI-GINI account.
Batch | Qty | Price |Amount
aaa | 33 | 4.05 | 13.37
bbb | 67 | 4.05 | 27.14
Total 40.51
The billing [vf01], will accumulate the delivery information as one total item and this will be use as to calculate the total invoice. Posting to FI-GINI will also be occur.
Qty | Price | Amount | Cost (VPRS) | Cost Amt
100 | 6.05 | 60.50 | 4.05 | 40.50
In Invoice printing, only print out one record follow to vf01.
Model |Qty | Price | Amount
Model A | 100 | 6.05 | 60.50
Invoice to customer OK.
PROBLEM : GINI account during PGI will be 40.51 but during billing will be 40.50. So debit and credit will be 0.01 diff.
Any help on what I may need to do?

thanks. That worked. Although I still don't know why when I consolidate
and transcode, it doesn't trim my master file down smaller (I have a 6 GB
quicktime in my sequence, but with all my trims, I'm only using less than
half of that quicktime in my sequence - yet it still insists on copying
over the entire 6gb file, rather than trimming it down to only the parts
that I used in the final cut (it just makes me have to send more than I
need to my colorist - therefore making it a painfully slow upload process)
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Trent Happel <[email protected]>

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In view of not finding any literature (which I doubt is the case) it seems that the problem is the same, so probably the solution is also similar.
In the procedural solution, a Jackson (or similar), would have been designed which would then reflect the procedures build into the code.
I expect that if instead of procedures classes where defined, certainly at a higher level then the design would still be ok.
(So a the higher level you have a 'main' class, which instansiates a 'read' io object, a processing object which handles the actual processing activity and a write io object).
The level to which would would combine procedures together, or further split them out, would then be the main point of discussion.
( However am open to the above suggestion being completly wrong).
Then there is efficient configuration when processing........
When running on the mainframe the code is loaded once, the memory for all the working storage strucures created. When actually processing there is no instantiating classes, or running the garbage collector etc. I re-use the same memory for each new record red in / processed / written out and all the code is normally loaded once when first called and the same code is re-used until all records processed.
Is there any way that I can replicate this within Java either in it's own JVM or running in a container such as websphere? When processing the volume of data that we do (20 million db entries + 40GB of document data avg) then anything not optimised is costing money and available processing time.

I suspect that batching is underused thoughrather
than overused.Can you elaborate on that? What kind ofconditions
would you advocate batching for? Running daily, monthly, etc reports. Or something
that feeds those.I don't disagree, I just don't even see this as 'batching'. Batching to me is when you take something that could be done incrementally and purposely doing it in large groups at set times or time-periods. If you have a daily report and you do it daily, you're just doing the most obvious approach. It might not even be the most efficient.
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I have some experience working with batch java
applications running in Unix. And I can tell you
that they did not improve anything. I suspect I would agree with that. I am not
advocating that the batching be done in java. Just
that idea that an 'incremental' process that requires
moving data versus a 'batch' process that doesn't
isn't something that I would normally consider a good
idea.I think we are thinking about different things. I'm really just talking about incremental or real-time vs. batching.
They were
actually the source of many of our issues. That
added abitrary time lags during times of lowvolumes,
sometimes adding 30 minutes or more to theprocessing
of a transaction as it waited for the nextscheduled
batch. They also made our backlogs worse in timesof
high volumes because the incoming data flow was
uneven, we would often get big batches of datafrom
partner systems (more batching, gotta love it)that
hit us when our batch process was sleeping. 5,10,
15 minutes would pass where the server ran at 10%
capacity while huge backlogs were piling up. It
didn't make anything better. It was just causing
idling.
What was the timeliness requirements for the
processing? Did it need to be completed by 2am in
the morning? Or could it have really just been
completed on demand?It was B2B transactions ASAP was the time requirement. I guess the upper limit was 6 hours or so. But batching didn't really decrease the processing time per transaction anyway and the server was never dedicated to the batch or anything so there were still context switches.
It just seems to me that in Java with all the nice
threading we have access to, the server shouldnever
be idle and if you cannot handle your volume youare
better off adding more servers, not attempting to
batch things.I have created applications that were intended to run
'batch' jobs which could be spread across servers.
Those particular processes had to finish within a
very narrow time span as well - about two hours as I
recall. There was an incremental as well as batch
functionality that needed to be run for this. The
batch functionality ran on the database. The
incremental took the batched results and handle the
incremental part.
Although management was never willing to dedicate
more than one server to the processing so I guess it
wasn't that important to them.
I have seen apps that claimed they were 'fast'
because they did all of the incremental processing
outside of the database. The design required moving,
literally, the entire database over the network to
other servers which would then process it.
Processing it in the database would have taken
orders of less time. And that was time sensitive
data. I can't remember if that app allowed for
multiple boxes to do the processing. I do know that
the people working on it could never figure out the
bottleneck (it was scaling to something like 12
hours a day which was not acceptable.)I guess I don't see doing it on the DB as implying batching. We use triggers to drive processes in Java, COBOL, whatever.

ALBPM - Batch events and Load Balancing

Hi,
We are planning to design a BPM solution for one of our current applications. The need we have is that the BPM solution should be able to start process instances in a batch mode. We receive about 25,000 to 30,000 events in a batch file and we need to start one BPM process instance for each record. Currently we are evaluating the ALBPM, but trying to figure out a best approach to do this. Also I would like to know what will be be ther better options to configure load balance instances of BPM for this scenario. I could not find any documents from BEA to address these. Anybody tried or came across this situation? Any documents/examples that can answer or suggest options for the batch modes? Thanks in advance!

First of all, load balancing applies at various levels.
1) load balancing at the horizontal level is only achieved by creating a WLS cluster and deploying the BPM engine in the cluster.
2) load balancing at the vertical level can be achieved by creating many BPM engines and deploying processes on each Engine, this will distribute instances between the engines.
if you need to create 25k instances of the same process in a batch, there is no problem, it will queue the executions and dispatch them to the available threads.
A good approach would be to create instances in smaller chunks, to do this you can create a "batch process" that can get the file, split it in smaller chunks and process one chunk at a time. An important thing to consider when working with so many instances is that the transactions tend to get bigger and longer, so if you have a huge chunk, you can get a transaction timeout or a DB exception because of redo logs sizes.
Hope this helps!
MAriano Benitez
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Premiere CS5 Batch Export and Sony PMW-EX1R

Hey Guys!
I have multiple sequences that I need to batch export, and was wondering if there's some kind of plugin that I can use in order to do so.
Normally, I would have to select each sequence, press Command M and place it into the render queue for Media Encoder. Is there a way I can do this by selecting a batch of sequences by highlighting them and send them into the Media Encoder's Render Queue at once, rather than individually?
Also, we film on a Sony XDCAM PMW-EX1R and need a workflow to help us out with compression.
We're working on MAC PRO's and so Media Encoder doesn't have a WMV compression setting for our computers, and the MOV settings give us weird bugs on our website. So to work around this we use Compressor to compress a raw file into various MOV and WMV movies and use Media Encoder to encode F4V files.
We export from Media Encoder in h.264 with a .mp4 extension to try and replicate what our camera shoots in, but I have a feeling that that might not be the correct format to do this in because Compressor gives us this weird Frame issue where it places a single random Frame at the very beginning of our video.
Is there a better export option for Sony XDCAM PMW-EX1R users that will give us a fairly small file size and also have great quality to match our original footage, as well as not having us have to wait long periods of time for export?
We've tried
Quicktime ProRes 422
Quicktime Uncompressed
Animation
Jpeg Sequence
And they all gave us extremely large file sizes (which I understood since they're lossless) and H.264 seemed to give us as big of a file size as FCP did with it's MOV files which is what we're trying to do.

So you're saying that I basically have to pick either using a file that isn't good for delivering content, or selecting a file that's big in size and long to export?
Well, look at it this way: if you want the highest quality output, you want to start with the highest quality source. If you're exporting from Premiere or through AME to a deliverable file--like a WMV or an H.264 MP4--you're all set, because you're accessing the original source media and unrendered effects as they exist in the Premiere Pro sequence. If you're exporting from a different app, you want the most pristine source file to create your deliverable.
Let's say you make apple juice. If you get whole apples from the orchard and press them, you make some mighty delicious juice. However, if you're trying to cut down on shipping costs, and you have the farmer smash the apples into chunky apple sauce so that you can fit more apples in the same amount of space, you can still make juice... but it won't be quite as tasty It's sort of the same with encoding...
An intermediate file will take up more space, because it's uncompressed (or less compressed), but it shouldn't take as long to generate, either--again, because you're not compressing it or you're compressing it less than your final deliverable. Obviously, there are dozens of codecs you could potentially use, so there's a fair bit of experimentation you need to do to determine the best combination for your purposes. There is no "one size fits all" when it comes to encoding, unfortunately; it's a path fraught with compromises.

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