Building semi-automatic conflict resolution

Hi All,
Interesting challenge: When a conflict occurs, my client does not want to bother the operator with the conflict resolution. So in most cases my client wants the conflicts to be solved automatically (which in the simpler cases is not that difficult - somebody changed an attribute on a record that does not affect your work, but does create a conflict when merging your workspace), unless the conflict is too difficult: then a message should simply say: impossible at this time.
So here is the workflow I have in mind:
User A creates a workspace wA
User B creates a workspace wB
User B edits attribute C of record 1234 in wB
User B Commits
User A edits attribute D of record 1234 in wA
User A Commits, gets a conflict
Software checks changes
sees that this change will not conflict
"reloads" original record 1234
makes the change on attribute D
Commits again
Is this doable? I'd like to think so, but have no time for a real test in code.
Thanks,
Stefan

hi Stefan,
we're not exactly having the same requirements as your customer does, but some quite similar ones.
that's a quite interesting scenario you have, so here's a question.
how do you do the "reload original record" thing? is it something like this?:
- user A begins merge session (whereas "session" means in our case the user opens the merge/refresh tooling of our application)
- detect conflict on record 1234
- load record 1234 (with the change C already applied) from wB
- add change D to the record
- store record 1234 with now changes C and D into workspace wA
- run merge and commit the change on record 1234 with conflict resolution set to KEEP_CHILD
- end merge session
we also thought about such kind of operations, though we never really got warm with it as we don't like the idea of applying automatic
background patches to data, but probably there is no real choice :)
regards,
Andreas

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I_STRUCTURE_NAME             =
I_CLIENT_NEVER_DISPLAY       = 'X'
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Hi,
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it_fieldcat-fieldname   = 'ERDAT'.
it_fieldcat-seltext_m   = text-005.
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it_fieldcat-seltext_m   = text-007.
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Dear all,
Environment #    32 bit win2k3, SAP   & Orc with 10.2.0.2.0
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Phase ADDON_CONFLICTS_?: Explanation of Errors
onflicts were found between the Support Packages that you want to
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o include the CRTs in the queue, proceed as follows:
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Leave this screen by choosing 'Cancel' (F12).
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Service Marketplace or request them from your Add-On supplier.
Define the extended queue again in the Support Package Manager.
Import the queue. The Support Package Manager executes all steps from
the beginning.
f the problem involves an SAP Add-On, see SAP Note 53902, which tells
ou which CRTs resolve the conflicts. Otherwise contact the supplier of
our Add-On for details on how to proceed.
he following contains a table of Support Packages for each Add-On for
hich conflicts were detected. The column 'Information on the Conflict
esolution' specifies how you can resolve a conflict. For more
nformation, select the corresponding 'Information for the Conflict
esolution'.
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Dear Sunny,
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SAP Solution Manager 7.0 (Software component ST 400)
ST 400 SP16 (SAPKITL426)
With SP16 (SAPKITL426) SAP strictly recommends to upgrade your ST-SER tothe release 700_2008_1 or higher. Therefore use transaction SAINT instead of transaction SPAM to patch your system to SAP Solution Manager 7.0. If you try to patch your system via SPAM and your ST-SER release is 700_2007_1 or less you will receive one of the following information within SPAM during phase ADDON_CONFLICTS_?:
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Merge/Refresh Workspace: Question concerning conflict resolution

hi!
thank's so far for answering our last question,now another question popped up during developing :)
we now have a state with our application where the user can select which objects to merge/refresh and finally commit these changes.
if there have been any conflicts he had to select a resolve operation for them. so far so good.
now, our method that performs the merging looks (no surprise) something like that: (the numbers are markers, used later on)
(1)
beginResolve();
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(2)
(3)
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(4)
ok, first question is concerning the line with the (*).
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now we split the method in two parts: one for the conflict resolution ((1) to (2) and one for the rest ((3) to (4)), both running within a transaction now. that works.
however, I feel a little bit unsafe with that, questions are:
if the first part runs in an own transaction and is commited: does the commitResolve() actually write data? or is that just something temporary on a per-session base? because, if something fails in the second part ((3) to (4)) then the transaction of that part of course rolls back fine, but the result of the conflict resolve part is probably still there? could we then, somewhere in the exception handling of the second transaction, call rollbackResolve()? or does it always have to happen within a conflict resolution session, that means, within (1) to (2)? the docs state the latter, but we're not really sure.
if something fails for whatever reason during the actual merge/refresh part, we need to make sure, that everything is rolled back to the state before
starting the whole process. it would be very dangerous to have some resolved conflicts hanging around that get merged/refreshed sometime later when the user doesn't even think about them.
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so, if you could clarify a bit on how a conflict resolution + merge/refresh session should look like concerning the management and scope of transactions, that would be really of great help and highly appreciated! the first tests worked fine with the way we have it working right now, but we always feel like there's a huge pitfall hiding somewhere ;)
best regards,
Andreas

Hi Ben,
after your explanation I agree. As the workspaces only carry the difference information of course there actually is no data in the child workspace if the object has been deleted in the parent.
I guess for the first we should not display this object to the user except when he's attempting to do a refresh, but not for a merge (or the other way round if the delete was done in the
child and NC in parent).
We didn't realize there is a rollbackTable with a WHERE clause, quite nice! Still, nothing practicable for us as we can't really know when a user might want to undo a delete and thus
which savepoint to use.
Reinserting would work, yes. We even tried that once for another scenario. Though in our case it would be important that the object also gets the same PK again, which is possible but still
feels like an ugly hack :-) Anyway, back to topic.
For the second scenario I was unfortunately mixing some WM and our users' terminology, thus it was not 100% clear. Sorry for that. What I meant was the following:
1) create new object in child
2) merge this object to parent
2a) DIFF is clear now, everything OK
3) goto parent workspace, new object is there
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5) goto child workspace again
6) open differences-viewer of our application <- here I wrote the users do a refresh, I meant they are >planning< to do a refresh, but not actually did it yet
OK, at point 6) we now get the diff information from the DIFF view and have an U for the parent and an I for the child. After your explanations and thinking over it some time we realized, that
this of course is totally correct: the last change in the parent was the update, the last change in the child the insert.
As the current version of our differences-viewer more or less displays the information from the DIFF-views in a straight way, the user now sees, that the object was updated in parent and new/inserted in child,
because those are the last operations for this row in both of the workspaces. That's what I meant is not intuitive, especially if they did not do all the operations themselves like in our small example and within
the timespan of 2 minutes.
It seems, we have to build some more abstraction around our current process?
To us it seems there are two solutions to this "problem", correct us if we oversee something:
1) currently synchronization within our application is directional, so either merge or refresh (except for conflict resolution, where the user might also want to decide to keep the object from the target workspace)
Thus we simply can ignore the DiffCode for the target workspace, except for conflicts, where we easily get the information from the CONF views
EDIT: no, we cannot simply ignore the target diffcode :( After some more thinking we have the same problem as with a real bidirectional synchronization process.
2) on the long run we actually planned to provide a bidirectional merge-tool to the user. In that case it's not that easy, as there is no single target workspace.
We didn't go into details yet, but probably we would need to retrieve further information, like e.g. the change timestamps for the DIFF rows for child and parent?
Then we could see what was actually the last change and display only that (except for U/U conflicts, but then again we get that information from the CONF view)
Any hints on how to do something like that the best way?
EDIT: We think it boils down to the question: how can we know, which parts of the DIFF have already been handled in a merge/refresh before and which haven't?
And another question, this time concerning the original topic: conflict resolution.
Is it possible in some way to ignore conflicts during a merge or refresh? Our users will definitely need that. The only idea we came up with yet would be again to use a savepoint (as you suggested
already concerning error rollback), that is have a savepoint (e.g. for the last time the workspace was synchronized) and then "fake resolve" the conflict (use CHILD with resolveconflicts) but do not
include the row in the following mergeTable() call. After merging has succeeded, use rollbackTable() for that row to the previous savepoint. Would that work?
Thanks again and regards,
Andreas Schilling
Edited by: aschilling on Dec 15, 2009 9:33 AM

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Field catalog not generated using semi automatic method

Hi,
I have this structure defined in my program.
TYPE: BEGIN OF TY_OUTPUT,
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           BUSAB TYPE BUSAB,
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           CAT02 TYPE WRBTR,
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           CAT04 TYPE WRBTR,
           CAT05 TYPE WRBTR,
           CAT06 TYPE WRBTR,
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CALL FUNCTION 'LVC_FIELDCATALOG_MERGE'
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      CT_FIELDCAT            = P_GT_FIELDCAT[]
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you need to pass a standard or z-structure created using se11 in parameter
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Hi,
I am testing Materialized View Replication (one master site and one MV site) .To resolve
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BEGIN
DBMS_REPCAT.ALTER_MASTER_REPOBJECT (sname => 'repuser',
oname => 'Name',type => 'TABLE',ddl_text => 'ALTER TABLE repuser.Name ADD (site VARCHAR2(20))');END;/
BEGIN
DBMS_REPCAT.GENERATE_REPLICATION_SUPPORT (sname => 'repuser',oname => 'name',type => 'TABLE',
min_communication => TRUE);END;/
BEGIN
DBMS_REPCAT.CREATE_MASTER_REPOBJECT (gname => 'rep_repg',
type => 'TRIGGER',oname => 'insert_site',sname => 'repuser',ddl_text => 'CREATE TRIGGER repuser.insert_site
BEFORE UPDATE ON repuser.name FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
IF DBMS_REPUTIL.FROM_REMOTE = FALSE THEN
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BEGIN
DBMS_REPCAT.MAKE_COLUMN_GROUP (sname => 'repuser',
oname => 'Name',column_group => 'name_sitepriority_cg',
list_of_column_names => 'S_NO,FIRSTNAME,LASTNAME,site');
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DBMS_REPCAT.DEFINE_SITE_PRIORITY (gname => 'rep_repg',
name => 'name_sitepriority_pg');END;/
BEGIN
DBMS_REPCAT.ADD_SITE_PRIORITY_SITE (gname => 'rep_repg',
name => 'name_sitepriority_pg',site => 'orcl.world',
priority => 100);END;/
BEGIN
DBMS_REPCAT.ADD_SITE_PRIORITY_SITE (gname => 'rep_repg',
name => 'name_sitepriority_pg',site => 'mvsite1.world',
priority => 50);END;/
BEGIN
DBMS_REPCAT.ADD_UPDATE_RESOLUTION (sname => 'repuser',
oname => 'Name',column_group => 'name_sitepriority_cg',
sequence_no => 1,method => 'SITE PRIORITY',
parameter_column_name => 'site',
priority_group => 'name_sitepriority_pg');END;/
BEGIN
DBMS_REPCAT.GENERATE_REPLICATION_SUPPORT (sname => 'repuser',oname => 'Name',type => 'TABLE', min_communication => TRUE);END;/
BEGIN
DBMS_REPCAT.RESUME_MASTER_ACTIVITY (
gname => 'rep_repg');END;/

How to query the conflict resolution actually implemente

Hi all.
Can anyone tell me an easy way to report the conflict resolution procedures that a replicated object has implemented?
How do I know if a table has for example, site priority resolution and how it is done?
In general, is there a script to report all the replication configuration being used?
Thank you.

Assuming you are referring to Streams, you can download a Streams health check script at My Oracle Support (be sure to get the correct version, they cover 10gR1, R2, 11gR1, and R2). The output of the script will detail all of your rules and rule sets, process names, users, and so on. If you are calling a procedure to deal with conflict resolution, the action on error should reflect your procedure name, as an example.
If you are referring to GoldenGate, you can look at the appropriate parameter files (typically Replicat for conflict resolution purposes).
In either case, there is no setting or parameter that tags one source as the primary (or not). That designation is from a coding perspective. This implies that you capture the source of a record so you can evaluate "if error (whatever it is), then use record from source A."

Semi-automatic update/upgrade; is Arch wrong distro for these boxen?

I wanted to post here a semi-automatic update/upgrade solution I--with a lot of help from someone more knowledgeable--came up with in case it might be of benefit to anyone else. It's been working pretty well for me over the course of the last couple of weeks and should aid me in becoming a better Archer. I also want to ask in this thread for confirmation on whether installing Arch on a couple of machines I have that see fairly intermittent use is inadvisable: if so, I'll look into installing some other distro. First the semi-automatic update solution.
To begin with, what do I mean by "semi-automatic?" Mainly I mean something that's only partially automatic. See, I've come to understand that automating updates/upgrades is a bad idea©™. And I think I understand why. Still, I apparently lack the discipline to be a good Archer, upgrading/updating frequently so as to conform with the philosophy. So I thought I should use my computer to help me be more disciplined: that's partly what they're for, after all, isn't it?
I decided I might make the computer help me be more disciplined, first of all, by making it issue reminders at frequent, regular intervals, that it is time to update/upgrade. Of course cron came immediatelty to mind as part of the solution, though I ended up using the remind program instead. In any case, it seemed like a solution that, not only would remind me at regular, frequent intervals would be desireable, but one that would at the same time initiate the process, would be even better. I thought it must be possible to, for example, cause a terminal to open with a message and corresponding menu that would say something like "System update/upgrade needed: proceed now? 1. Yes 2. No"
This latter would be one of the elements that makes the solution semi-automatic (as opposed to automatic). Answering 2. in that terminal would cause the terminal to simply exit. Answering 1., on the other hand, runs the command sudo pacman -Syu. There is a further level of semi-automation at this stage: you are then prompted to enter the root password before pacman -Syu will run. So, no updating/upgrading happens without input at these two stages.
I should mention as I wrap up this description of my solution that there is yet another important element to it that, while independent of it, is nonetheless related: I subscribed some weeks ago to the Arch news RSS feed. I check that daily, so an even further level of semi-automation is in play here.
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#!/bin/bash
PS3='Begin full system upgrade? '
options=("Yes" "No")
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do
case $opt in
"Yes")
echo "Beginning full system upgrade..."
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exit
"No")
exit
echo "Please choose the corresponding number"
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Now, to my question about my other machines as possible Arch install targets. The above applies to the desktop machine in my apt. which is almost always powered on and connected to the 'net: what follows applies to two different machines.
One is a laptop that I use primarily when I travel. It often sits powered off for 1-2 months between uses. The other is an alternate desktop machine in my apt. that is also infrequently used: essentially, when both the wife and I want to work on-line separately--which is not all that frequently (she prefers knitting to computing during her time at home)--it gets fired up. Again, it often sits for 1-2 months without being used.
Now, it seems to me these machines are poor targets for an Arch install because they are far more frequently off-line than on-line, powered down than powered up. Thus they are very unlikely to be updated/upgraded on any kind of regular basis, and certainly never regularly and frequently, as seems to be recommended for Arch machines.
Am I correct in assuming I should be looking for some other distro to install on these infrequently-used machines?
Thanks,
James
Last edited by jamtat (2013-02-11 22:50:09)

I like pacmatic (as suggested at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … _pacmatic). What is supposed to be wrong with it?
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Last edited by cfr (2013-02-13 01:49:24)

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