Sunday 9 November 2014

Planning 11.1.2.3 – setting the cell retrieval threshold update

In a previous blog I went through the reasons why setting the cell retrieval threshold was important if you want to maintain a healthy JVM and how to interrogate a heap dump using third party software, if you have not read the post then it is probably worth having a read through it to gain some background information.

In the blog I highlighted that a patch was available for 11.1.2.2 that allowed to set the maximum cell retrieval but unfortunately this had not made it into the on-premise 11.1.2.3 as of the .500 PSU even though it was available in the cloud version, I had this light hearted message for Oracle.


Now I know Oracle would have not taken any notice of it but luckily with the recent planning 11.1.2.3.501 PSU the following defect was addressed.

18663876, 18259065 - When retrieving data through Smart View Ad-Hoc Analysis, any number of rows or columns is retrieved, despite the preferences which were set.

After applying this patch, the below mentioned property need to be set in Administrator -> Application -> Properties screen ERROR_THRESHOLD_NUM_OF_CELLS -> Value for this property will be the maximum number of cells for which the error messages is shown to the user during Ad-hoc Grid operation.

Note 1: This fix applies to Planning data simple forms, SmartView Ad-hoc and Financial Reports against Planning application.
Note 2: Unless overridden, default value of this property -ERROR_THRESHOLD_NUM_OF_CELLS is 250000 cells.


So the functionality has finally made it to 11.1.2.3 and to be sure it was working I had to test it out.

After applying the .501 PSU I created and opened an extremely large form in planning that would pass the default threshold of 250,000 cells.



Good news the functionality has been implemented, so how about a large ad-hoc Smart View retrieve through the planning layer.


All good, it is working as expected.

The remaining test it to set the planning property ERROR_THRESHOLD_NUM_OF_CELLS to control the threshold.




It is shame you still have to restart the planning web application server to apply the changes.


Running a large form confirmed that the new threshold of 10,000 cells has been honoured.


The same positive results with a Smart View ad-hoc planning retrieve.

If you are running planning 11.1.2.3 and want to use this functionality then get patching to 501 or newer.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks John, we are very happy you raised this with Oracle and it is in 11.1.2.3. Any rule of thumb sizing guidelines for the threshold level?

    Joachim

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  2. Hi,

    Thanks for this post. I have a question : does this patch resolve the problem of response time in a Smart View Ad-Hoc Analysis ? In fact, with a Smart View ad-hoc Planning retrieve, ad-hoc analysis are very long to execute.
    Thanks.
    V.

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