Archive Processor Utility

Archive Processor Utility

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The Archive Processor is part of MFD Data Archive. In contrast to the Remove MO Utility, which processes MOs one at a time moving table by table, this utility processes a batch of MOs at once moving table by table. The Archive Processor is a much faster method when a large number of MOs need to be archived.

Set the archiving Start/Stop Date/Time. Be sure to allow the utility enough time to run. If you start the processor and the Stop Time is already in the past, it will take a start/stop snapshot of the table statistics, but nothing will be archived.

Once it starts archiving a table, the utility will complete a table regardless of the Stop Date/Time. In other words, if it is scheduled to stop at 7am, but it starts a large table shortly before that time, it may run significantly past the Stop Time.

Do not terminate the Archive Processor by forcing GP to close. This may result in corrupt or lost data.

Enter the MO Change Date cut-off. Change Date is found in the Work Order Master (WO010032). Records will be selected for Archiving that are Completed or Canceled, and have a Change Date on or before the date you enter.

Before attempting to archive a large number of MOs, select an early MO Change Date Cut-off that results in a “small” number of MOs. Perform several runs on progressively larger amounts of data until you can calculate a “typical” run time give the size of your database.

Click START.

The Archive MO window starts a timer. It can take up to 1-minute for the timer to makes its first pass at starting the archiving process, so even if the Start Date/Time is “now”, or already in the past, the utility may not start immediately. The window will display “Please wait” until it is ready to begin.

Once the timer has started it will calculate how much time remains until the archiving process starts. The status message at the bottom of the window will count down each minute until the process starts.

CANCEL: Click the Cancel button to stop the process at any time (before archiving as started, or while archiving is running). If archiving has already started, it will finish the current manufacturing table, then stop. Note that when moving a large amount of data it may take some time to complete that step before it can stop. DO NOT TERMINATE DYNAMICS GP PRIOR TO A STEP COMPLETING.

Closing the Archive MO window will also cancel the timer and cancel the archiving process at the next available step.

When the Stop Archiving Date/Time is reached, archiving will stop once it completes the current step. A second statistics snapshot will be taken, and the MDA History window will open (see section MDA History).