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Parallel Concurrent Processing

Why Concurrent Processing? what is the Business Need for Concurrent Processing

We all use Concurrent Manager in Ebuiness Suite. I am reiterating the uses of it here

1) It Facilitates User Interaction
2) Long running jobs are performed in the background to avoid interference with interactive operations
3) Improve the efficiency of Applications
4) All background processing is controlled, scheduled, and executed by Concurrent Processing
5) Resource-intensive background jobs run 24×7
6) Concurrent Processing works when your users don’t. We can schedule night jobs
7) it has High Availability and Failover features. Multiple Concurrent Processing  Servers provide failover and directed load

We have already explained the working of various concurrent managers in the post

Oracle concurrent Manager

What is PCP?

Parallel Concurrent Processing (PCP) allows you to distribute concurrent managers across multiple servers in order to distribute the processing load as well as to increase Concurrent Manager (CM) availability. When configuring the system, you can determine where to place each of the concurrent managers.


How Automatic Parallel Concurrent Processing or PCP works

1)It is by default on in R12 and R11i (latest patch set)

Oracle Parallel concurrent processing

2) Generic Service Management (GSM) will automatically enforce Parallel Concurrent Processing (PCP) for all GSM Service Instances that have assigned Primary nodes
3) No additional configuration is needed to activate PCP.
4) Service Instances with no Primary node assignment will default to the ICM node
5) If the ICM node is not a CP Server then the default node will be an active CP Server
6)Service Instances with an assigned primary node will only be started on that node
7) Service Instances with an assigned secondary node will start on the secondary node when their primary node is unable to be pinged or the node is not online

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How Parallel Concurrent Processing Node Assignments are done

1) Each service or manager may have a primary and a secondary node.
2) Services with no primary node assignment will be assigned a default target node. In general, this will be the node where the ICM is currently running.
3) When the primary node fails, the ICM will restart the service on the secondary node.
4) If the ICM’s node fails, an Internal Monitor(FNDIMON)  can spawn a new ICM on another node.
5) Services move back to their primary nodes when those nodes come back up


How PCP and Service Managers(FNDSM) are related


1) The Service Manager is spawned from the APPS TNS Listener
2) The APPS TNS Listener (APPS_TEST) must be started on every middle-tier node in the system, and started by the user that starts ICM . The script is

For R12 $ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME

adalnctl.sh stop
adalnctl.sh start
3) ICM will not attempt to start a remote Service Manager if it is unable to TNS ping the APPS TNS Listener and will give the TNS errors in ICM logfiles
4) If the ICM is able to start a Service Manager but unable to start processes because the Instance is down, failover will occur
5) The Service Manager environment is set by gsmstart.sh and APPSORA.env as defined in listener.ora


How PCP and RAC(Real application cluster) work together

There are two configuration

Individual CM nodes connect to a single RAC node

1) The processes on a single node connected to a single RAC instance or service
2) The CP_TWO_TASK variable set in the context file indicates which instance will be used.
3) The ICM will treat instance failures the same as node failures. The profile option Concurrent:PCP Instance Check should be on
5) PCP Instance Failover requires that the TWO_TASK match the Instance in V$THREAD
6) In case of CM node down situation, the manager will fail over to the secondary node

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When CM nodes can connect to any node in RAC


1) The processes on a CM node connect to any instance in RAC
2) The CP_TWO_TASK variable should be set to TEST_BALANCE in the context file
3) The profile option Concurrent:PCP Instance Check should be off
4) The ICM will not failover on instance failure. It will just reconnect to surviving RAC instance

How  PCP works  internally

1) ICM contacts TNS Listener. TNS listener must be started on all the CM nodes
2) TNS Listener spawns Service Manager( FNDSM). Each CM node will have Service Manager( FNDSM) started
3) ICM communicates with Service Manager(FNDSM)
4) Service Manager spawns various Manager and Service processes
5) If ICM crashes due to node failures
6) Internal Monitor will spawn ICM locally when it detects ICM is down

Also Reads

Oracle Concurrent Manager: How an E-Business Suite Concurrent Manager Process Works, Oracle Concurrent Manager, What is internal monitor, What is the service manager and troubleshooting
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Core files in Oracle Concurrent manager: This page contains a description about the core file for oracle concurrent manager. Core files can be used to debug various issues in CM
Priority for concurrent Program: This post has a detailed description about changing Priority for Concurrent Program or user or request to solve user critical report running issues
Concurrent Manager Interview questions :Check out 24 Concurrent Manager Interview questions to help you in EBS interview. This consists of all sort of question on standard manager,service manager
ORA-01427 : Check out this for the solution on ORA-01427: single-row subquery returns more than one row error ,how to resolve it when it happens with Concurrent Manager

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