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BR Report Level Execution Parameters

This page describes pages that support definition of execution parameters on the IFS Business Reporter report level, i.e. these pages can be used to define report specific values for the available execution parameters. Execution parameters are either defined to apply for the complete report or only for a specific data set. This means that it is possible to control the execution of a specific data set which might be necessary if only one data set out of all available ones in a report has bad performance.

It is also possible to use these pages in order to look up the total execution time of a report, to look up the execution time for each individual data set, to find out how many data sets a report consists of and also to investigate the current and the next SQL statement for a data set.

BR Report Level Execution Parameters

The IFS Business Reporter report. The report must be published through IFS Business Reporter to appear. Publishing can be done in two ways:

  1. Ordinary Publish The report is published for access via the IFS client, i.e. it can be executed via the ordinary report framework in IFS Cloud.
  2. BR Specific Publish The report is published for access only via IFS Business Reporter. After publishing the report, use Order Report in report mode in  IFS Business Reporter to run it and then use the BR Report Level Execution Parameterspage to look up number of data sets, timings etc.

Attribute Description
Report ID The ID of the published report
Report Name The name of the published report
Published Date The date the report was published
Published for BA Access Only Selected if the report is only accessible, possible to execute, via IFS Business Reporter. If not enabled the report can be executed via the IFS client.
Created By The user ID of the report creator. This value is set automatically when the report is saved or published
Duration (sec) Time taken for the latest execution of the report in seconds.
Hint Oracle query hint to be applied to the SQL statement.

Format is /*+ <hint(s)> */

This value will be applied if it is not overridden at the data set level.
 
Execute SQL Statements Indicates whether the SQL statements corresponding to all data sets of the report should be executed during the next execution of the report.
Go to Runtime Log. Command that navigates to the latest log entries for the current report. Can be very useful in order to in more detail investigate the server execution steps.

In the EXECUTION PARAMETERS tab it is possible to add execution parameters that should affect the current report only.

Attribute Description
Parameter Name The name of the execution parameter. Only execution parameters allowed on report level can be used here.
Parameter Value The value of the execution parameter. Will be applied to all data sets of the report regardless of the global value unless it is overridden at the data set level.

The DATA SETS tab presents all data sets for the report and gives information about execution time and SQL statement used.

Attribute Description
Data Set ID The ID of the data set
Hint Oracle query hint to be applied to the SQL statement.

Format is /*+ <hint(s)> */
Execute SQL Statement Indicates whether the SQL query related to this specific data set in the current report should be executed during the next report execution
Duration (sec) Time taken for the latest execution of the data set in seconds
SQL Statement The SQL statement used for the latest execution of this data set. Statement may change from execution to execution depending on the current values of the execution parameters

By selecting a data set it is also possible to navigate to the page BR Execution Parameters for Data Set, that supports configuration of the report set level.

BR Execution Parameters for Data Set

This page presents execution information about a specific data set associated with an IFS Business Reporter report. The page enables definition of data set specific parameters in order to control the execution of that specific set. This can be useful in situations where one or a few data sets out of all the report data sets have poor performance. By investigating the associated SQL statement a remedy might be to use the execution parameters to improve the data set execution.

Attribute Description
Report ID The ID of the published report.
Report Name The name of the published report
Data Set ID The ID of the data set
Duration (sec) Time taken for the latest execution of the data set in seconds
SQL Statement The SQL statement used for the latest execution of this data set. Statement may change from execution to execution depending on the current values of the execution parameters.
Hint Oracle query hint to be applied to the SQL statement.

Format is /*+ <hint(s)> */
Execute SQL Statement Indicates whether the SQL query related to this specific data set in the current report should be executed during the next report execution

In the detail section tab it is possible to add execution parameters that should affect the current data set only.

The command Statement for Next Execution can be used to view the SQL statement for the current data set with respect to the current execution parameter settings.

Attribute Description
Parameter Name The name of the execution parameter. Only execution parameters allowed on data set level can be used here.
Parameter Value The value of the execution parameter. It will be applied to this data set regardless of the values on global and report level.

The page supports a way of investigating the affect the execution parameters have on the data set SQL statement.

  • Investigate the current SQL statement. By clicking on the notes icon relate to the SQL Statement field, a dialog that presents the used statement will be opened. The statement can now be copied and then pasted into a tool where the execution plan of the statement can be examined.
  • The investigation might give at hand that e.g. a special hint is needed, that parent conditions should not be added, that the index cost should be adjusted etc. Try to set data set execution parameters accordingly.
  • Another possibility is to add/modify one or more execution parameters and then use the command Statement for Next Execution to open a dialog where the next SQL statement with respect to current parameter settings is defined. This statement can now be copied and pasted into appropriate tool for analysis.
  • To examine the real effect of the execution parameters, the following is suggested:
    • In the BR Report Level Execution Parameters page, first use the command Disable All Data Sets.
    • Next in the DATA SETS tab and enable Execute SQL Statements   for data sets where execution parameters have been added.
    • Execute the report. Either via IFS client or via IFS Business Reporter. If the Published for BR Access Only check box is selected, then the report can only be executed via IFS Business Reporter.
    • Refresh the page and investigate the timings for the enabled data sets to figure out if the execution parameters affected the performance as expected.

More information can be found on the Example Usages page and on the Tuning Advice page.