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CRM: New Rollup Patches Released

- by LuciaC

See the table below for new rollup patches released for CRM family products. Product Patch Number Reference Service Patch 17467506:R12.CS.B12.1.3:BUG FIXES FOR CS: OCTOBER'13 RUP PATCH n/a iStore Patch 16509570:R12.IBE.B- ORACLE ISTORE 12.1.3+ ROLLUP 1 Doc ID 1560963.1 Lease and Finance Management Patch 17485497:R12.OKL.B - OLFM : 1213 RUP3 DELTA 15 n/a For Trade Management and Price Protection the following Information Centers list the latest recommended patches and recently released patches: Critical, Recommended and Latest Patches for Oracle Trade Management (Doc ID 1569791.2) Critical, Recommended and Latest Patches for Oracle Price Protection (Doc ID 1305110.2)

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Installation of Alfresco in Step by Step Manner

An open source Content Management System (CMS) built on top of Java

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AutoVue for Agile Sessions at the Oracle Value Chain Summit 2013

- by Pam Petropoulos

At the upcoming Oracle Value Chain Summit, which takes place February 4 - 6, 2013 in San Francisco, CA, AutoVue Enterprise Visualization solutions will be covered in a variety of sessions within the Agile PLM solution area. Attend the following sessions during the Product Deep Dives & Demos Track, and discover the latest AutoVue for Agile capabilities, including how to streamline business processes, such as change management by creating ECRs directly from within CAD designs. Visual Decision Making to Optimize New Product Development and Introduction Date: Tuesday, February 5 Time: 12:45 pm to 1:30 pm Seeing the Forest: Next Generation Visualization Date: Wednesday, February 6 Time: 3:15 pm to 4:00 pm Next-Generation CAD Data Management: MCAD, ECAD, and Software Configuration Management Date: Wednesday, February 6 Time: 11:15 am to 12:00 pm Keep an eye on this blog for forthcoming details about each of these sessions. Don’t miss this opportunity to mingle with other AutoVue for Agile customers and meet one on one with the AutoVue product management and development team. Register now for the early bird rate of $195 and secure your spot at the Summit. Click here to register and learn more.

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AgroSense in Java Magazine November/December 2012

- by Geertjan

AgroSense, the Duke's Choice Award winning open source farm management system from the Netherlands, is featured in the hot-off-the-presses latest edition of the always awesome Java Magazine (November/December 2012): Read the whole article after subscribing for free to the magazine, via clicking the image above or by clicking this link. Note: If you're reading this and your sofware organization is doing anything at all that relates to farm management, consider porting your software to an AgroSense plugin. That would save you an immense amount of time and your users will get a comprehensive farm management system out of the box. Don't reinvent the wheel: create your farm management software on top of the AgroSense Platform!

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New whitepaper: Evolution from the Traditional Data Center to Exalogic: An Operational Perspective

- by Javier Puerta

IT organizations are struggling with the need to balance the day-to-day concerns of data center management against the business level requirements to deliver long-term value. This balancing act has proven difficult and inefficient: systems and application management tools are resource intensive and traditional infrastructure management architectures have developed over time on a project by project basis. These traditional management systems consist of multiple tools that require administrators to waste time performing too many steps to handle routine administrative tasks. Operational efficiency and agility in your enterprise are directly linked to the capabilities provided by the management layer across the entire stack, from the application, middleware, operating system, compute, network and storage. Only when this end to end capability is provided will we experience the full benefit of a scalable, efficient, responsive and secure datacenter. Managing Exalogic is substantially less complex and error prone than managing traditional systems built from individually sourced, multi-vendor components because Exalogic is designed to be administered and maintained as a single, integrated system (Figure 1). It is at the forefront of the industry-wide shift away from costly and inferior one-off platforms toward private clouds and Engineered Systems. Read the full whitepaper "Evolution from the Traditional Data Center to Exalogic: An Operational Perspective". Full document is available for download at the Exadata Partner Community Collaborative Workspace (for community members only - if you get an error message, please register for the Community first).

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New Whitepaper: Evolution from the Traditional Data Center to Exalogic: An Operational Perspective

- by Javier Puerta

IT organizations are struggling with the need to balance the day-to-day concerns of data center management against the business level requirements to deliver long-term value. This balancing act has proven difficult and inefficient: systems and application management tools are resource intensive and traditional infrastructure management architectures have developed over time on a project by project basis. These traditional management systems consist of multiple tools that require administrators to waste time performing too many steps to handle routine administrative tasks. Operational efficiency and agility in your enterprise are directly linked to the capabilities provided by the management layer across the entire stack, from the application, middleware, operating system, compute, network and storage. Only when this end to end capability is provided will we experience the full benefit of a scalable, efficient, responsive and secure datacenter. Managing Exalogic is substantially less complex and error prone than managing traditional systems built from individually sourced, multi-vendor components because Exalogic is designed to be administered and maintained as a single, integrated system (Figure 1). It is at the forefront of the industry-wide shift away from costly and inferior one-off platforms toward private clouds and Engineered Systems. Read the full whitepaper "Evolution from the Traditional Data Center to Exalogic: An Operational Perspective". Full document is available for download at the Exadata Partner Community Collaborative Workspace (for community members only - if you get an error message, please register for the Community first).

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This Week's Developer Reading List

ExpressionEngine 2, Information Architecture, and Scrum EllisLab - Information Architecture - Knowledge Management - Programming - Website

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php-cgi got SIGKILL on burst.net VPS?

- by Shawn

I got an VPS at burst.net, very cheap one, but this doesn't matter. The strange behavior of it is, the php-cgi process, which started using lighthttpd's spawn-cgi, dies every a few minutes. however, other processes are fine and great, even include a java process, and I'm sure there is no "out of memory" issue, so it's not killed by OOM killer. I used strace to trace the process, and found out it was killed by SIGKILL, hence no single log was left on the disk, just dies suddenly. Is there anyway I can find out what process/thing sent the SIGKILL to the poor php process? Filed a ticket with the vendor, but they said they won't care. strace -p 7176 Process 7176 attached - interrupt to quit wait4(-1, <unfinished ...> +++ killed by SIGKILL +++

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What type of application is this called?

- by boatingcow

I am working on a web-based application which combines elements of what my client would call a CMS (content management system) and CRM (customer relations management) but also adds in many other business-specific features such as bookings management, staff task allocation management, wages calculations, document version control etc. However, I'm struggling to find a catch-all term for this type of application so I can research how other people have gone about creating such an integrated solution. Can anyone recommend a term I can use to refer to this, both internally in our team, for the client so they know what to call the 'system' and also for me personally, so that I can ask the Stack community further questions?

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"Analyzing Performance"

Companies plan ahead with enterprise performance management.

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Executing bat file and returning the prompt

- by Lieven Cardoen

I have a problem with cruisecontrol where an ant scripts executes a bat file that doesn't give me the prompt back. As a result, the project in cruisecontrol keeps on bulding forever until I restart cruisecontrol. How can I resolve this? It's a startup.bat from wowza (Streaming Server) that I'm executing: @echo off call setenv.bat if not %WMSENVOK% == "true" goto end set _WINDOWNAME="Wowza Media Server 2" set _EXESERVER= if "%1"=="newwindow" ( set _EXESERVER=start %_WINDOWNAME% shift ) set CLASSPATH="%WMSAPP_HOME%\bin\wms-bootstrap.jar" rem cacls jmxremote.password /P username:R rem cacls jmxremote.access /P username:R rem NOTE: Here you can configure the JVM's built in JMX interface. rem See the "Server Management Console and Monitoring" chapter rem of the "User's Guide" for more information on how to configure the rem remote JMX interface in the [install-dir]/conf/Server.xml file. set JMXOPTIONS=-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote=true rem set JMXOPTIONS=%JMXOPTIONS% -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=192.168.1.7 rem set JMXOPTIONS=%JMXOPTIONS% -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1099 rem set JMXOPTIONS=%JMXOPTIONS% -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false rem set JMXOPTIONS=%JMXOPTIONS% -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false rem set JMXOPTIONS=%JMXOPTIONS% -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.password.file= "%WMSCONFIG_HOME%/conf/jmxremote.password" rem set JMXOPTIONS=%JMXOPTIONS% -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.access.file= "%WMSCONFIG_HOME%/conf/jmxremote.access" rem log interceptor com.wowza.wms.logging.LogNotify - see Javadocs for ILogNotify %_EXESERVER% "%_EXECJAVA%" %JAVA_OPTS% %JMXOPTIONS% -Dcom.wowza.wms.AppHome="%WMSAPP_HOME%" -Dcom.wowza.wms.ConfigURL="%WMSCONFIG_URL%" -Dcom.wowza.wms.ConfigHome="%WMSCONFIG_HOME%" -cp %CLASSPATH% com.wowza.wms.bootstrap.Bootstrap start :end

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Dijkstra's Bankers Algorithm

- by idea_

Could somebody please provide a step-through approach to solving the following problem using the Banker's Algorithm? How do I determine whether a "safe-state" exists? What is meant when a process can "run to completion"? In this example, I have four processes and 10 instances of the same resource. Resources Allocated | Resources Needed Process A 1 6 Process B 1 5 Process C 2 4 Process D 4 7

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EJB3 Transaction Propogation

- by Matt S.

I have a stateless bean something like: @Stateless public class MyStatelessBean implements MyStatelessLocal, MyStatelessRemote { @PersistenceContext(unitName="myPC") private EntityManager mgr; @TransationAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.SUPPORTED) public void processObjects(List<Object> objs) { // this method just processes the data; no need for a transaction for(Object obj : objs) { this.process(obj); } } @TransationAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW) public void process(Object obj) { // do some work with obj that must be in the scope of a transaction this.mgr.merge(obj); // ... this.mgr.merge(obj); // ... this.mgr.flush(); } } The typically usage then is the client would call processObjects(...), which doesn't actually interact with the entity manager. It does what it needs to do and calls process(...) individually for each object to process. The duration of process(...) is relatively short, but processObjects(...) could take a very long time to run through everything. Therefore I don't want it to maintain an open transaction. I do need the individual process(...) operations to operate within their own transaction. This should be a new transaction for every call. Lastly I'd like to keep the option open for the client to call process(...) directly. I've tried a number of different transaction types: never, not supported, supported (on processObjects) and required, requires new (on process) but I get TransactionRequiredException every time merge() is called. I've been able to make it work by splitting up the methods into two different beans: @Stateless @TransationAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.NOT_SUPPORTED) public class MyStatelessBean1 implements MyStatelessLocal1, MyStatelessRemote1 { @EJB private MyStatelessBean2 myBean2; public void processObjects(List<Object> objs) { // this method just processes the data; no need for a transaction for(Object obj : objs) { this.myBean2.process(obj); } } } @Stateless public class MyStatelessBean2 implements MyStatelessLocal2, MyStatelessRemote2 { @PersistenceContext(unitName="myPC") private EntityManager mgr; @TransationAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW) public void process(Object obj) { // do some work with obj that must be in the scope of a transaction this.mgr.merge(obj); // ... this.mgr.merge(obj); // ... this.mgr.flush(); } } but I'm still curious if it's possible to accomplish this in one class. It looks to me like the transaction manager only operates at the bean level, even when individual methods are given more specific annotations. So if I mark one method in a way to prevent the transaction from starting calling other methods within that same instance will also not create a transaction, no matter how they're marked? I'm using JBoss Application Server 4.2.1.GA, but non-specific answers are welcome / preferred.

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crash with CoUnintailize() api of COM

- by jbp117

My main process(main.exe) initilaized COM library and created a thread which creates a new process(p1.exe) this new process is again initializing COM library and after making all references as zero unintialized COM here.. the unintailezed COM in the main process (i.e main.exe) also.... When i run p1.exe individually it is successful.. but it is crashing when i create a process for p1.exe from main.exe

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crash with CoUnintialize() api of COM

- by jbp117

My main process(main.exe) initilaized COM library and created a thread which creates a new process(p1.exe) this new process is again initializing COM library and after making all references as zero unintialized COM here.. the unintailezed COM in the main process (i.e main.exe) also.... When i run p1.exe individually it is successful.. but it is crashing when i create a process for p1.exe from main.exe

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python multiprocessing member variable not set

- by Jake

In the following script, I get the "stop message received" output but the process never ends. Why is that? Is there another way to end a process besides terminate or os.kill that is along these lines? from multiprocessing import Process from time import sleep class Test(Process): def __init__(self): Process.__init__(self) self.stop = False def run(self): while self.stop == False: print "running" sleep(1.0) def end(self): print "stop message received" self.stop = True if __name__ == "__main__": test = Test() test.start() sleep(1.0) test.end() test.join()

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timing control for parallel processes

- by omrihsan

how can i control two processes to run alternately in separate terminal windows. for example i run the code for each on separate terminal windows at 11:59 and both of them wait for the time to be 12:00. at this moment process one starts execution and process two waits for say 10 seconds. then they switch, process two executes and process one waits. in this way they take turns until the process is complete.

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jQuery toggle fucntion not working as expected

- by Bunny Rabbit

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(function(){ $('div#menu div') .bind('mouseover',function(event){ popHelp(this); }) .bind('mouseout',function(event){ clearHelp(); }) .toggle( function(event){$('#menu div a').not(this).css('opacity',1);$(event.target).css('opacity',0.4)}, function(event){$(event.target).css('opacity',1)} ) $('div.item').not('#mainPage') .hide() $('#customerManagement').click(function(event){ $('.item').hide('slow'); $('#customerManagementCon').toggle('slow'); return false; }) $('#userManagement').click(function(){ $('.item').hide('slow'); $('#userManagementCon').toggle('slow'); return false; }) $('#storageManagement').click(function(){ $('.item').hide('slow'); $('#storageManagementCon').toggle('slow'); return false; }) $('#searchManagement').click(function(){ $('.item').hide('slow'); $('#searchManagementCon').toggle('slow'); return false; }) $('#signOff').click(function(){ $('.item').hide('slow'); $('#signOffCon').toggle('slow'); return false; }) } ); function popHelp(ref){ var text; if(ref.id=="customerManagement") text="click here for customer management"; else if(ref.id=="userManagement") text="click here for user management"; else if(ref.id=="storageManagement") text="click here for storage management"; else if(ref.id=="searchManagement") text="search management"; else if(ref.id=="signOff") text="click here to sign off"; $('#helpConsole').append('<div class="help">'+text+'<div>'); } function clearHelp(){ $('#helpConsole > div').remove(); } </script> <style type="text/css" > #helpConsole { background-color:Aqua; margin-left:500px; width:300px; height:100px; outline-width:medium; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="menu"> <table border="2"> <thead> <tr> <th colspan="5">Welcome $Employee Name</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td><div id="customerManagement" class="menuItem"><a>Customer Management</a></div></td> <td><div id="userManagement" class="menuItem"><a>User Management</a></div></td> <td><div id="storageManagement" class="menuItem"><a>Storage Management</a></div></td> <td><div id="searchManagement" class="menuItem"><a>Search Management</a></div></td> <td><div id="signOff" class="menuItem"><a>Sign Off</a></div></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div id="helpConsole"><h3>help</h3></div> <div id="mainPage" class="item"><h1>Storage Service</h1></div> <div id="customerManagementCon" class="item"> <h3>Customer Management</h3> </div> <div id="userManagementCon" class="item"> <h3>User Management</h3> </div> <div id="storageManagementCon" class="item"> <h3>Storage Management</h3> </div> <div id="searchManagementCon" class="item"> <h3>Search Mangement</h3> </div> <div id="signOffCon" class="item"> <h3>Sign Off</h3> </div> <div id="menuItemCon" class="item">menuItem</div> </body> The toggle function in this code is not working as expected though it shows the #menu items when clicked it doesn't hide them always .

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Know more about Cache Buffer Handle

- by Liu Maclean(???)

??????«latch free:cache buffer handles???SQL????»?????cache buffer handle latch?????,?????????: “?????pin?buffer header???????buffer handle,??buffer handle?????????cache buffer handles?,??????cache buffer handles??????,???????cache???buffer handles,?????(reserved set)?????????????_db_handles_cached(???5)???,?????????????????SQL??????????????????????,????pin??????,????????handle,?????????5?cached buffer handles???handle????????????????,Oracle?????????????????pin?”????“?buffer,????????????????handle???db_block_buffers/processes,????_cursor_db_buffers_pinned???????cache buffer handles?????,??????,????????????SQL,????cache?buffer handles?????????,??????????????,???????????/?????” ????T.ASKMACLEAN.COM????,??????cache Buffer handle?????: cache buffer handle ??: ------------------------------ | Buffer state object | ------------------------------ | Place to hang the buffer | ------------------------------ | Consistent Get? | ------------------------------ | Proc Owning SO | ------------------------------ | Flags(RIR) | ------------------------------ ???? cache buffer handle SO: 70000046fdfe530, type: 24, owner: 70000041b018630, flag: INIT/-/-/0×00(buffer) (CR) PR: 70000048e92d148 FLG: 0×500000lock rls: 0, class bit: 0kcbbfbp: [BH: 7000001c7f069b0, LINK: 70000046fdfe570]where: kdswh02: kdsgrp, why: 0BH (7000001c7f069b0) file#: 12 rdba: 0×03061612 (12/398866) class: 1 ba: 7000001c70ee000set: 75 blksize: 8192 bsi: 0 set-flg: 0 pwbcnt: 0dbwrid: 2 obj: 66209 objn: 48710 tsn: 6 afn: 12hash: [700000485f12138,700000485f12138] lru: [70000025af67790,700000132f69ee0]lru-flags: hot_bufferckptq: [NULL] fileq: [NULL] objq: [700000114f5dd10,70000028bf5d620]use: [70000046fdfe570,70000046fdfe570] wait: [NULL]st: SCURRENT md: SHR tch: 0flags: affinity_lockLRBA: [0x0.0.0] HSCN: [0xffff.ffffffff] HSUB: [65535]where: kdswh02: kdsgrp, why: 0 # Example:# (buffer) (CR) PR: 37290 FLG: 0# kcbbfbp : [BH: befd8, LINK: 7836c] (WAITING) Buffer handle (X$KCBBF) kernel cache, buffer buffer_handles Query x$kcbbf – lists all the buffer handles ???? _db_handles System-wide simultaneous buffer operations ,no of buffer handles_db_handles_cached Buffer handles cached each process , no of processes default 5_cursor_db_buffers_pinned additional number of buffers a cursor can pin at once_session_kept_cursor_pins Number of cursors pins to keep in a session When a buffer is pinned it is attached to buffer state object. ??? ???????? cache buffer handles latch ? buffer pin???: SESSION A : SQL> select * from v$version; BANNER ---------------------------------------------------------------- Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.5.0 - 64bi PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.5.0 - Production CORE 10.2.0.5.0 Production TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.5.0 - Production NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.5.0 - Production SQL> create table test_cbc_handle(t1 int); Table created. SQL> insert into test_cbc_handle values(1); 1 row created. SQL> commit; Commit complete. SQL> select rowid from test_cbc_handle; ROWID ------------------ AAANO6AABAAAQZSAAA SQL> select * from test_cbc_handle where rowid='AAANO6AABAAAQZSAAA'; T1 ---------- 1 SQL> select addr,name from v$latch_parent where name='cache buffer handles'; ADDR NAME ---------------- -------------------------------------------------- 00000000600140A8 cache buffer handles SQL> select to_number('00000000600140A8','xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx') from dual; TO_NUMBER('00000000600140A8','XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX') ---------------------------------------------------- 1610694824 ??cache buffer handles????parent latch ??? child latch ???SESSION A hold ??????cache buffer handles parent latch ???? oradebug call kslgetl ??, kslgetl?oracle??get latch??? SQL> oradebug setmypid; Statement processed. SQL> oradebug call kslgetl 1610694824 1; Function returned 1 ?????SESSION B ???: SQL> select * from v$latchholder; PID SID LADDR NAME GETS ---------- ---------- ---------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- 15 141 00000000600140A8 cache buffer handles 119 cache buffer handles latch ???session A hold??,????????acquire cache buffer handle latch SQL> select * from test_cbc_handle where rowid='AAANO6AABAAAQZSAAA'; T1 ---------- 1 ?????Server Process?????? read buffer, ????????"_db_handles_cached", ??process?cache 5? cache buffer handle ??"_db_handles_cached"=0,?process????5????cache buffer handle , ???? process ???pin buffer,???hold cache buffer handle latch??????cache buffer handle SQL> alter system set "_db_handles_cached"=0 scope=spfile; System altered. ????? shutdown immediate; startup; session A: SQL> oradebug setmypid; Statement processed. SQL> oradebug call kslgetl 1610694824 1; Function returned 1 session B: select * from test_cbc_handle where rowid='AAANO6AABAAAQZSAAA'; session B hang!! WHY? SQL> oradebug setmypid; Statement processed. SQL> oradebug dump systemstate 266; Statement processed. SO: 0x11b30b7b0, type: 2, owner: (nil), flag: INIT/-/-/0x00 (process) Oracle pid=22, calls cur/top: (nil)/0x11b453c38, flag: (0) - int error: 0, call error: 0, sess error: 0, txn error 0 (post info) last post received: 0 0 0 last post received-location: No post last process to post me: none last post sent: 0 0 0 last post sent-location: No post last process posted by me: none (latch info) wait_event=0 bits=8 holding (efd=4) 600140a8 cache buffer handles level=3 SO: 0x11b305810, type: 2, owner: (nil), flag: INIT/-/-/0x00 (process) Oracle pid=10, calls cur/top: 0x11b455ac0/0x11b450a58, flag: (0) - int error: 0, call error: 0, sess error: 0, txn error 0 (post info) last post received: 0 0 0 last post received-location: No post last process to post me: none last post sent: 0 0 0 last post sent-location: No post last process posted by me: none (latch info) wait_event=0 bits=2 Location from where call was made: kcbzgs: waiting for 600140a8 cache buffer handles level=3 FBD93353:000019F0 10 162 10005 1 KSL WAIT BEG [latch: cache buffer handles] 1610694824/0x600140a8 125/0x7d 0/0x0 FF936584:00002761 10 144 10005 1 KSL WAIT BEG [latch: cache buffer handles] 1610694824/0x600140a8 125/0x7d 0/0x0 PID=22 holding ??cache buffer handles latch PID=10 ?? cache buffer handles latch, ????"_db_handles_cached"=0 ?? process??????cache buffer handles ??systemstate???? kcbbfbp cache buffer handle??, ?? "_db_handles_cached"=0 ? cache buffer handles latch?hold ?? ????cache buffer handles latch , ??? buffer?pin?????????? session A exit session B: SQL> select * from v$latchholder; no rows selected SQL> insert into test_cbc_handle values(2); 1 row created. SQL> commit; Commit complete. SQL> SQL> select t1,rowid from test_cbc_handle; T1 ROWID ---------- ------------------ 1 AAANPAAABAAAQZSAAA 2 AAANPAAABAAAQZSAAB SQL> select spid,pid from v$process where addr = ( select paddr from v$session where sid=(select distinct sid from v$mystat)); SPID PID ------------ ---------- 19251 10 ? GDB ? SPID=19215 ?debug , ?? kcbrls ????breakpoint ??? ????release buffer [oracle@vrh8 ~]$ gdb $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle 19251 GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.0.1-37.el5) Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/bin/oracle...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Attaching to program: /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/bin/oracle, process 19251 Reading symbols from /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libskgxp10.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libskgxp10.so Reading symbols from /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libhasgen10.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libhasgen10.so Reading symbols from /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libskgxn2.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libskgxn2.so Reading symbols from /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libocr10.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libocr10.so Reading symbols from /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libocrb10.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libocrb10.so Reading symbols from /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libocrutl10.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libocrutl10.so Reading symbols from /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libjox10.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libjox10.so Reading symbols from /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libclsra10.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libclsra10.so Reading symbols from /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libdbcfg10.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libdbcfg10.so Reading symbols from /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libnnz10.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /s01/oracle/product/10.2.0.5/db_1/lib/libnnz10.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libaio.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libaio.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib64/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib64/libm.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libm.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib64/libpthread.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Loaded symbols for /lib64/libpthread.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib64/libnsl.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libnsl.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib64/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib64/libnss_files.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libnss_files.so.2 0x00000035c000d940 in __read_nocancel () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (gdb) break kcbrls Breakpoint 1 at 0x10e5d24 session B: select * from test_cbc_handle where rowid='AAANPAAABAAAQZSAAA'; select hang !! GDB (gdb) c Continuing. Breakpoint 1, 0x00000000010e5d24 in kcbrls () (gdb) bt #0 0x00000000010e5d24 in kcbrls () #1 0x0000000002e87d25 in qertbFetchByUserRowID () #2 0x00000000030c62b8 in opifch2 () #3 0x00000000032327f0 in kpoal8 () #4 0x00000000013b7c10 in opiodr () #5 0x0000000003c3c9da in ttcpip () #6 0x00000000013b3144 in opitsk () #7 0x00000000013b60ec in opiino () #8 0x00000000013b7c10 in opiodr () #9 0x00000000013a92f8 in opidrv () #10 0x0000000001fa3936 in sou2o () #11 0x000000000072d40b in opimai_real () #12 0x000000000072d35c in main () SQL> oradebug setmypid; Statement processed. SQL> oradebug dump systemstate 266; Statement processed. ?????? kcbbfbp buffer cache handle ? SO state object ? BH BUFFER HEADER link??? ---------------------------------------- SO: 0x11b452348, type: 3, owner: 0x11b305810, flag: INIT/-/-/0x00 (call) sess: cur 11b41bd18, rec 0, usr 11b41bd18; depth: 0 ---------------------------------------- SO: 0x1182dc750, type: 24, owner: 0x11b452348, flag: INIT/-/-/0x00 (buffer) (CR) PR: 0x11b305810 FLG: 0x108000 class bit: (nil) kcbbfbp: [BH: 0xf2fc69f8, LINK: 0x1182dc790] where: kdswh05: kdsgrp, why: 0 BH (0xf2fc69f8) file#: 1 rdba: 0x00410652 (1/67154) class: 1 ba: 0xf297c000 set: 3 blksize: 8192 bsi: 0 set-flg: 2 pwbcnt: 272 dbwrid: 0 obj: 54208 objn: 54202 tsn: 0 afn: 1 hash: [f2fc47f8,1181f3038] lru: [f2fc6b88,f2fc6968] obj-flags: object_ckpt_list ckptq: [1182ecf38,1182ecf38] fileq: [1182ecf58,1182ecf58] objq: [108712a28,108712a28] use: [1182dc790,1182dc790] wait: [NULL] st: XCURRENT md: SHR tch: 12 flags: buffer_dirty gotten_in_current_mode block_written_once redo_since_read LRBA: [0xc7.73b.0] HSCN: [0x0.1cbe52] HSUB: [1] Using State Objects ---------------------------------------- SO: 0x1182dc750, type: 24, owner: 0x11b452348, flag: INIT/-/-/0x00 (buffer) (CR) PR: 0x11b305810 FLG: 0x108000 class bit: (nil) kcbbfbp: [BH: 0xf2fc69f8, LINK: 0x1182dc790] where: kdswh05: kdsgrp, why: 0 buffer tsn: 0 rdba: 0x00410652 (1/67154) scn: 0x0000.001cbe52 seq: 0x01 flg: 0x02 tail: 0xbe520601 frmt: 0x02 chkval: 0x0000 type: 0x06=trans data tab 0, row 0, @0x1f9a tl: 6 fb: --H-FL-- lb: 0x0 cc: 1 col 0: [ 2] c1 02 tab 0, row 1, @0x1f94 tl: 6 fb: --H-FL-- lb: 0x2 cc: 1 col 0: [ 2] c1 15 end_of_block_dump (buffer) (CR) PR: 0x11b305810 FLG: 0x108000 st: XCURRENT md: SHR tch: 12 ? buffer header?status= XCURRENT mode=KCBMSHARE KCBMSHR current share ????? x$kcbbf ????? cache buffer handle SQL> select distinct KCBBPBH from x$kcbbf ; KCBBPBH ---------------- 00 00000000F2FC69F8 ==>0xf2fc69f8 SQL> select * from x$kcbbf where kcbbpbh='00000000F2FC69F8'; ADDR INDX INST_ID KCBBFSO_TYP KCBBFSO_FLG KCBBFSO_OWN ---------------- ---------- ---------- ----------- ----------- ---------------- KCBBFFLG KCBBFCR KCBBFCM KCBBFMBR KCBBPBH ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------------- ---------------- KCBBPBF X0KCBBPBH X0KCBBPBF X1KCBBPBH ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- X1KCBBPBF KCBBFBH KCBBFWHR KCBBFWHY ---------------- ---------------- ---------- ---------- 00000001182DC750 748 1 24 1 000000011B452348 1081344 1 0 00 00000000F2FC69F8 00000001182DC750 00 00000001182DC750 00 00000001182DC7F8 00 583 0 SQL> desc x$kcbbf; Name Null? Type ----------------------------------------- -------- ---------------------------- ADDR RAW(8) INDX NUMBER INST_ID NUMBER KCBBFSO_TYP NUMBER KCBBFSO_FLG NUMBER KCBBFSO_OWN RAW(8) KCBBFFLG NUMBER KCBBFCR NUMBER KCBBFCM NUMBER KCBBFMBR RAW(8) KCBBPBH RAW(8) KCBBPBF RAW(8) X0KCBBPBH RAW(8) X0KCBBPBF RAW(8) X1KCBBPBH RAW(8) X1KCBBPBF RAW(8) KCBBFBH RAW(8) KCBBFWHR NUMBER KCBBFWHY NUMBER gdb ?? ?process??????kcbrls release buffer? ???cache buffer handle??? SQL> select distinct KCBBPBH from x$kcbbf ; KCBBPBH ---------------- 00

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Exchange 2010 Hub Transport Role Fails - Registry Keys Missing?

- by DKNUCKLES

I've inherited an attempted Exchange 2010 implementation from a colleague that apparently failed. I've almost managed to bring it back from the dead, but the Hub Transport role fails to install with the following error [10/06/2012 02:30:44.0119] [2] Beginning processing Set-LocalPermissions -Feature:'Bridgehead' [10/06/2012 02:30:44.0166] [2] [ERROR] Unexpected Error [10/06/2012 02:30:44.0166] [2] [ERROR] The registry key "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ExchangeServer\v14\Transport" does not exist under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE". [10/06/2012 02:30:44.0182] [2] Ending processing Set-LocalPermissions [10/06/2012 02:30:44.0182] [1] The following 1 error(s) occurred during task execution: [10/06/2012 02:30:44.0182] [1] 0. ErrorRecord: The registry key "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ExchangeServer\v14\Transport" does not exist under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE". [10/06/2012 02:30:44.0182] [1] 0. ErrorRecord: System.ArgumentException: The registry key "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ExchangeServer\v14\Transport" does not exist under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE". at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.SetLocalPermissions.GetTargetRegistryKey(XmlNode targetNode) at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.SetLocalPermissions.ChangePermissions[TTarget,TSecurity,TAccessRule,TRights](XmlNode targetNode, Dictionary`2 rightsDictionary, GetTarget`1 getTarget, GetOrginalPermissionsOnTarget`2 getOrginalPermissionsOnTarget, SetPermissionsOnTarget`2 setPermissionsOnTarget, CreateAccessRule`2 createAccessRule, AddAccessRule`2 addAccessRule, RemoveAccessRuleAll`1 removeAccessRuleAll) at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.SetLocalPermissions.SetPermissionsOnCurrentLevel[TTarget,TSecurity,TAccessRule,TRights](XmlNode permissionSetNode, String targetType, Dictionary`2 rightsDictionary, GetTarget`1 getTarget, GetOrginalPermissionsOnTarget`2 getOrginalPermissionsOnTarget, SetPermissionsOnTarget`2 setPermissionsOnTarget, CreateAccessRule`2 createAccessRule, AddAccessRule`2 addAccessRule, RemoveAccessRuleAll`1 removeAccessRuleAll) at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.SetLocalPermissions.SetPermissionsOnCurrentLevel(XmlNode permissionSetNode) at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.SetLocalPermissions.SetFeaturePermissions(String feature) at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.SetLocalPermissions.InternalProcessRecord() [10/06/2012 02:30:44.0197] [1] [ERROR] The following error was generated when "$error.Clear(); Set-LocalPermissions -Feature:"Bridgehead" " was run: "The registry key "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ExchangeServer\v14\Transport" does not exist under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE".". [10/06/2012 02:30:44.0197] [1] [ERROR] The registry key "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ExchangeServer\v14\Transport" does not exist under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE". [10/06/2012 02:30:44.0197] [1] [ERROR-REFERENCE] Id=BridgeheadLocalPermissionsComponent___2e2dbc2a97cb4429bc2074edc50bedbd Component=EXCHANGE14:\Current\Release\Shared\Datacenter\Setup [10/06/2012 02:30:44.0197] [1] Setup is stopping now because of one or more critical errors. [10/06/2012 02:30:44.0197] [1] Finished executing component tasks. [10/06/2012 02:30:44.0244] [1] Ending processing Install-BridgeheadRole I've been unable to find any documentation on how to resolve this issue. Any help would be appreciated.

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Apache 2.2 and FastCGI stops responding, warnings, crashes

- by Brett

I've seen this question posted a few times using a Google search, with no real answers. I have a multi-threaded FastCGI application running with Apache 2.2 on FreeBSD 7.2. There are a few issues with it, and I am unable to really figure out the source of the problem even after poking through a bunch of the mod_fastcgi source code. My FastCGI application gets anywhere from 2 to 15 or so hits per second, and mostly services a back-end API (the majority of web server usage is for this, and not actually serving content). Everything seems to work ok under normal conditions, but recently this problem has been becoming worse. It starts out with the FastCGI process manager apparently trying to close unneeded processes, sending them a SIGTERM signal. I catch the signal, clean up some stuff, and exit (by calling exit()) with status code 0. This process seems to result in three log messages in my httpd error log: [Tue Jun 01 14:03:31 2010] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/home/program/wwwroot/domains/www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/program.cgi" (pid 98182) termination signaled [Tue Jun 01 14:03:31 2010] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/home/program/wwwroot/domains/www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/program.cgi" (pid 98182) terminated by calling exit with status '0' [Tue Jun 01 14:03:31 2010] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/home/program/wwwroot/domains/www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/program.cgi" restarted (pid 98294) I am not sure why it says it is restarting the process, but in any case no core dump is ever generated so I do believe it is the FastCGI process manager doing it's thing. This makes sense because it begins to happen after the initial load increase from restarting Apache. Since it's down for a few seconds, it gets hit with a couple of hundred requests over the first few seconds it's running again (sometimes even hitting the upper limit of MAXCLIENTS in Apache), and this seems to be the process manager doing the work of spawning more processes to handle the increased load. So this all seems fine, but here is where things get weird. There are really two problems that I see. First, my multithreaded FastCGI process spawns 25 worker threads, and all seem to be used according to my internal log files (multiple processes are clearly using multiple threads to do work). However it seems that 3 or 4 FastCGI processes is not enough to handle the 5 to 15 hit per second load, even though the requests take about .02s or so to process internally. In order to be at all responsive, it seems I need 50 or more FastCGI processes, leading me to believe that FastCGI does not realize that my program is multithreaded. I've read the documentation at http://www.fastcgi.com/mod_fastcgi/docs/mod_fastcgi.html and do not see any option pertaining to multithreaded-ness, and my internal code is more or less set up just like the examples provided by the FastCGI library. The second problem I am having is that once process termination has happened a bunch of times as above (and seemingly at random), I begin getting a lot of these messages in my error log: [Tue Jun 01 14:06:22 2010] [warn] (32)Broken pipe: FastCGI: write() to PM failed (ignore if a restart or shutdown is pending) The messages occur for about half the hits I get to the server, and it completely kills the responsiveness of my application - it seems FastCGI will look for a working "pipe" until it finds one, and fail to realize that whatever application it is trying to contact is dead. It does still work though, it's just incredibly unresponsive - sometimes taking up to 40 or so seconds to process a request. I recompiled mod_fastcgi with some extra debugging around the point of the error message, and it appears that the error happens when it tries to write() to the application. The call to write() fails with a -1 return code, and sets errno to EPIPE. I am noticing that the issue happens mostly when either a crash occurs in one of the FastCGI processes, or a bunch of them are seemingly terminated by the process manager. I haven't had any core dumps though, except for one, where the backtrace outputted by gdb is just a single call to free() at address 0x0000000000000000 with nothing else in the stack trace, so I don't really know what to make of that. I'm thinking it happens sometime after the SIGTERM signal is caught, maybe some global variable not being cleaned up properly or something.

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Windows Azure Use Case: Agility

- by BuckWoody

This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx Description: Agility in this context is defined as the ability to quickly develop and deploy an application. In theory, the speed at which your organization can develop and deploy an application on available hardware is identical to what you could deploy in a distributed environment. But in practice, this is not always the case. Having an option to use a distributed environment can be much faster for the deployment and even the development process. Implementation: When an organization designs code, they are essentially becoming a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider to their own organization. To do that, the IT operations team becomes the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to the development teams. From there, the software is developed and deployed using an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) process. A simplified view of an ALM process is as follows: Requirements Analysis Design and Development Implementation Testing Deployment to Production Maintenance In an on-premise environment, this often equates to the following process map: Requirements Business requirements formed by Business Analysts, Developers and Data Professionals. Analysis Feasibility studies, including physical plant, security, manpower and other resources. Request is placed on the work task list if approved. Design and Development Code written according to organization’s chosen methodology, either on-premise or to multiple development teams on and off premise. Implementation Code checked into main branch. Code forked as needed. Testing Code deployed to on-premise Testing servers. If no server capacity available, more resources procured through standard budgeting and ordering processes. Manual and automated functional, load, security, etc. performed. Deployment to Production Server team involved to select platform and environments with available capacity. If no server capacity available, standard budgeting and procurement process followed. If no server capacity available, systems built, configured and put under standard organizational IT control. Systems configured for proper operating systems, patches, security and virus scans. System maintenance, HA/DR, backups and recovery plans configured and put into place. Maintenance Code changes evaluated and altered according to need. In a distributed computing environment like Windows Azure, the process maps a bit differently: Requirements Business requirements formed by Business Analysts, Developers and Data Professionals. Analysis Feasibility studies, including budget, security, manpower and other resources. Request is placed on the work task list if approved. Design and Development Code written according to organization’s chosen methodology, either on-premise or to multiple development teams on and off premise. Implementation Code checked into main branch. Code forked as needed. Testing Code deployed to Azure. Manual and automated functional, load, security, etc. performed. Deployment to Production Code deployed to Azure. Point in time backup and recovery plans configured and put into place.(HA/DR and automated backups already present in Azure fabric) Maintenance Code changes evaluated and altered according to need. This means that several steps can be removed or expedited. It also means that the business function requesting the application can be held directly responsible for the funding of that request, speeding the process further since the IT budgeting process may not be involved in the Azure scenario. An additional benefit is the “Azure Marketplace”, In effect this becomes an app store for Enterprises to select pre-defined code and data applications to mesh or bolt-in to their current code, possibly saving development time. Resources: Whitepaper download- What is ALM? http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743693 Whitepaper download - ALM and Business Strategy: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743690 LiveMeeting Recording on ALM and Windows Azure (registration required, but free): http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/visualstudio/contact-us.aspx?sbj=Developing with Windows Azure (ALM perspective) - 10:00-11:00 - 19th Jan 2011

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Creating a Synchronous BPEL composite using File Adapter

- by [email protected]

By default, the JDeveloper wizard generates asynchronous WSDLs when you use technology adapters. Typically, a user follows these steps when creating an adapter scenario in 11g: 1) Create a SOA Application with either "Composite with BPEL" or an "Empty Composite". Furthermore, if the user chooses "Empty Composite", then he or she is required to drop the "BPEL Process" from the "Service Components" pane onto the SOA Composite Editor. Either way, the user comes to the screen below where he/she fills in the process details. Please note that the user is required to choose "Define Service Later" as the template. 2) Creates the inbound service and outbound references and wires them with the BPEL component: 3) And, finally creates the BPEL process with the initiating <receive> activity to retrieve the payload and an <invoke> activity to write the payload. This is how most BPEL processes that use Adapters are modeled. And, if we scrutinize the generated WSDL, we can clearly see that the generated WSDL is one way and that makes the BPEL process asynchronous (see below) In other words, the inbound FileAdapter would poll for files in the directory and for every file that it finds there, it would translate the content into XML and publish to BPEL. But, since the BPEL process is asynchronous, the adapter would return immediately after the publish and perform the required post processing e.g. deletion/archival and so on. The disadvantage with such asynchronous BPEL processes is that it becomes difficult to throttle the inbound adapter. In otherwords, the inbound adapter would keep sending messages to BPEL without waiting for the downstream business processes to complete. This might lead to several issues including higher memory usage, CPU usage and so on. In order to alleviate these problems, we will manually tweak the WSDL and BPEL artifacts into synchronous processes. Once we have synchronous BPEL processes, the inbound adapter would automatically throttle itself since the adapter would be forced to wait for the downstream process to complete with a <reply> before processing the next file or message and so on. Please see the tweaked WSDL below and please note that we have converted the one-way to a two-way WSDL and thereby making the WSDL synchronous: Add a <reply> activity to the inbound adapter partnerlink at the end of your BPEL process e.g. Finally, your process will look like this: You are done. Please remember that such an excercise is NOT required for Mediator since the Mediator routing rules are sequential by default. In other words, the Mediator uses the caller thread (inbound file adapter thread) for processing the routing rules. This is the case even if the WSDL for mediator is one-way.

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Managing Operational Risk of Financial Services Processes – part 2/2

- by Sanjeev Sharma

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} In my earlier blog post, I had described the factors that lead to compliance complexity of financial services processes. In this post, I will outline the business implications of the increasing process compliance complexity and the specific role of BPM in addressing the operational risk reduction objectives of regulatory compliance. First, let’s look at the business implications of increasing complexity of process compliance for financial institutions: · Increased time and cost of compliance due to duplication of effort in conforming to regulatory requirements due to process changes driven by evolving regulatory mandates, shifting business priorities or internal/external audit requirements · Delays in audit reporting due to quality issues in reconciling non-standard process KPIs and integrity concerns arising from the need to rely on multiple data sources for a given process Next, let’s consider some approaches to managing the operational risk of business processes. Financial institutions considering reducing operational risk of their processes, generally speaking, have two choices: · Rip-and-replace existing applications with new off-the shelf applications. · Extend capabilities of existing applications by modeling their data and process interactions, with other applications or user-channels, outside of the application boundary using BPM. The benefit of the first approach is that compliance with new regulatory requirements would be embedded within the boundaries of these applications. However pre-built compliance of any packaged application or custom-built application should not be mistaken as a one-shot fix for future compliance needs. The reason is that business needs and regulatory requirements inevitably out grow end-to-end capabilities of even the most comprehensive packaged or custom-built business application. Thus, processes that originally resided within the application will eventually spill outside the application boundary. It is precisely at such hand-offs between applications or between overlaying processes where vulnerabilities arise to unknown and accidental faults that potentially result in errors and lead to partial or total failure. The gist of the above argument is that processes which reside outside application boundaries, in other words, span multiple applications constitute a latent operational risk that spans the end-to-end value chain. For instance, distortion of data flowing from an account-opening application to a credit-rating system if left un-checked renders compliance with “KYC” policies void even when the “KYC” checklist was enforced at the time of data capture by the account-opening application. Oracle Business Process Management is enabling financial institutions to lower operational risk of such process ”gaps” for Financial Services processes including “Customer On-boarding”, “Quote-to-Contract”, “Deposit/Loan Origination”, “Trade Exceptions”, “Interest Claim Tracking” etc.. If you are faced with a similar challenge and need any guidance on the same feel free to drop me a note.

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Forcing an External Activation with Service Broker

- by Davide Mauri

In these last days I’ve been working quite a lot with Service Broker, a technology I’m really happy to work with, since it can give a lot of satisfaction. The scale-out solution one can easily build is simply astonishing. I’m helping a company to build a very scalable and – yet almost inexpensive – invoicing system that has to be able to scale out using commodity hardware. To offload the work from the main server to satellite “compute nodes” (yes, I’ve borrowed this term from PDW) we’re using Service Broker and the External Activator application available in the SQL Server Feature Pack. For those who are not used to work with SSB, the External Activation is a feature that allows you to intercept the arrival of a message in a queue right from your application code. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171617.aspx (Look for “Event-Based Activation”) In order to make life even more easier, Microsoft released the External Activation application that saves you even from writing even this code. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql_service_broker/archive/tags/external+activator/ The External Activator application can be configured to execute your own application so that each time a message – an invoice in my case – arrives in the target queue, the invoking application is executed and the invoice is calculated. The very nice feature of External Activator is that it can automatically execute as many configured application in order to process as many messages as your system can handle. This also a lot of create a scale-out solution, leaving to the developer only a fraction of the problems that usually came with asynchronous programming. Developers are also shielded from Service Broker since everything can be encapsulated in Stored Procedures, so that – for them – developing such scale-out asynchronous solution is not much more complex than just executing a bunch of Stored Procedures. Now, if everything works correctly, you don’t have to bother of anything else. You put messages in the queue and your application, invoked by the External Activator, process them. But what happen if for some reason your application fails to process the messages. For examples, it crashes? The message is safe in the queue so you just need to process it again. But your application is invoked by the External Activator application, so now the question is, how do you wake up that app? Service Broker will engage the activation process only if certain conditions are met: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171601.aspx But how we can invoke the activation process manually, without having to wait for another message to arrive (the arrival of a new message is a condition that can fire the activation process)? The “trick” is to do manually with the activation process does: sending a system message to a queue in charge of handling External Activation messages: declare @conversationHandle uniqueidentifier; declare @n xml = N' <EVENT_INSTANCE> <EventType>QUEUE_ACTIVATION</EventType> <PostTime>' + CONVERT(CHAR(24),GETDATE(),126) + '</PostTime> <SPID>' + CAST(@@SPID AS VARCHAR(9)) + '</SPID> <ServerName>[your_server_name]</ServerName> <LoginName>[your_login_name]</LoginName> <UserName>[your_user_name]</UserName> <DatabaseName>[your_database_name]</DatabaseName> <SchemaName>[your_queue_schema_name]</SchemaName> <ObjectName>[your_queue_name]</ObjectName> <ObjectType>QUEUE</ObjectType> </EVENT_INSTANCE>' begin dialog conversation @conversationHandle from service [<your_initiator_service_name>] to service '<your_event_notification_service>' on contract [http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQL/Notifications/PostEventNotification] with encryption = off, lifetime = 6000 ; send on conversation @conversationHandle message type [http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQL/Notifications/EventNotification] (@n) ; end conversation @conversationHandle; That’s it! Put the code in a Stored Procedure and you can add to your application a button that says “Force Queue Processing” (or something similar) in order to start the activation process whenever you need it (which should not occur too frequently but it may happen). PS I know that the “fire-and-forget” (ending the conversation without waiting for an answer) technique is not a best practice, but in this case I don’t see how it can hurts so I decided to stay very close to the KISS principle []

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