Subject: Autoconfig taking more than 1 hr

Doc ID: Note: Type: PROBLEM

Last Revision Date: 06-JUN-2009 Status:

In this Document
Symptoms
Cause
Solution
References

This document is under testing. So, Please don’t implement in on the production directly. Without testing it on
the TEST environment.

By : Rahul Gupta
Path InfoTech Limited
Client Site : L.G. Electronics , Greater Noida

Applies to:
Oracle Application Object Library - Version: 11.5.10
Database Version: 9.2.0.5

Symptoms :
Autoconfig is taking more than 1 hr on DB/Concurrent Node

Cause :
txkWfClone.sh is taking more than 1hr . Query ( mentioned below ) called up by the concerned script takes
around 65 minutes and thus result the overall autoconfig timings to more than 1 hr .

UPDATE WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES WIAV

SET WIAV.TEXT_VALUE = REPLACE(WIAV.TEXT_VALUE,:B1,:B2)
WHERE (WIAV.ITEM_TYPE, WIAV.NAME) =
(SELECT WIA.ITEM_TYPE, WIA.NAME FROM WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTES WIA WHERE WIA.TYPE = 'URL'
AND WIA.ITEM_TYPE = WIAV.ITEM_TYPE
AND WIA.NAME = WIAV.NAME)
AND WIAV.TEXT_VALUE IS NOT NULL
AND INSTR(WIAV.TEXT_VALUE, :B1) > 0
Size of the table “WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES” is around 30G and the full table scan of it is taking a
large amount of time . Since the cardinality of the columns involves is very low , thus the optimizer is also not
picking up the composite index ( Index name : WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES_PK)
.

Solution / Workaround :
Use the parallel to speed up the full table access. Following line should be changed in the package
WF_CLONE from:

update WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES wiav

set wiav.text_value =
replace(wiav.text_value,source_web_agent,target_web_agent)
where (wiav.item_type, wiav.name) =
(select wia.item_type, wia.name
from WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTES wia
where wia.type = 'URL'
and wia.item_type = wiav.item_type
and wia.name = wiav.name)
and wiav.text_value is not null
and instr(wiav.text_value,source_web_agent) > 0 ;

to

update /*+ full(wiav) parallel(wiav,20) */ WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES wiav

set wiav.text_value =
replace(wiav.text_value,source_web_agent,target_web_agent)
where (wiav.item_type, wiav.name) =
(select wia.item_type, wia.name
from WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTES wia
where wia.type = 'URL'
and wia.item_type = wiav.item_type
and wia.name = wiav.name)
and wiav.text_value is not null
and instr(wiav.text_value,source_web_agent) > 0 ;

Also check the MAX_PARALLEL_SERVERS on your site .After making the following changes , overall time
of autoconfig will reduce to 10~12 minutes ( Previously it
was taking more than 1 hr )

References
BUG 5503192 - TXKWFCLONE.SH IS TAKING A HUGE AMOUNT OF TIME DURING AUTOCONFIG
298550.1 - Troubleshooting Workflow Data Growth Issues
SR Number - 7371131.992