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Function documentation Optimization Run Termination  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You can use this function to terminate optimization runs in a ‘gentle’ fashion, without interrupting current processes. It is particularly suited to runs that were started interactively but can also be used for background runs. If you start an optimization run interactively, you might want to use this function in the following circumstances:

·        If you discover that you have defined a runtime that is too long and would like to perform a new optimizer run with a shorter runtime.

·        If you can conclude from the messages or graphics displayed during the optimization run that the system has already found a solution but the optimizer continues the run, trying to improve on this solution, and you want to accept the solution that has already been found and terminate the run.

Prerequisites

You can only terminate optimization runs that you have started yourself. To terminate runs started by other users, you need system administrator authorization (authorization object S_RZL_ADM that must include authorization field ACTVT – activity).

Features

·        If you terminate an optimization run, the system brings the run to a proper conclusion, which means that it saves all the data that has been determined by this point in time and creates a complete log. Any solutions found by this time are also saved and recorded in the log.

·        The system makes regular checks to see if the user has terminated the optimization run. However, it might take some time before the system receives this information and terminates all the current processes. It is not possible to ‘gently’ terminate the optimization run during its initial data collection (data reading) period.

If it takes too long to terminate the optimization run with this function, you can also terminate the run immediately. If you do this, the system does not save any data from the current run and also terminates log creation immediately, which means that the log generated might be incomplete. You need system administrator authorization to perform this abrupt optimization run termination (see the Prerequisites).

Activities

Terminating an Optimization Run Gently

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       1.      Follow this SAP APO Easy Access menu path: APO Administration Optimization System Monitoring  Terminate Optimization Runs.

       2.      Select the optimization run you wish to terminate and choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text with the quick info, Finish Optimization Run.

       3.      The system completes the data collection period if necessary, saves the data, and generates a complete log.

Terminating an Optimization Run Abruptly

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       1.      Follow this SAP APO Easy Access menu path: APO Administration Optimization System Monitoring  Process Overview.

       2.      Choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text with quick info, Display Optimizer Processes.

       3.      Select the optimization run you wish to terminate and choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Finish Process.

       4.      The system terminates the optimization run and log generation immediately. It does not save any data.

 

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