Dates That Impact Excluded Times

Are there dates or times when the schedule does not need to run?

Holidays and company calendars

Holidays and company calendars can determine when the best time to run a large report or business process is. Alternatively, holidays can determine dates to exclude in your schedules.

For example, if you have a large report that is due on January 3 of each year and your company is closed January 1 for New Year's day, you may decide to schedule the report to run on January 1 when more resources are available in Sterling B2B Integrator. On the other hand, you may skip January 1 for a routine report that is not needed when the company is closed.

Periods of higher processing times during the quarter

Low priority schedules should exclude high-volume processing times.

Scheduled maintenance of Sterling B2B Integrator or other systems that integrate with Sterling B2B Integrator, either at your company or your trading partners.

Scheduled maintenance is necessary for all systems. When you are conducting maintenance on Sterling B2B Integrator or other systems that integrate with it, you can disable schedules that are to run during those periods. Or you can schedule activities around those periods. Either of these adjustments will reduce performance level problems caused by schedules attempting to run but generating errors, or schedules being placed in a waiting status.

In addition, if you consider your trading partners scheduled maintenance, you can schedule your activities around those periods and use Sterling B2B Integrator resources for other processing.