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  • 1.  Reorder Crontask

    Posted 06-17-2020 14:25
    We have a lot of reorder crontasks to reorder for our storerooms. The storeroom parameter is limited to a certain length. Is it possible to increase this size of it? Just wondering what other people have done that have a large number of storerooms? Is there a way to query what storerooms you want so you can group them instead of manually entering one a time?
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    Adam Ames
    Kwik Trip, Inc.
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  • 2.  RE: Reorder Crontask

    Posted 06-19-2020 08:34
    Hi Adam,  You can create multiple cron task instances for the reorder cron task.   That should allow to split the storerooms between multiple instances and scale it up as high as is needed.

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    Mark Eaton
    Projetech
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  • 3.  RE: Reorder Crontask

    Posted 06-19-2020 09:32
    Hi Mark, thank you for the reply. Yes, that is what we currently do but I did not know if there was a better way to manage them. Right now we have 36 instances so it gets to be a bit to manage. I just didn't know if there was a better way to do it.

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    Adam Ames
    Kwik Trip, Inc.
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  • 4.  RE: Reorder Crontask

    Posted 06-19-2020 11:17
    Sorry, Adam, after re-reading...you had already eluded to using multiple instances.   Maybe someone else here has a different/better solution (lets hope!), but absent coding an alternate solution (ie. extending the reorder cron task class) it sounds to me like you are using the system as intended.  Good luck!

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    Mark Eaton
    Projetech
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  • 5.  RE: Reorder Crontask

    Posted 06-19-2020 11:30
    No worries Mark. I had a feeling that was going to be the answer. Thanks again.

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    Adam Ames
    Kwik Trip, Inc.
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  • 6.  RE: Reorder Crontask

    Posted 08-05-2020 15:41
    Adam,

    Just wondering what version of Maximo you guys are running. I am looking at the REORDER CRON right now and the storeroom parameter is a multivalue field. 

    I am not a Maximo Admin, so maybe I haven't setup enough CRON tasks, but in 7.6.1.1 I was able to add all of my storerooms from a single site into one CRON instance.

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    Anne Antonelli
    Technology Training & Consulting, Inc.
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  • 7.  RE: Reorder Crontask

    Posted 08-05-2020 15:49
    I get an error message that the value specified exceeds the maximum field length when I try to put too many storerooms in there. The REORDERCRONPARAM field STOREROOM has a length of 256. Is yours different?

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    Adam Ames
    Kwik Trip, Inc.
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  • 8.  RE: Reorder Crontask

    Posted 11-25-2022 09:53
    Hi Adam. Have you tried changing the length of the storeroom attribute. Ours is set to 256 but that is just saying your allow to enter up to 256 characters in that field.

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    Latoya Jernigan
    Boeing
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  • 9.  RE: Reorder Crontask

    Posted 11-25-2022 10:55
    Hi Latoya, thank you for the reply. We were thinking about trying that but have not yet. Did not know if there would be any repercussions downstream if that field was increased.

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    Adam Ames
    Kwik Trip, Inc.
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