Parallel processing - Single outputfile

[Former Member]

This is a question regarding own development in an IS/U environment.

When I'm running a report in a dialog process, it generates one single outputfile. However, this report needs to run for all contract accounts. This implies that it has to be scheduled for batch processing. To improve performance it will also be parallized. The result of this is that the report generates multiple outputfiles.

In the end it is required that only one single outputfile is generated.

What are the alternatives to realize this. Is there a "standard" way that SAP advises or is an example in SAP available from which the method can be copied…

I hope you can give me a push in the right direction...

[Former Member]

Hello Luc,

I don't c any way unless somebody else has some different opninion. As u are trying to use parallel mechanisum for performance benefit it is going to create separate files, what I would suggest u can set some naming convention to the files which are getting created and then at the end of the main job u can open up all the files and append them into one single file deleting the rest of them. You will have to take special care for naming the files as u may want to run this job simultanesly also.

One way is to use the job name as part of the file along with the running number.

Just a thought.