Dynamic Parallel Processing limitation

[Former Member]

Hello,

We have a workflow that starts whenever a material change.  The workflow then finds all active PO's that are involved with this material and using the dynamic parallel processing feature, submits a subworkflow for each PO, to update it with the material changes.

The issue I'm having is that once the PO's reach 1000, workflow goes into error saying that it can only handle 999 parallel instances.  Is this a "set in stone" feature?  What can I do to process more than 999 instances?

Thanks!

Dan Stoicof

[Former Member]

Don't use dynamic parallel processing for 1000 entries. Or if you really need to do it, please explain the reason behind it. I would never do that kind of parallel processing inside a single workflow instance. Couldn't you handle this by starting 1000 separate workflows? Does the workflow need ti handle all the 1000 entries/cases/subworkflows (whatever) before the actual main workflow can be completed? If yes, why?

I think there there is some kind of internal limit of 9999 nodes per workflow, but I have never seen if there is also a limit for 999 parallel instances. In any case I believe that you are right, and there is a limit. Anyhow, even if there wasn't such a limit of 999, I would still find an alternative solution to handle the functionality in some other way than using so many parallel instances.

Regards,

Karri