As you would be aware of the fact, that the concurrent programs or requests are specific for an application (or responsibility) so you will have to decide the application in which you want to keep your request in, like GL (General Ledger) or AP (Account Payables) or any other application. This is important because you will be able to see your request only when you are logged in this particular application (or responsibility).
Place your Control File in the $APPL_TOP/11.5.0/bin of your application. (e.g. I am keeping my control file in AP and hence the corresponding directory is /u02/apps/visappl/ap/11.5.0/bin. It may be different for your system). This is all you have to do at the backend.
Log in the E-Business Suite in ‘System Administrator’ responsibility.
First we need to define the Executable for the Concurrent Program. Basically this step specifies the Execution Method and Execution File Name our Concurrent Program will be using.
Go Concurrent:Program:Executable
Enter Executable (any name you want to give), Short Name, Application (Select the same application, where you have kept your Control File), Execution Method (Select SQL*Loader), Execution File Name (name of your Control File, without extension. The system locates this file in the path where you kept it, the /bin of the application you specified above). Save the record.
Go Concurrent:Program:Define
OK, time to define the program. Enter Program Name, Short Name, Application (Select the same application, where
you have kept your Control File and which you selected while creating Executable). Enter the Executable (Select the executable you created above). Save the record.
Go Concurrent:Set
Now we have to add our Concurrent Program to a request set. A Request Set clubs many Concurrent Programs together and they are executed according to 'stages'. Each stage is given a 'Display Sequence' which, as the name suggests, controls the execution order. Your set may have only one stage, which means that it has only one Concurrent Program associated with it.
Enter Set name, Set Code, Application (same as selected earlier). Press 'Define Stages' button. Enter Display Sequence (give 1), Stage name and Stage Code. Press 'Requests' button. Now we have to associate the Program name with this stage. Enter Sequence, Program name (same as given to the Concurrent Program defined earlier). Save everything.
And you are done! Switch to the responsibility you defined the request for and submit the request for running your Concurrent Program.
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