kurthatlevik: A quick look at download Retail distribution jobs (CDX)

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Источник: https://kurthatlevik.com/2018/11/18/...tion-jobs-cdx/
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Commerce Data Exchange (CDX) is a system that transfers data between the Dynamics 365 F&O headquarters database based and retail channels databases(RSSU/Offline database). The retail channels databases can the cloud based “default” channel database, the RSSU database and offline databases that is on the MPOS devices. If the look at the following figure from Microsoft docs, this blog post is explaining how to practically understand this.



What data is sent to the channel/offline databases?


In the retail menus you will find 2 menu items; Scheduler
jobs and scheduler subjobs. Here the different data that can be sent is defined.



When setting up Dynamics 365 the first time, Microsoft have defined a set to ready to use scheduler jobs that get’s automatically created by the “initialize” menu item, as described here.

Scheduler jobs is a collection of the tables that should be sent, and sub jobs contains the actual mapping between D365 F&O and channel database fields. As seen in the next picture, the fields on the table CustTable in D365 is mapped towards the AX.CUSTTABLE in the channel database.



To explore what is/can be transferred, then explore the Scheduler jobs and scheduler subjobs.

Can I see what data is actually sent to the channel/offline databases?


Yes you can! In the retail menu, you should be able to find a Commerce Data Exchange, and a menu item named “Download sessions”.



Here you should see all data that is sent to the channel databases, and here there are a menu item names “Download file”.



This will download a Zip file, that contains CSV files, that corresponds to the Scheduler
jobs and scheduler subjobs.




You can open this file in Excel to see the actual contents. (I have a few hidden columns and formatted the excel sheet to look better). So this means you can see the actual data being sent to the RSSU/Offline channel database.



All distribution jobs can be set up as batch jobs with different execution reoccurrence. If you want to make it simple but execute download distribution job 9999 to run every 30 minutes. If you have a more complex setup and need to better control when data is sent, then make separate distribution batch-jobs so that you can send new data to the channel databases in periods when there are less loads in the retail channels.

Too much data is sent to the channel databases/offline database and the MPOS is slow?


Retail is using change tracking, and this makes sure that only new and updated records is sent. This makes sure that amount of data is minimized. There is an important parameter, that controls how often a FULL distribution should be executed. By default it is 2 days. If you have lots of products and customers, we see that this generates very large distribution jobs with millions of records that will be distributed. By setting this to Zero, this will not happen. Very large distributions can cripple your POS’es, and your users will complain that the system is slow, or they get strange database errors. In version 8.1.3 it is expected to be changed to default to zero, meaning that full datasets will not be distributed automatically.



Change tracking seams not to be working?


As you may know, Dynamics 365 have also added the possibility to add change tracking on data entities when using BOYD. I have experienced that adjusting this affect the retail requirement for change tracking. If this happens, please use the Initialize retail scheduler to set this right again.



Missing upload transactions from your channel databases?


In some rare cases it have been experienced that there are missing transactions in D365, compared to what the POS is showing. The trick to resent all transactions is the following:

Run script: “delete crt.TableReplicationLog” in the RSSU DB. And the next P job will sync all transactions from RSSU DB (include missing ones).

 



Источник: https://kurthatlevik.com/2018/11/18/...tion-jobs-cdx/