Designing background processing
4 Tasks
1 hr 30 mins
Scenario
In the MDC product delivery scenario, the business partner membership must be renewed every six months, and the partner will have the flexibility to upgrade or downgrade their membership during renewal. Renewal can be initiated at any time before the membership expires. A notification is triggered 15 days (about 2 weeks) prior to the membership expiry date, and a message is displayed on the portal until the membership is renewed.
The delivery service wants the emails to be processed efficiently.
Use the following credentials to complete the exercise:
| Role | User name | Password |
|---|---|---|
| Admin | admin@deliveryservice | rules |
Detailed Tasks
1 Identify design options
As you develop your implementation, rely on the rules in Pega Platform™. Consider the following approaches to addressing the requirements:
- Option 1: Create a single-node job scheduler that queries business partners whose expiration date is less than 15 days and sends an email to each business partner to renew their membership.
- Option 2: Create a single-node job scheduler with spun-off queue processors to send emails.
- Option 3: Open the business partner registration case and configure a service level agreement (SLA) that sends an email notification with a deadline of 15 days.
2 Evaluate design options
| Design | Pros | Cons |
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| Create a single-node job scheduler |
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| Create a single-node job scheduler with spun-off queue processors |
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| Create an SLA in an open case |
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3 Recommend the best design option
The single-node job scheduler with spun-off queue processors is the recommended approach because of its better performance.
4 Tasks to perform
- Query the business partners whose expiry dates are less than or equal to 15 days (about 2 weeks).
- Use the report definition and its pagination settings to query 50 records at a time in an incremental way.
- Queue every record to the standard queue processor to send an email.
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