What is ASO_ORDER_FEEDBACK_T?

23rd October 2007, 02:16 pm

This articles provides insight into the functionality behind the table
ASO_ORDER_FEEDBACK_T and information on how we regained 100GB space
by performing certain tasks.

My client is into four years of implementation with a lot of applications implemented

in ERP and CRM areas. While performing database audit, our DBA team found that
the table ASO_ORDER_FEEDBACK_T was growing at an alarming rate (size was
close to 100GB). They wanted the to understand the functionality behind this table
and recommendations, if any, can be made to contain the growth. So, before we took
any action we had to perform research and recommend an action plan to manage the
growth. Here is the simple summary of what we found.

Functional Analysis

As a standard feature in Order Management there is a queue generated whenever a

sales order is booked. This table holds the queue which has complete information
about a sales order. This is a good feature if we want to execute an action in some
other application as soon the order is booked. As a seeded funcationality this queue
table holds information which is used by some applications with in Oracle
Applications. But as an extension we can always use this queue if we want to
communicate with any application of our choice. As an example if we have some
custom shipping application and we want to send messages to that system as soon the
order is booked, we can make use of this feature. Here is how it works.

This queue is built as soon the order is booked which happens in the private api that is
used to create orders: oe_order_pvt.process_order. This in turn calls the package
oe_service_util.notify_oc which builts the queue. This simple article addresses the
following questions:

1. Who subscribed to this message?

2. Who consumes this message queue?
3. Can we turn off this so that we can contain this table’s growth?
4. What is the impact of turning this off?
5. Can we add our own application get messages from order?

Subscribers

Subscribers to this message can be located in the look up type

ASO_ORDER_FEEDBACK_CRM_APPS. All the active lookup codes (enabled flag
is checked and end date is less than or equal to today’s date) in this look up type are
the subscribers. The number of queues built in this table for each order is equal to the
number of active subscribers.You can imagine the growth of this table if you are
booking a large volume of the orders on a daily basis and have no consumers for this
message based on your business needs. Oracle Applications come with four standard
subscribers for this queue that get auto installed: CN (Incentive Compensation), CS
(Cusotmer Service and actually used by Install Base), OKS (Service Contracts) and
OZF (Funds & Budgets or popularly known as Trade Management as well as Oracle
Marketing).

Who Consumes these messages?

The following programs and packages consume the queue when you run the
programs. If you do not run these programs obviously the queue grows as soon an
order is booked and never gets dequeued.

Program Application Package Name Consumes..

Name
Process Install Base csi_order_fulfill_pub.Process_old_order_lines CS Queue
Old Order
Lines -
Fulfillable
only
Funds Funds & ozf_accrual_engine.get_message OZF Queue
Accrual Budgets
Engine
AMS-TM : Oracle ams_accrual_engine.get_message OZF Queue
Funds Marketing
Accrual
Engine
Collect Oracle Sales cn_collect_orders.collect CN Queue
Orders Compensation
Service Oracle Service oks_ocint_pub.oc_interface OKS Queue
Contracts Contracts
Order
Capture
Integration

• CS or Install Base queue, when consumed, creates/updates the install base of

old fulfilled order lines that have been fulfilled prior to 11.5.6 upgrade. One
time usage.

• Between Oracle Marketing and Fund & Budgets, the OZF queue is consumed,
depending on which program and version of applicatons is used. This basically
eats into the budgeted funds of the marketing campaign allocated in these
applications. These accruals come as price adjustments or promotions from
order management. Please make sure you take an expert’s opinion in these
applications for more informaton.

• CN queue is consumed when you collect orders to pay commission for the
orders that are booked. This obviously suggests of a business process where
booked orders are used as a source to pay commisssion to the sales force.
 • When OKS queue is consumed, it creates a service contract (Service
Agreement or Extended Warranty or Warranty depending on the profile option
OKS: OM interface Contract Category setup) from order management when a
service item is associated to a line that creates/updates the install base. The
association of Service Item to the Inventory Items that is trackable in Install
Base is done using Service tab in the order lines.

Please refer to respective product documentation for more information on these

programs and their functionality.

How to generate a custom queue?

All we need to do is to subscribe your application to this queue. To achieve we enter

our custom application name (for example SHIP) as a lookup code in the lookup type
ASO_ORDER_FEEDBACK_CRM_APPS. This will generate the queue into this
code as soon the order is booked. To consume this we can use the package
aso_order_feedback_pub.get_notice with this application name (SHIP) to read the
queue followed by actual work we want to do using the information available in this
queue like shipping a custom application.

How to contain the growth of this table if we do not have any consuming
application and what is the impact?

Obviously the simplest way to contain this is by disabling the subscribers in the
lookup type.But before doing so we should make sure we have no need to run the
programs that are mentioned above, otherwise it can cause issues with a number of
applications. If we have no business need to run the program, we can safely disable
them. This will stop further growth though you are entering new orders and booking
them.

What do we do with my existing data in the queue table if we do not have any
need to run the programs?

Please refer to the metalink note 181410.1 for more information on this.

What we did?

Following the instructions in the above note, first we dropped the queue. Then after
careful analysis we disabled the subscribers to this queue as we do not use them. Then
we recreated the queue.

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