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Hi all,

Today’s hidden gem is the “Exception Handling – Timeout(s)” option which is located at the Load Plan steps:

There are certain situations where we may have a very strict load window, which we cannot go over a certain limit of time. If this situation happens, the data load should abort before something bad happens. Luckily, ODI Load Plans have a very easy mechanism to handle timeout situations and most people are not aware of it. In every load plan step, we may add a timeout value which is the maximum time (in seconds) that this step takes before it is aborted by the Load Plan. When a timeout is reached, the step is marked in error and the Exception step (if defined) is executed.

It seems simple, but it can be very powerful, since this setting may be applied to any parent step (even the root step). In this case, we may have a safeguard to avoid a potential long running/overlapping situation for the entire load plan. As for example, if you want to be sure that the entire load finishes within 8 hours, just add a timeout value to the root step (28800 seconds) and it will stop in case it reaches this value. In daily execution load plans, you may set it to 86400 seconds (24 hours), so it does not overlap with the next daily execution. In the following screen, I set a 10 seconds timeout, and this is the error that is triggered when it reaches the timeout setting value.

That’s if folks, see ya!

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