Hi,
At my current client we are having some issues with the 0HR_PT3 standard extractor.
In ECC we've defined a date range for the current fiscal year. In BW we've run the delta initialisation job using the same data range, which means that the delta job also runs using this range.
Our issue is when we need to change the date range, we also have to create a new delta init. This init runs for almost 30 hours and is causing big headaches since the extract locks employee records and HR can't update these records and we cannot load any time sheet data during this time.
So we got 2 issues:
1. Why does the standard extractor lock employee records when loading data to BW?
2. Is it normal that we need to rerun the init when we change the date range?
On the second point, I would have thought that we didn't have to specify a date range in BW since we set it in ECC and when we change the ECC date range the delta would automatically adjust to this new date range without having to rerun the init.
Anyone with experience in this?
Cheers,
Josh