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Jenny Franklin posted 05/02/22 10:28 AM

Excellent question, @Robert Krauss!  I'm curious as well.  I haven't dabbled too much with the new Datalink, but wondering if there's a way to do that there.  Just adding to your question. ;)  Hopefully someone can hop on an enlighten us! 😊​

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Apptio Community Member posted 05/02/22 11:02 AM

Hi Robert, do you have these connectors running in groups or are they running individually? I have 11 connectors that run in a group and I believe they all check in at once.
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Apptio Community Member posted 05/02/22 11:14 AM

Hi @Jessica Matos - they are in connectors but since some are under the default agent and some are under the on-premise agent, the best I can get to is two connector groups.​
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Apptio Community Member posted 05/03/22 01:27 AM

Hi Robert,
not certain if this will work but have you tried enabling check in on just the last connector that fires? I can't be certain if that checks in just the respective table or the entire dev space that gets created by the DL jobs.
Worth a try?
Regards Mark
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Apptio Community Member posted 05/04/22 12:26 AM

@Jenny Franklin - in regards to the new Datalink, I can confirm that enabling check in for a connector only works on the table that is the target.

Example scenario:
Connector 1 -> Table A (check in disabled)
Connector 2 -> Table B (check in enabled)

Only Table B gets checked in, regardless of the ordering of the connector jobs. It's a tad annoying as we have multiple connectors running daily so a multitude of check ins occur overnight. They are all "daisy-chained" (great functionality), so one job completes before the next commences. Thankfully our stage calc times are under 3 hours so I typically find when I start the day the last build is pretty much winding up.​

Not sure on groups here - I was not able to use this functionality due to limitations with other aspects of the new Datalink and workarounds I had to come up with to manage these.
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James Funk posted 05/04/22 02:42 PM

You could just disable Staging on Friday evening before you log off, then turn it back on on Monday morning.

Admittedly, this "solution" has some drawbacks (it's not automated since you have to manually turn it off and on again, it means that Staging would need to start calculating when you turn it back on on Monday morning rather than on Sunday so that the data is ready to go on Monday morning, etc.), but if your goal is simply to reduce the number of Staging calcs that your environment has to perform, then I think this would help.
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Apptio Community Member posted 05/10/22 10:43 AM

@Rene Norskov - that's an interesting idea. I'll have to play around with the concept but it sounds like what I want to do.​
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