Async Auto Scheduler task

Asynchronous processing tasks facilitate the communication between the WFM application and the FICO XPress optimization servers. To use Auto-Assignment, an Asynchronous Processing Task must be scheduled in the job scheduler. The job type parameter for this task must be configured depending on the module being used with Auto-Assignment. Select the ASYNC AUTO SCHEDULER LFSO TASK for LFSO, or the ASYNC AUTO SCHEDULER MVS TASK for MVS.

See the "Job Scheduler" chapter in the Infor Workforce Management Time and Attendance Implementation and Administration Guide for details on setting up job scheduler tasks.

Note: The Auto-Assignment features in MVS and LFSO, which depend on the FICO Xpress optimization engine, are disabled in IGS.

When a user creates a schedule in the relevant module, an Auto-Assignment process is added to the Auto-Assignment queue. If there are processes in the queue, when the Auto-Assignment task runs, it selects the process at the top of queue and sends it to one of the optimization servers. After the optimization server completes the optimization of the schedule and receives a result, the result is returned to the Auto-Assignment task which finishes by applying the schedule results to the WFM application server.

Each execution of an Auto-Assignment task completes the schedule creation process for one Auto-Assignment process. The next time the Auto-Assignment task runs, it selects the next Auto-Assignment process in the queue. The queue is managed on a first-in first-out order. Multiple tasks can be created to facilitate the generation of multiple schedules simultaneously, assuming there are sufficient optimization server licenses available to create the schedules.

Schedule generation notifications

The Auto-Assignment task sends a Workmail notification when schedule generation is completed to the user that created the schedule. The message indicates the status of the schedule generation or any errors encountered.

For the ASYNC AUTO SCHEDULER LFSO TASK, the message also includes the store locations that were included in the Auto-Assignment process and a link to open the schedule in the LFSO Schedule screen. The message also includes the time that the system spent to complete each step in the process.