Dependency Manager Deferred Processing

The previous section (Dependency Manager Functions) described how the Dependency Manager supports the capturing of precedent change items in a system-wide batch precedent change set, and how the Dependency Manager contains deferred processing to identify potentially affected dependents and recalculate them.

This section provides more details on the Dependency Manager's deferred processing.

The deferred processing will initially pre-calculate the total amount of potentially affected dependents there are, and hence how many recalculations it must perform and make one of two decisions:

• If this calculation is below the system limit, then the precedent change set recalculations will be performed by the deferred process there and then; or
• If this calculation exceeds a system limit, then the precedent change set calculations will be moved to the Dependency Manager's batch processing (Dependency Manager Batch Processing). At this point the precedent change set will be marked with a status of 'Deferred To Batch'.