Running Keygen for Partial Conversion Runs
Hint: Whilst the majority of the CC&B Conversion process can be run as a subset of steps dependent on the type of conversion run being executed (ie. Convert on Person will only require that the Validation and Production steps specific to the Person entity be executed) it is important to note that once a project moves onto a conversion run involving a more complete 'V' structure, that the need to run all KeyGen steps becomes mandatory.
KeyGen will attempt to allocate a new CC&B key value for each record on the associated parent table, but it also creates a single 'blank' key value which is used by all Production Insert steps to link to optional key values. A prime example of this is the CI_ACCT MAILING_PREM_ID, this field is an optional field on the CI_ACCT records, but unless the associated CI_PREM KeyGen has been executed to create a ' ' entry on the CK_PREM table, none of the CI_ACCT records will be transferred from Staging to Production.
As a result, I recommend that once a site reaches the point where they are considering moving data from Staging to Production, that they include the full suite of KeyGen steps in the Conversion run schedule (regardless of how many of the CC&B data structures they are converting over). Given that these runs are being executed against a set of empty source tables, it is not anticipated that the overall run times will be extended to an unmanagable level.
KeyGen will attempt to allocate a new CC&B key value for each record on the associated parent table, but it also creates a single 'blank' key value which is used by all Production Insert steps to link to optional key values. A prime example of this is the CI_ACCT MAILING_PREM_ID, this field is an optional field on the CI_ACCT records, but unless the associated CI_PREM KeyGen has been executed to create a ' ' entry on the CK_PREM table, none of the CI_ACCT records will be transferred from Staging to Production.
As a result, I recommend that once a site reaches the point where they are considering moving data from Staging to Production, that they include the full suite of KeyGen steps in the Conversion run schedule (regardless of how many of the CC&B data structures they are converting over). Given that these runs are being executed against a set of empty source tables, it is not anticipated that the overall run times will be extended to an unmanagable level.
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