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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Sterling B2B Integrator
Categories Other
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 13, 2024

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Code List Metrics - How often used, and when last used

We currently use multiple code lists in our environment. Over the years, these code lists have grown exponentially. Unfortunately, we have no way of easily knowing how often a row within a code list is used, or when the last time that row was used. This would be good information to have so we can identify our heavy hitters, and also determine if a row is no longer needed and can be removed from the code list. This may cause some additional overhead, but I think this would prove valuable in understanding and maintaining the code list.

What is your industry? Financial Markets
How will this idea be used?

This could be used to monitor code list row usage, recognize overlap, and help determine if a row is no longer in use and can be removed from the code list.
  • Admin
    Mark Allen
    Reply
    |     Sep 18, 2024

    Thank you for taking the time to provide your ideas to IBM. We truly value our relationship with you and appreciate your willingness to share details about your experience, your recommendations, and ideas.

    IBM has evaluated the request and has determined that it cannot be implemented at this time or does not align with our current strategy or roadmap.

    Code lists are like a database record where they could scale to 1000s of rows. Since B2Bi is already a DB transaction-heavy application, engineering is concerned that capturing additional details on usage would seriously impact application performance. We have seen cases in the field where customers are invoking code lists up to 4 million times per minute in high-performance EDI scenarios.


    Other customers use code lists to build custom UIs and other use cases; it's usage is vast and any changes would have a large impact to existing custom customer scenarios.


    We discussed the possibility of putting events on a Kafka queue related to code list row usage or a counter, controlled by a flag. However a translator would need to pull from Kafka at a high volume that may not be feasible for high transaction customers.

    Thank you for bringing your ideas to us. If you have any additional feedback, thoughts or ideas, or if there is anything else I can do, please do not hesitate to reply to this message to continue the conversation.

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