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Troubleshooting batch jobs in AX

If your batch jobs are seemingly not executing in Microsoft Dynamics AX, there could be a multitude of reasons. This guide will help with troubleshooting batch jobs in AX by listing the possible causes and providing solutions for each points.

Initial setup

It is important to define what is a batch job first:

A batch job is a process which will carry out specific tasks at a certain date and time running as a background process within the AX Application Object Server service.

We need to tell the system what is the process that we want execute, which consists of a Batch job as a header, and at least one Batch task which is the actual processes running. The batch jobs can be grouped together by their roles with the help of a Batch group. If none is provided, it would still classify as one called the “Empty batch group”.

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By |2017-09-25T19:51:42+02:00July 2nd, 2017|Categories: AX 2012|Tags: , , , , , |1 Comment

Working with Entity Store and DIXF in AX

There is an excellent tool available for advanced reporting and BI capabilities that partners and customers should start exploring. In this post I would like to show how to work with Entity Store and DIXF in AX, which has been published shortly after the Technical Conference held in Seattle last year: https://www.daxrunbase.com/2016/02/24/technical-conference-day-1/

Working with the Entity Store and DIXF in AX takes some time to set up, but once it is running, it is acting as an up-to-date Data Warehouse for you, where you could utilize advanced features such as Clustered Columnstore Indexes, and make truly amazing visualizations which will please the eyes of your managers whom loves KPIs, and will make your teams more productive by knowing what to look for.

You can find the Public PowerBI built for the stock and items at JJ Food Service as an example of what could be achieved for visualizations built on data that is coming out of your AX environment:

PowerBI

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By |2017-06-07T11:36:34+02:00June 7th, 2017|Categories: AX 2012|Tags: , , , , , , , , |4 Comments

AX 2012 R3 Cumulative Update 12 is available

Microsoft has announced availability for AX 2012 R3 Cumulative Update 12 recently, and just became available for download today. You may find the announcement with the What’s new links here:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dynamicsaxse/2016/11/21/announcing-cumulative-update-12-for-microsoft-dynamics-ax-2012-r3/

According the the Build numbers website the kernel has version 6.3.5000.138, however a newer build is already available:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/axsupport/2012/03/29/overview-of-microsoft-dynamics-ax-build-numbers/

 

 

By |2017-09-12T08:02:19+02:00November 22nd, 2016|Categories: AX 2012|Tags: , , |1 Comment
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