Business processes, such as payment run or dunning run, in which large volumes of data are processed, are realized in FI-CA by using mass activities. Mass activities automatically split the dataset (such as a number of business partners or contract accounts) into multiple technical jobs and process them in parallel, at the same time.
When processing data, the system automatically splits the dataset into multiple parallel jobs. The specifications for distributing the key for the parallel objects are saved in variants, which you must update periodically. For example, you can create a variant for business partners that splits the business partner set to be processed into ten equal intervals.
During parallel processing, the system makes sure that the processes do not block each other due to changing accesses to the same database resources.
