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As we all know Interact is used for delivering optimal, personalized messages in real-time across marketing channels. Interact communicates with the customer-facing touch point using the runtime servers.​You can learn more about Interact architecture here.
​By default, the runtime environment writes contact and response history data from session data into staging tables. On a very active production system, however, the amount of memory required to cache all the data before runtime can write it to the staging tables may be prohibitive. You can configure runtime to use a database load utility to improve performance.When you enable a database load utility, instead of holding all contact and response history in memory before writing to the staging tables, runtime writes the data to a staging file.You define the location of the directory containing the staging files with the  externalLoaderStagingDirectory property.This directory contains several subdirectories. The first subdirectory is the runtime instance directory, which contains the contactHist and respHist directories.The contactHist and respHist directories contain uniquely named sub directories in the format of audienceLevelName.uniqueID.currentState, which contain the staging files.Here are the detailed steps for configuring Db loader with Oracle, Db2 and Sql Server.
Db Loader configuration for Oracle:
1.  Create a Data Source under asm_admin as “systemTablesDataSource”. Specify the login details of the Interact Runtime specified in the “InteractRTDS” JNDI2. Need to update below configuration
Update the parameters under –
"Affinium|Interact|general|systemTablesDataSource|loaderProperties" as follows:databaseName: ujanidatabaseName must be correctly specified as SID.loaderCommandForAppend: /data/unica/qa/interact/RG_ACI753_RT_8100/Affinium/Interact/loaderService/oraload.sh <CONTROLFILE> <TABLE> <USER> <PASSWORD> <DATABASE>oraload.sh is located under <Interact_Home>/ loaderService directory update above configuration with path to it along with the mentioned arguments.loaderControlFileTemplateForAppend: /data/unica/qa/interact/RG_ACI753_RT_8100/Affinium/Interact/loaderService/oraload_control_template.txtFor above configuration update path till Oracle Control template file located under  <Interact_Home>/ loaderService directory at your installation directory.loaderDelimiterForAppend: |loaderDelimiterAtEndForAppend: FalseloaderUserLocaleDP: False

 

3.   Update the parameters under “Affinium|Interact|services” as follows:

externalLoaderStagingDirectory: /data/unica/qa/interact/RG_ACI753_RT_8100/Affinium/Interact/loaderService/staging

Mention path till <Interact_Home>/loaderService/staging directory at your installation directory.

4.  Update the parameters under “Affinium|Interact|services|contactHist” as follows:
     cacheType: External Loader File

5.  Update the parameters under “Affinium|Interact|services|ResponseHist” as follows:
     cacheType: External Loader File

6. Update below fileCache configuration as per requirement, for detail check Interact Administration Guide.

Interact|services|contactHist|fileCache
Affinium|interact|services|responseHist|fileCache

7.  Update ORACLE_HOME variable in oraload.sh file located under installation directory at <Interact_Home>/loaderService

Db Loader configuration for Db2:
1.  Create a Data Source under asm_admin as “systemTablesDataSource”. Specify the login details of the Interact Runtime specified in the “InteractRTDS” JNDI2. Need to update below configuration
Update the parameters under
"Affinium|Interact|general|systemTablesDataSource|loaderProperties" as follows:databaseName: InteractdatabaseName must be correctly specified as SID.loaderCommandForAppend: /data/unica/qa/interact/RG_ACI753_RT_8100/Affinium/Interact/loaderService/db2load.sh <CONTROLFILE> <TABLE> <USER> <PASSWORD> <DATABASE>oraload.sh is located under <Interact_Home>/ loaderService directory update above configuration with path to it along with mentioned arguments.loaderControlFileTemplateForAppend: /data/unica/qa/interact/RG_ACI753_RT_8100/Affinium/Interact/loaderService/db2load_control_template.txtFor above configuration update path till Db2 Control template file located under-  <Interact_Home>/ loaderService directory at your installation directory.loaderDelimiterForAppend: |loaderDelimiterAtEndForAppend: FalseloaderUserLocaleDP: False

 

loader properties

3.    Update the parameters under “Affinium|Interact|services” as follows:
externalLoaderStagingDirectory:
/data/unica/qa/interact/RG_ACI753_RT_8100/Affinium/Interact/loaderService/staging

Mention path till <Interact_Home>/loaderService/staging directory at your installation directory.

4.   Update the parameters under “Affinium|Interact|services|contactHist” as follows:
cacheType: External Loader File

5.    Update the parameters under “Affinium|Interact|services|ResponseHist” as follows:
cacheType: External Loader File

6.   Update below fileCache configuration as per requirement, for detail check Interact Administration Guide.

Interact|services|contactHist|fileCache

Affinium|interact|services|responseHist|fileCache

7. Update DB2_HOME variable in db2load.sh file located under installation directory at  <Interact_Home>/loaderService

8.  Update DB2DIR variable with Db2 installation directory on same machine and db2profile file path location in setenv.sh located under <Campaign_Home>/bin

Db Loader configuration for Sql Server:

Pre-requisite:
Check %MSSQLDIR%\Binn has bcp.exe utility installed already. bcp.exe should be installed on the server where loader is to run.
Important: If bcp.exe is not present under folder %MSSQLDIR% Loader cannot be tested on that setup.

1.   Create a Data Source under asm_admin as “systemTablesDataSource”. Specify the login details of the Interact Runtime specified in the “InteractRTDS” JNDI e.g sa

2.    Need to update below configuration
Update the parameters under

"Affinium|Interact|general|systemTablesDataSource|loaderProperties" as follows:databaseName: e63rt11.dbofor SQL Server it should be database.dbo (e.g. atrt11.dbo)loaderCommandForAppend: C:\Installs\Interact11WLNew\Interact\loaderService\/bcpload.bat <DATABASE> <TABLE> <DATAFILE> <USER> <PASSWORD> <CONTROLFILE>bcpload.bat is located under <Interact_Home>/ loaderService directory, update above configuration with path to it along with mentioned arguments.loaderControlFileTemplateForAppend: C:\Installs\Interact11WLNew\Interact\loaderService\bcpload_control_template.txt                       For above configuration update path till Sql Svr Control template file located under  <Interact_Home>/ loaderService directory at your installation directory.loaderDelimiterForAppend: |loaderDelimiterAtEndForAppend: FalseloaderUserLocaleDP: False

 

3.   Update the parameters under “Affinium|Interact|services” as follows:

externalLoaderStagingDirectory:
C:\Installs\Interact11WLNew\Interact\loaderService\staging

Mention path till <Interact_Home>/loaderService/staging directory at your installation directory.

4.    Update the parameters under “Affinium|Interact|services|contactHist” as follows:
cacheType: External Loader File

5.    Update the parameters under “Affinium|Interact|services|ResponseHist” as follows:
cacheType: External Loader File

6.  Update below fileCache configuration as per requirement, for detail check Interact Administration Guide.
Interact|services|contactHist|fileCache

Affinium|interact|services|responseHist|fileCache7.  Update bcpload.bat file located under installation directory at
<Interact_Home>/loaderService with the below details:
a. Update MSSQLDIR variable with path till Tools directory under which we have Binn directory containing bcp application.Path format should be the short path as mention in the below sample file, for creating Short path check link https://manjusullad.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/how-can-i-find-create-short-path-for-windows-folders-directories/
b. Update DBHOSTNAME
c. Update path for LOGFILEDIRSample bcpload.bat
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Gurpreet Singh

   Gurpreet Singh
   Senior Test Engineer


Gurpreet Singh is working as Senior Test Engineer for HCL Marketing Suite​, he is having 13 years of extensive software experience on varied IBM products & technologies. From the last five years, he is working on Marketing Software (Unica) family products and he also worked on Watson Real-Time Personalization.
Marketing Platform, Campaign, Interact, Marketing Operations, Contact Optimization, and Opportunity Detect are trademarks of IBM Corporation, in at least one jurisdiction, and are used under license. 
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