well, I think that the most important (and hard to solve) issue here is related to the reason why your agents take that long and even harder, how can you re-think your agent execution.
In the case of letting Domino behave as a relational database (i.e. some complex queries in a large database), one of t he best solutions is passing the data to an external relational database, for example, i've used mySQL.
Ok, you can reduce the agent execution time . But, you can face some other annoying problems if something fail. let's say that the agent fail. Normally even taking care of everytihing in the programming side, the agent "hangs" the HTTP threads, and it will be a pain trying to reboot the task again.
What I do to solve this additional issue is to implement Apache+mySQL+PHP. Since normally all that problems are related to mining Domino to extract information for Reports of complex relations that you can't do in a Domino view, what I do is using the included DECS task, in sync with my application, I pass all the logic to php and I can have the problem solved, so my agents just do simple stuff like wf routing, doc processing, etc.
It was too long for just a comment, Jake, but it is my approach to solve problems like described by you.
Hi Jake,
well, I think that the most important (and hard to solve) issue here is related to the reason why your agents take that long and even harder, how can you re-think your agent execution.
In the case of letting Domino behave as a relational database (i.e. some complex queries in a large database), one of t he best solutions is passing the data to an external relational database, for example, i've used mySQL.
Ok, you can reduce the agent execution time . But, you can face some other annoying problems if something fail. let's say that the agent fail. Normally even taking care of everytihing in the programming side, the agent "hangs" the HTTP threads, and it will be a pain trying to reboot the task again.
What I do to solve this additional issue is to implement Apache+mySQL+PHP. Since normally all that problems are related to mining Domino to extract information for Reports of complex relations that you can't do in a Domino view, what I do is using the included DECS task, in sync with my application, I pass all the logic to php and I can have the problem solved, so my agents just do simple stuff like wf routing, doc processing, etc.
It was too long for just a comment, Jake, but it is my approach to solve problems like described by you.
Just the usual pennies
.::Alex::.