Starting on PPM 15.2, the on-the-fly Rate Matrix setting is disabled by default. This means that any upgrade to either PPM 15.2 or later will disable this setting. This was done to help/prevent a defect that was reported on the PPM 15.1 release where this setting being enabled would cause performance with the Post Timesheet job, especially when processing a large number of timesheets (DE31729 : Post Timesheets slow due to on-the-fly.). Here are the 2 options that can be used to work around this change:
Option 1: Schedule the Rate Matrix Extraction job to run in incremental mode
It should be run prior to the Post Timesheets job and also run frequently throughout the day (recommended at least every hour if possible)
Option 2: Enable On-the-fly RateMatrix
IMPORTANT: Impact of enabling this setting:
This setting can made in PPM by using the below steps:
- Log in to PPM as an Administrator and Click on the Administration menu
- Under Security and Diagnostics click on the Health Report Link
- Go to the Application tab
- Under General->On-the-fly RateMatrix click on the 'Enable' link on the Status column (The value for the On-the-fly option should then switch immediately to Enabled)