Hi all,
we are running DS applications on the BI Platform 4.1 which is connected to a SAP BW system (7.31). The users access the reports from a SAP Portal by means of the special BO iViews which open OpenDocument-URLs.
We are wondering, how many users can concurrently execute reports and which parameters on the BI platform are relevant for that. We have observerd the session count metric in the APS. Once a user opens a report from the navigation menu in the SAP Portal, a new browser tab is opened. The same time, the session count metric is increased by 1. If the same user opens another report, which opens another browser tab, the session count metric is not increased. So I assume, there is one APS session per user - is that correct?
My next question is, for how long such a session remains "open"? From our observations, it seems, that the APS session remains "open" for the user as long as he sees the report and until some timeout (seems to be 20 minutes) is reached. We assume, that the APS session is "occupied" during that time - even if the user is not doing any navigation steps in the report (that is, he is just looking at it).
Let's assume, we have configured a maximum of 20 for the APS maximum session parameter and we have just one APS instance. What would happen, if 21 users all open just one report all at the same time? Would the 21st user be "blocked", if he tries to open a report and what would he see in the browser tab? We had situations, where some users complained about "white browser" windows when they tried to open a report.
Any support that sheds some light on this topic is highly appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Philipp Hinnah