Coordinator controls

The execution policies for the actions of a Coordinator job can be defined in the Coordinator application. There are different types of Coordinator controls, as shown in the following figure:

Coordinator controls

Here's a brief explanation of the Coordinator controls present in the preceding figure:

• timeout: The timeout control allows us to say how long the Coordinator action will be in the waiting or ready state before timing out on its execution, for example, five minutes.

• concurrency: Using this control, we can specify the concurrency for the Coordinator actions. It specifies how many Coordinator actions are allowed to run concurrently (the running status).

• execution: If there is a backlog of Coordinators, this control helps to decide which one should be executed. The different choices are oldest first (FIFO), newest first (LIFO), none (NONE), and last one only (LAST_ONLY).

• throttle: The throttle control specifies the maximum number of Coordinator actions that are allowed...