Running DW jobs more than once a day

Hi,

we have a need to run DW ETL jobs for our CCM servers more frequently than once a day. Currently the jobs not including the STAR, take about 5 hours to run. Occasionally a user or two will complain about the charts/reports not be in sync with the recent srum changes and/or what Eclipse may show.

In many cases it happens when the project is new and they want to run a report after they have entered all their data and/or had a large migration/import from another tool.

I'm aware that we can run the ETL jobs manually and it would refresh the data. But with the many projects having resources spread across the world, as one team makes all their updates, the next shift may not see the results until the jobs execute.

From the configurations I see two settings: Snapshot Time (1-24) and Task Delay under "Remote Data Collection Job Manager Task" and it is set to 86400 sec but the tooltip note is asking to Not change this.

If we don't overlap the jobs, would it be OK to change the task Delay to 8hours so that we have three full runs a day? is there another way to accomplish the same?

Thank you

Anatole