Alternative to process flow

Hi!
I have a scenario which looks like it should be implemented with a process flow, but it requires a workflow server and I don`t want to go that way for the moment.
I want to call a stored procedure in the source schema, which populates a temporary table in the source schema. Then I just want to map this temporary table to a cube in the target schema.
This can`t work with a pre-mapping processor because the procedure doesn`t have any input or output parameters. It just reads some data from a table, does some processing and then populates the temporary table with the result.
The (temporary) table is necessary because the generated data are huge (about 2.500.000 rows).
Do I have any other options to execute this mapping, except for the process flow?
Thank you,
Yorgos

Yorgos,
Any mapping can be invoked through PLSQL. You can do it as described in http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/warehouse/sdk/web_services/ws_single_record.html
So, instead of process flow you will have PLSQL wrapper that calls other stored procedures with your logic.
The pseudo code for the wrapper may look like the one below:
begin
Populate temp table
Call OWB mapping that populates cube.
Other stuff (clean up)
End
In the earlier thread we were discussing how to pack multiple workflows together
Calling Process Flows from other projects
You can use the same scenario but think mapping when we say workflow.
Vladimir

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Data Type for Process Flow... PB with Date?

I've got a problem by passing parameters in process flow.
I have a mapping with a parameter DATE_EXEC (data type : DATE) and a default value that is TO_DATE('20/01/2007' , 'dd/mm/yyyy') . My mapping is working good when i launch it.
I have a process flow which contains the mapping. This process has a parameter DATE_EXEC (data type : DATE). I bind the 2 DATE_EXEC. But when i launch my mapping the value is not recognized, I try with :
- TO_DATE('20/01/2007' , 'dd/mm/yyyy')
- 20/01/2007
- 2007.01.20
- 2007-01-20
My question is what are the data type in process flow? They are not ORACLE TYPE.
For example , a parameter in a mapping which is a VARCHAR2 must be input between quotes but if you bind it to a parameter of a process flow which is a STRING (not ORACLE Data type) , you must input it without quotes?
Anybody has some rules about that?
I apologize for my english, i'm a french people.

Here is some information on the literal quote or not quote query and what I think you need to do at the end, hope it helps. Not exactly intuitive...since the flow designer (you) have to know what is a PLSQL object and what is not.
1. Literal = FALSE
When Literal = FALSE is set then the value entered must be a valid PL/SQL expression which is evaluated at the Control Center e.g.
'Hello World!'
22 / 7
2. Literal = TRUE
When Literal = TRUE then the value is dependent on the the type of Activity. If the activity is a PL/SQL object i.e. Mapping or Transformation, then the value is PL/SQL snippet. The critical difference here is that the value is macro substituted into the call for the object. The format of the value is identical to that entered as default value in the Mapping editor. e.g.
'Hello World!'
sysdate()
If the activity type is not a PL/SQL object then the value is language independent. e.g.
Hello World
3.1427571
What you should try......
Check the map activity parameter in your process flow to see if literal is false (an expression), set it to false and then try using your TO_DATE('20/01/2007' , 'dd/mm/yyyy') expression, deploy your flow and execute. Alternatively the user guide defines the DATE type for flow with the format YYYY-MM-DD so you can have the parameter value as '2007-01-20' use literal equal to true and remember and quote your value.
Cheers
David

Process Flow and Workflow

Hi experts, does a process flow cannot be used if we dont have oracle workflow?
If yes, any of you know the alternative ways to run a schedule mapping sequentially?
Currently i am running schedule from OWB (Control center manager). And i am not satisfied because the lack of Log / information regarding the job execution. Is there a way to get more detail schedule job logs???
Thank you in advance guys...

Oracle is pretty smart when it comes to those things, Im sure the table is not lock because one session is DML:ing it and one is querying it. You can get a deadlock when the sessions are trying to DML for the same row, because update/insert/delete is based on row lock, not table lock.
What you can do to test these kinds of long operation mappings is to generete the intermediate code from the map - open the map editor and click on genereate - choose intermediate from the dropdown list and click on your target table. Copy that code and run it from i.e toad, do the same thing instantly for the other map and you will found out if your sessions are locking each other.
Because the owb map is bascly configured in a way that it most of it is unnecessery when your are not running it thrue the repository, like I said. Try to run it they way it is - else create a new one by the code generated in the intermediate mapping.
Cheers

URGENT: Oracle Workflow Error: API-10020 on Creation of OWB Process Flows

I am trying to use Oracle Workflow to create Process Flows, in order to link together various mappings and components in Oracle Warehouse Builder. However, in the process flow editor window when I attempt to drag an object such as a mapping onto the editor panel, I get an error message stating the below:
API-10020: Unable to determine if the map is a PLSQL or SQLLDR map, please correct the map or choose another map.
All my maps are in PLSQL, and the language setting is set to this. I have tried modifying the langauge settings to see if it makes a difference but with no luck. My colleague believes this is a known bug in Oracle Workflow and there is a patch available to correct it.
Can anyone help with this query please? Thank you for your time.

In some versions of OWB (10.1, 10.2) The mapping property will display PL/SQL, but will actually be set to NULL in the repository (which will cause PL/SQL to be displayed as default).
The fix is easy enough: in the developer navigator, right-click on the mapping and go to configure and set the generation language first to something other then PL/SQL (you should get an error) and then place it back to PL/SQL. This should force the GUI to reset the parameter.
Alternatively, use OMB*Plus:
OMBALTER MAPPING 'MAPPINGNAME' SET PROPERTIES \
(GENERATION_LANGUAGE) VALUES ('PLSQL');
Good Luck,
Robbert

OWB Process Flow - How is the best version control tool ??

HI all,
I just start work with OWB and I have a question to know how is the best way to do something.
Imagine the scenario below:
If I have 2 or more requests for example:
Request 1: Create a Dimension City.
Request 2: Create a Dimension Products.
I Have ONE process flow and i need put my changes inside. This is my problem.
In my scenario I don't know what Request goes to Prod First.
If I put the Request 1 and Request 2 in my PROCESS FLOW, maybe I need change is someone decide change MY REQUEST PRIORITY.
There is something in OWB to "control the version or changes" ?? For a mapping I export the MDL and commit on SVN, but I dont know haw can i do with the process flow.
Something to agree multiples peoples work in different mappings and a SAME PROCESS FLOW ??
What is best way to work with process flow and version control.
What are the best practices when it comes to version control?
Thanks.

Amit,
Are you really doing this in 10.1.3.x and not 11g?
At any rate, I don't see how #2 and #3 relate whatsoever to your choice of a version control system. OK, maybe in #2 if there is some "maintenance" activity to be done against the version control server. Subversion is the open source alternative that you listed there and is pretty commonly used. If your company is already using one of the mentioned tools, why change? About the only thing I'd mention is to advise you NOT to use CVS for well documented reasons (JDev does support it) - if you would have picked CVS otherwise, choose Subversion. As far as question #1 - I've only used Subversion (well, I did use CVS for a while) with JDeveloper, so I can say it was "effective enough for me." In 10.1.3.x, I also used the external svn tools for doing lots of things like merging and so forth; in 11g, the support is much much better.
Best,
John

Calling pl/sql package on different database in process flow

Hi there
Have a process flow which calls procedure on different database. This procedure truncates a table on the remote database.
Please could somebody confirm we would need to set up dblinks from the owf_mgr schema to the remote database.
New to wokflow - am i Correct in assuming the process flows run on the owf_mgr
rather than the control center owbrt.
Many Thanks

Hi there,
Thanks for the reply.
If my understanding is correct I could have a procedure as follows.
hkeeping.trunc_table@dblinkname('TABLE_NAME');
Is this the case?
Another alternative was to call directly the transformation in the process flow
e.g. we have pl/sql package on remote database whioch truncates the remote table.
When we try this with same procedure on same databas as owb user exists on then works fine.
However on remote database get message below. Does this mean anything to you? How could we sort this?
RPE-01003: An infrastructure condition prevented the request from completing.
  TEMP_PLOW:TRUNC_TABLE
Error
RPE-01038: Failed to evaluate expression null. Please modify the expression, redeploy and retry again.
   TEMP_PLOW:TRUNC_TABLE
Error
RPE-01003: An infrastructure condition prevented the request from completing.
   TEMP_PLOW:TRUNC_TABLE
Error
RPE-02226: Cannot test Control Center user REMOTEUSERNAME. This user must match the login credentials of the deployment location.
   TEMP_PLOW:TRUNC_TABLE
Error
ORA-01937: missing or invalid role name
Many Thanks

PPT on SD process flow

Hi guys am in need of help from u
am not so clear about the SD process flow
can anyone pls send me a PPT on SD process flow
to my email id:- (<REMOVED BY MODERATOR>).
thanking u in advance..
Regards
Jino.

Sales Organization   :
Responsible for:
     Distribution of goods and services
     Negotiating Sales Conditions
     Product Liability and rights of recourse
     A sales organization is uniquely assigned to a company code
     Master datas are separately maintained for a sales organization
     All items in the Sales and Distribution document belong to a sales organization
Distribution Channel:
Means through which products and services reach the customer
A distribution channel:
     Defines responsibilities
     Helps in achieve flexible pricing
     Differentiate Sales statistics
Division:
     A division is used to group products and services.
     A division represents a product line.
Sales Area:
A Sales area is a combination of
     Sales organization
     Distribution Channel
     Division
Each Sales and distribution document is assigned exactly to one sales area.
A sales area can belong to only one company code.
     Sales Organization
     Distribution Channel
     Division
                 Sales Area
Plant and Storage Location:
     A Plant is a location where stock is maintained
     Plant and storage location are used by all logistic area of R/3 System
     A Plant is uniquely assigned to a company code
Shipping point:
     Shipping point is the highest level of organizational unit in shipping
     Each outbound delivery is processed by one shipping point
     Shipping points are assigned to a plant
     More than one shipping point can be assigned to a plant
Sales and Distribution is SAP begins with establishing customer relationship and ends with invoicing for the delivery of goods or service provided to the customer .
A Standard sales transaction has the following flow:
Inquiry
Quotation
Order
Delivery
Billing
The customer order management cycle begins with pre-sales activities.
A standard order in SAP contains:
     Customer and material info
     Pricing conditions
     Delivery dates and quantities
     Shipping info
     Billing Info
Inventory sourcing in SAP is taken care by
     Availability check
Shipping in SAP supports
     Outbound delivery creation
     Picking
     Packing
     Post Goods Issue
Billing in SAP supports
     Creating invoices for products and services
     Creating credit and debit memo
     Cancel previously posted billing documents
     Automatically transferring billing documents to accounting
When a billing document is created for a sales order we
     Credit the sales revenue account
     Debit the customer receivables account
Sales Document
A sales document is grouped into three structures
     Header
     Item
     Schedule Line
Outbound delivery
A delivery document is grouped into two structures
     Header
     Item
Several orders can be grouped into same outbound delivery if they have same
     Shipping point
     Delivery date
     Ship-to- address
Picking
     A transfer order is created for an outbound delivery
     A transfer order is created for a warehouse number
Post Goods Issue
When PGI is done the system
     Updates the quantity in inventory management and delivery requirements in materials planning
     Generates additional documents for accounting
     Adds the delivery to the billing due list
     Updates status in sales documents
Billing
We can group deliveries into single billing document if the deliveries have same
     Billing date
     Payer
     Destination Country
The effects of billing are
     Debit on the customer receivables account and credit on sales revenue account is created
     Sales information system
     Sales statistics is updated
Master data in SAP
SAP SD has got the following main masters:
     Customer master
     Material master
     Condition master
     Output master
     Customer material information master
Customer master
General Data                                         Sales Area Data          Company Code data
Tab pages                                              Tab pages                                      Tab pages
Address     Order             Accounting
Control data                                              Shipping               Payment
Payment terms                                          Billing               Correspondence
Marketing                                                   Partner functions                Insurance
Unloading points
Export data
Contact persons
The chart above shows detail on three main areas of customer master and the tab pages found under each area.
Material Master is maintained in different views and important views of sales and distribution are
     Basic data 1
     Sales Org 1
     Sales Org 2
     Sales : Gen/Plant
     Foreign Trade
     Sales text
Sales document in Sales and distribution mainly controls:
     Number range
     Item No increment
     Reference mandatory
     Item division
     Read info record
     Document pricing procedure
     Incomplete messages
     Alternative sales documents
     Delivery block
     Billing block
     Immediate delivery
     Delivery type
     Billing type
     Proposed delivery date
     Lead time for delivery
     Proposed pricing date
Plant determination in Sales and distribution:
To determine the plant in an order the system checks the master in the following order:
a)     Customer material info. record of the sold-to party
b)     Customer master record of the ship-to-party
c)     Material master record of the material
Shipping point determination
The following rule is used in determining shipping point in a sales order   :
Plant + Shipping condition (Sold-to-Party) + Loading group                  Shipping point
                                                      Maintained in Material master Gen: Plant data
Route determination
Route determined using the following rule in Sales and Distribution (SAP)
Departure Zone of Shipping Point
+
Shipping condition (Sold-to-Party)
+
Transportation Group (Material master)
+
Transportation Zone (Ship-to-Party)
Route
Delivery scheduling:
As name denotes delivery scheduling is scheduling delivery for an order and it carries the following important dates:
     Material availability date
     Transportation planning date
     Loading date
     Goods Issue date
     Delivery date
Availability Check in SAP:
     Availability check is carried out at item level for a plant
     Availability check is done on the material availability date
     If material availability date is in the past the forward scheduling is done, if not backward scheduling is done.
Item category determination in the order:
Item category denotes the category to which the item belongs and the following rule is used for determination of item category. Item category controls the way in which item behaves in a sales document.
Sales document type
+
Item category group (Material master)
+
Item usage
+
Item category of higher level item
Item category of the item
Item category in a sales document mainly controls the following
     Relevance for billing of an item
     Billing block
     Pricing relevance
     Business data relevance item
     Schedule line allowed
     Item relevant for delivery
     Returns
     Determine cost
     Credit active
     Incompletion procedure
     Partner determination procedure
     Structure scope (relevant for bill of material explosion)
     Value contract material
     Contract release control
Schedule line category:
Every item which has a delivery will have a schedule line and the schedule line category is determined with the following rule:
Item category + MRP type(Material Master)         Schedule line category
Schedule line category mainly controls:
     Delivery Block
     Movement type
     Item relevant for delivery
     Req/Assembly
     Availability
     Product Allocation
Copy Control:
Copy control is normally set for
     Header
     Item
     Schedule line levels
To control copying procedure we have
     Data transfer routines
     Copying requirements
     Switches
Pricing Procedure determination:
Pricing is an important component in SAP-SD. Once an order is entered taking into consideration some major factors, the pricing procedure for the particular order is determined.
The major factors taken into consideration for pricing procedure determination is:
Sales area
+
Customer Pricing procedure(Customer Master Sales area data)
+
Document Pricing Procedure(Sales Document Type)
Pricing Procedure
What are the components of pricing procedure?
How is that a person should work on Pricing Procedure?
To start with first
Define a Condition table:
What is a condition table?
A table where the key fields are data combinations for which messages are triggered (and offered for processing).
For each data combination, there is a condition record in the table. The data part contains the actual message.
As mentioned above a condition table is a table which carries key fields for picking up the prices.
Define Access Sequences
The access sequence is a search strategy which the SAP System uses to search for condition records valid for a condition type.
For example, you can define for a price that the SAP System first searches for a customer-specific price and then for a price list price.
Recommendation
     If you define your own access sequences, the key should start with the letter Z since SAP reserves this letter for the standard system.
     Do not change access sequences contained in the standard SAP R/3 System.
Actions
1. Check to what extent you can use the access sequences contained in the standard SAP R/3 System.
2. Create new access sequences by copying a similar access sequence and changing it according to your needs. Specify an alphanumeric key which may have up to 4 digits and a textual description.
3. Maintain the accesses for the access sequence by specifying the condition tables in the desired sequence. With the sequence, you define the priority of the accesses. You can display combinations of key fields using possible entries.
4. Generating the accesses is no longer necessary as of 3.0, as this is carried out automatically. You can generate the accesses manually, if required, by choosing "Utilities".
Example
In pricing, you use a customer-material discount. The condition records you create are based on customer data from the document header and material data from each document item. The discount is only valid for 2% of your customers, however. Normally, this would mean that the system would needlessly search through every available item for 98% of your customers. In this case, pre step would improve system performance.
Define Condition Type
A characteristic of a condition. For example, in pricing, different condition types are used to distinguish between a discount that refers to a net price and a discount that refers to a gross price.
Price elements are represented in the SAP system by condition types. Price elements can be, for example, prices, surcharges, discounts, taxes or, freight, and are stored in the system in condition records.
You can, for example, define whether a discount is calculated as a percentage or a fixed amount using the condition type.
You specify an access sequence in every condition type. Thus, you define which fields the SAP system checks when searching for a valid condition record.
Note
     The pricing procedure groups all condition types together which the SAP system is to automatically take into account during pricing for a business transaction (see the section "Define and assign pricing procedures").
Remember that you can only specify manually in a document those condition types which are contained in the pricing procedure.
     You can change the outcome of pricing in the sales document manually. You can limit options for changing a condition type in this IMG step.
Recommendation
     If you define your own condition types, the key should start with the letter Z since SAP reserves these letters for that purpose in the standard system.
     Do not change the condition types which are contained in the standard SAP R/3 System.
Actions
1. Check to what extent you can use the condition types contained in the standard SAP R/3 System.
2. Create new condition types by copying a similar conditions type and changing it according to your requirements. One reason for creating a new condition type is you may require a calculation rule for a discount which is not available in the standard system.
Specify an alphanumeric key which can have up to 4 digits, and a textual description.
Specify an access sequence for the condition types. You do not need to specify an access sequence for header conditions.
3. Maintain the detail screen of the condition type.
You can also assign a reference condition type if the condition types you are working with are similar. Then you will only have to maintain condition records for the reference condition type.
In addition, you can define the upper and lower limits for the value of a condition at condition type level. This way, you limit the amounts or the scale values in the corresponding condition records.
Define Pricing Procedures
The pricing procedure defines the conditions permitted for a document and the sequence in which the system takes these conditions into account during pricing.
A standard pricing procedure is defined in the standard SAP system. It contains conditions most commonly used. These include material prices, discounts, and surcharges, such as freight, or tax.
SAP Recommendation
     Define your own pricing procedures which contain only those condition types which you use. Otherwise, the system makes un neccessary accesses to conditions.
     Do not change the pricing procedures contained in the standard SAP R/3 System.
Actions
1. Create new pricing procedures by copying a similar pricing procedure.
o     Specify a key with up to 6 characters and a description.
o     For a procedure, specify the condition types in the sequence of their usage.
Maintain the lines of the pricing procedure
2. Afterwards define the customer determination procedures for determining the procedure.
3. Define the document pricing procedures for determining the procedure.
4. Assign the procedure to the sales document types and billing types.
5. To determine the procedure, define the allowed combinations of:
o     Sales area
o     Customer pricing procedure
o     Document pricing procedure
o     Pricing procedure
Shipping:
The basis for shipping is delivery.
Delivery document controls the following in deliveries
     Number range
     Item no increment
     Storage location rule
     Route determination
     Text determination
     Delivery split
     Gen. packing material / item
     Order required
Delivery item category controls:
     Check min delivery
     Availability check
     Relevant for picking
     Storage location required
     Determine storage location
     Automatic batch determination
     Text determination procedure
Billing:
Billing is the last phase in the SD process .Billing is the phase where the major integration of SD and FI Module happens.
Billing document has got the following structure:
     Header
     Item
Billing documents mainly control:
     No. range
     Posting block (Controls posting to accounting)
     Relevant for rebate
     Account determination procedure
     Account determination recon account
     Account determination pay.cards
     Output determination procedure
Account Determination in SAP
Account determination in SAP-SD happens with the following rule
Sales Organization
Chart of Accounts
Account assignment group Customer
Account assignment group-Material
Account Key
G/L account on which the postings has to happen.
CHeers!!!

Customer consignment materials - process flow

Hi PP Guru's,
pls explain customer consignment materials - process flow ?
how to recd parts and transaction for consignment parts.
customer ordered FG, but some of the components (items) customer consignment parts, other parts buying from other vendor.
Regards,
Sankaran

One alternative would be:
- Customer material (CM) are non valuated ones.
- BoM contains both CM and normal raw materials (CS01)
- Routing ot Recipes is the base for manufacturing costing (CA01 or C201).
- Create a process order for the product (COR1)
- Do the whole processing of the order (release, GI, GR, Confirmation, Settlement).
-.Delivery the product to the customer (and eventually the remaining CM )
The process is just like the normal, only there are some differences in costing, and the stock of CM has no value.

Use of Business Process Flow in BPC

Hello Everybody,
I am new to SAP BPC. I am able to create a New Business Process Flow in BPC.
But Can any one tell me what are the actual Uses of Business Process Flow in BPC.
Thanks a lot in Advance!
Regards,
Satish.

Hi,
BPF can be compared a little bit with 'guided procedures' in BI: you define a pre-defined process consisting of multiple steps which have to be executed by the user to come to the end result. You can choose to oblige the user to first finish step X before starting step Y. A step can be lots of things like input data, set a certain status, ... BPF are executed in BPC web. Disadvantage is that once you finished a step in a BPF, you cannot set it back (unless everything is initialized ...)
Alternative could be a custom menu, in which you also make a list of activities, but the user is free to execute any step in any sequence
regards
Dries

How to stop OWB Process Flow job

I have a problem.
For scheduling OWB Process Flows I use EM (create Job - SQL Script) in which I schedule jobs with script @/home/oracle/scripts/oem_exec_template.sql.
Sometimes it happens, that the job doesn't finish and I also can't expedite it through Workflow manager because it is not listed there. So next executions for this job doesn't fire, because it is still active (it is shown in EM as Running …..and also I can't stop it there).
I also can't find the session for this job and also in dictionary I can't find the job, I went through these views, but nowhere I can't find any of my scheduled jobs, and of course also not the ones that are still running.
DBA_SCHEDULER_JOBS
DBA_SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS
DBA_SCHEDULER_JOB_RUN_DETAILS
Where in dictionary can I find my jobs?
How can I kill my running jobs?
OS: Red Hat Linux 3
DB: 10.1.0.3.0
OWB: 10.1.0.2.0
I'm quite desperate about this isue,
Thank you,
Gorazd

Gorazd,
the best way to identify problem with processflow execution - using OWB Runtime Audit Browser.
Other variant - using public OWB runtime view, for example for reporting executions of you process run this select under OWB repository owner or any OWB user:
select created_on,elapse_time,return_result from all_rt_audit_executions
where object_name='<your processflow name in uppercase>' order by created_on;
RETURN_RESULT must be equal 'OK' and ELAPSE_TIME (in seconds) greater then 0.
If this query returns rows with null RETURN_RESULT or RETURN_RESULT<>'OK' or with zero elapse_time and this cases match (by date) with EM problems then you need analyze process executions in more detail with Runtime Audit Browser.
Alternatively use select from view ALL_RT_AUDIT_EXEC_MESSAGES / ALL_RT_AUDIT_MAP_RUN_ERRORS / ALL_RT_AUDIT_PROC_RUN_ERRORS.
Oleg

Is It Possible To Start a Process Flow on Receipt of an Email?

Hi
Does anyone know if you can trigger the start of a process flow once an email has been received?
thanks ...

alternatively what you can done is:
If you are using unix/linux OS then:
create an SMTP service on unix/linux
have the email coming into unix/linux
write a unix shell scrpt to read he mails on a regular basis
if the email is existing create a "touch file" referred as flag file
use the OWB to check if the flat file exists on unix as owb can communicate with unix/linux
and then run the process flow which has the mappings
If you are using Windows OS then:
have a program which will extract the mail from your local mailbox onto a server, there are few softwares available in the market
use the option of writing it into a table or follow the flag file approach stated above.

Locking source tables during process flow

Hi All,
I have a process flow which calls multiple mappings and stored procedures. I pull data from source located in different database and insert data into current database. Since, this migration is delta migration, I want to make sure that during migration, no user should add data into source till migration is successfully completed.
I had called a procedure which locks individual tables, but as soon as next mapping is completed the lock gets released, since each mappings commits data. I want that the lock should be active till all mappings gets completed.
Regards,
Danish

Commit will release all locks. Therefor, no matter how you lock the table, the lock will release when you commit the map. An alternative might be to capture a frozen image of the data into a local GTT created with the on commit preserve rows option.

URGENT:error while deploying a process flow

EMP_COUNT is a mapping which i have deployed .
when i try to deploy a process flow i get the following error:
OMB05602: An unknown Deployment error has occured for Object Type API8028: No signature is available for mapping EMP_COUNT because the generation language is undefined. Please set the generation language property of this mapping, or generate this mapping to set the generation language property to a default value..
thnx in advance

OMB+> OMBALTER MAPPING 'EMP_COUNT' SET PROPERTIES (GENERATION_LANGUAGE) VALUES ('PLSQL')
Fast enough? ;-)
Regards,
Detlef

Cannot deploy process flow package specification from file

Hi,
we are using owb 11gr2 on linux. We successfully managed to deploy mappings and tables into a specification file, and then deploy from that file into the target database (RAC). But when we try to deploy a process flow package we run into an error:
A process flow package can be deployed to a specification file. But a deployment from that specification file fails with the error: " OMB05623: Cannot deploy specification from file. Exception follows. nulll"
### SETUP
set CONN_DESIGN "xxx"
set CONN_TARGET_DESIGN "yyy"
set CONN_TARGET_RT "xxx'"
set DIR "D:\\tmp"
set RELEASE "V0_2"
set file "$DIR\\$RELEASE"
set plan "FILE_DEPLOY_$RELEASE"
### Deployment via control center: works!
OMBCONNECT $CONN_DESIGN
OMBCONNECT CONTROL_CENTER $CONN_TARGET_RT
OMBCC '/KLINGEL_DWH'
OMBCREATE TRANSIENT DEPLOYMENT_ACTION_PLAN '$plan'
OMBALTER DEPLOYMENT_ACTION_PLAN '$plan' ADD ACTION 'PF_TEST' SET PROPERTIES (OPERATION) VALUES ('REPLACE') SET REFERENCE PROCESS_FLOW_PACKAGE '/KLINGEL_DWH/WF_DWH/PF_TEST'
OMBDEPLOY DEPLOYMENT_ACTION_PLAN '$plan'
OMBDISCONNECT CONTROL_CENTER
OMBCOMMIT
OMBDISCONNECT
### Deployment via specificatin file: fails!
OMBCONNECT $CONN_DESIGN
OMBCONNECT CONTROL_CENTER $CONN_DESIGN
OMBCC '/KLINGEL_DWH'
OMBCREATE TRANSIENT DEPLOYMENT_ACTION_PLAN '$plan'
OMBALTER DEPLOYMENT_ACTION_PLAN '$plan' ADD ACTION 'PF_TEST' SET PROPERTIES (OPERATION) VALUES ('REPLACE') SET REFERENCE PROCESS_FLOW_PACKAGE '/KLINGEL_DWH/WF_DWH/PF_TEST'
OMBDEPLOY DEPLOYMENT_ACTION_PLAN '$plan' AS SPECIFICATION TO '$file.xml'
OMBDROP DEPLOYMENT_ACTION_PLAN '$plan'
OMBDISCONNECT CONTROL_CENTER
OMBCOMMIT
OMBDISCONNECT
OMBCONNECT CONTROL_CENTER $CONN_TARGET_RT
OMBDEPLOY SPECIFICATION FROM '$file.xml'
### OMB05623: Deployment von Spezifikation aus Datei nicht möglich. Exception folgt. null
###OMB05623: Cannot deploy specification from file. Exception follows. nullIf we use the operation DROP it works. But REPLACE and CREATE do not work.
We get the error regardless whether the code is executed as an expert or on the command line at a windows client.
Does anyone knows a workaround?
Deployment via a specification file is a must due to license and architecture requirements.
Thanks,
Carsten.

Its woked fine for me for OWB 10.2.0.4 .... some steps are missing from code like
when you are connecting again it should be
OMBDISCONNECT
OMBCONNECT CONTROL_CENTER $CONN_TARGET_RT
OMBDISCONNECT
OMBCC '/KLINGEL_DWH'
OMBCONNECT CONTROL_CENTER $CONN_TARGET_RTI think you can try the same on different system .
Cheers
Nawneet

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Hi,
I'm trying to implement the following A/R process flow:
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Hi,
no, it's something different. It is because we want to be paid before shipping anything.
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