Process Chain - triggering sub chains at set time interval

Hi all,
Scenario:
I want to setup multiple process chains during the day (hourly intervals). I would like to have a main chain which would then trigger subsequent chains. the problem is that when i tried to setup the sub-chains to run at say, 10am. 11am etc, they don't fire off at those specified times (because they are part of the meta chain?). I currently have the individual chains running independently (i.e. first chain at 10am, 2nd chain at 11am...) - but i need to be able to stop the 2nd chain from running if there is a problem on the 1st chain (which is why i want to run them as part of a Meta chain).
Hope this makes sense - and any help/assistance is much appreciated! Thanks
M.

Do you know how long 1st PC will run ? will it finish before 11 am ?
If so, try following proess
Add Abap Program process(under General Services) to the end of the 1st PC and use program BTC_EVENT_RAISE and Enter Program variant = event and activate the PC
Now go to 2nd PC and schedule at 11 am periodically
Add another step Interrupt Process (u can find under General Services ) just after start process and enter event and schedule the pc
When 1st Pc completes sucessfully it will activate the event to trigger 2nd PC , though the event is activated the 2nd pc will start at 11am
Hope it's clear!

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>
> Hi All,
>
> We modified several process chain and transported the process chain to Test system.
> Few Process chain triggered automatically as the varient was set to immediate in development system.
> Now we want to move the process chain to production. Do we need
>
> 1. new transport request with the variant to future date and discard the transport request which created issues
> 2. New transport request with the variant to future date and transport the new along with the old transport to production system
> 3. Change the start date in Test system and transport the same request to production
>
> Kindly advice me on the action to be taken.
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