Cancel message with errors - How to automate this?

Question

XI / PI SDN Community
I think that because of basis team settings every time a message fails to pass through the pipeline (for example a mapping error) XI tries to process this message over and over again for days!
Assuming that basis is not going to change any configuration on their end: Is therer a way to create a job (TCODE sm36) to do this cancel for me? - I mean I have access to go and manually cancel the message with errors tru the moni.
Regards,
José Francisco

Answer 1

Dear Jose,
Hi this is Tarang ...
For cancelling messages on Java engine ( ones that you see on RWB )
1. There is no standard program which would allow you to cancel the messages here
2. you can only set a maxim retry interval...i.e how many times a meesage in error should be retried foe sending...this setting can be done in transaction sxmb_adm....there is a parameter called IS_RETRY for this..
For cancelling the messages on ABAP engine ( ones that you see in MONI)
1. You can cancel them using the report rsxmb_cancel_messages ...but  dont use this report independently...
    coz there are some chances ..due to which you are getting a message in error in moni ..but the message is restartable......then if you directly cancel it , it is not correct
2. you cna club the above report with rsxmb_restart_messages...i.e you can create a job sequence where 1 step would be scheduling thee program rsxmb_restart_messages and then the ones that are not restarted properly ...yu can cancle using the second step in the sequence ....i.e rsxmb_cancel_messages
But be it ABAP / JAVA engine every XI landscape has many of the EOIO interfaces where in the concept is that if the first message in the queue gets stuck ...the message behind that should also get stuck....if you cancel message automatically (say using the above report), there are chances that particular message was configured for EOIO and the message behind that is actuaaly not meant to move ahead..but once you cancel the first message3 the other will go.....which is wrong and against the laws of EOIO...
hence SAP suggests " no automatic cancellation of message neither at ABAP nor at JAVA level should be done"
SAP says that manual cancellation of messages is included in the daily maintenance task of XI
you can obviously play with the number of retries using entry IS_retry
Hope this helps
Edited by: Tarang Shah on Mar 6, 2009 11:07 AM