Change Run in Process Chains

I am running process chains early morning. I one process chain I am carry out an attribute change run on 0MAT_PLANT and on the other on different InfoObjects. Can these run at the same time or if they do can they cause a lock? Thanks

Funny... My reply would have been "no", as in our system parallel activation always creates lock situations. We do all our attribute change runs in serial.
Check out note 903886:
<i>(2)You cannot execute several change runs in parallel (do not confuse this with the 'parallel processing' described in Note 534630). For more information, see Note 825927.</i>
Eduard

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HI All,
How to run attribute change run in process chain when it fails. Give me the procedure with clear description. Is there is any difference with 3.x versions in running this.
Thanks,
Pratap Reddy

Hi Pratap.
If BI Accelerator is not being implemented by ur company, in that case if change run fails u'll proceed by 'Repeat' process option as usual we do in 3.x.
If BIA is exists, in this scenario u can not repeat as we do in 3.x. U have to drop the indexes on cubes effecting that change run and run the change runs. Once it is finished recreate BIA Indexes on cubes.
Warm Regards,
Ramki

What is Attribute change run in process chain

Hi Everyone,
Can anyone please give some information regarding "Attribute Change Run" in process chain. And how it is useful ?

Hi Aditya,
You need to schedule an attribute change run when you change master data attributes or hierarchies that are used as navigational attributes or in aggregates. There is a simple test to check if you need an aggregate change run. Load your attributes and look into the master data table (directly via SE16). If you only have entries with OBJVERS = 'A' (active) then you don't need a change run. If you have entries with OBJVERS = 'I' then you need to schedule a change run after upload.
Look at these previous threads
Re: When to use Attribute change Run
Re: Attribute Change Run
Regards,
R.Ravi

Problem in Activating Hierarchy Attribute change run through process chain.

Hi All,
I have the problem in Hierarchy change run processw running through process chain..and also process chain completes successfully without any error..
Even hierarchy change run completes successfully the hierarchy objects are not activating,
so daily when i have to activate hierarchy objects manually..
and what i did was in one attributechange run process i have included 10 hierarchy object is it correct or else i have to separatly create 10 attribute change hierachy proceess in the process chain.. pls through some lights on this issue
With regards,
Hari

Hi venkat,
Yes.. i already include the save hierarchies process in process chain...
my main problem is hierarchy infobject are not activating using process chain and also even process chain is not giving error message.. and in which log table the hierarchy objects are maintained (such as run time, date , status etc..).
IS there is any other settings to be made in process chain..
with regards,
hari

Regarding attribute change runs in process chains

Hi All,
While creating process chain for master data objects. I am trying to incorporate attribute change run process type for an info object. But the system asks for the DTP of the attribute and when i choose the DTP then both DTP and then Attribute are being incorporated. This is not exactly a problem but i need to understand why it is happening as i am already using that DTP to load data. Will this affect the data in master data object?. Thanks in advance.
regards
satish

Hi Bhagyarekha,
The reason behind that error could be:
An attempt is made to activate a characteristic whose compounding was replaced and whose navigation attributes were simultaneously deleted. The replacement of the compounding temporarily deletes the M view of the characteristic during internal activation. The process of deleting navigation attributes involves converting the attribute SID tables. However, the M-view of the characteristic, which has just been deleted, is needed for this conversion.
Check this SAP Note:
Note 684405 - Replacing the compounding and deleting navigation attr.
Hope it helps.
Veerendra.

Attribute Change Run in Process Chain failed with SQL 942 error

Hi,
Attribute change run in th eprocess chain failed with the message " SQL Error 942" and ran succesfully after repeating the step.Searched in Forums for similar error but the solutions were not apt.
Any pointers would be of great help!!
Thanks in advance,
Bhagyarekha.

Hi Bhagyarekha,
The reason behind that error could be:
An attempt is made to activate a characteristic whose compounding was replaced and whose navigation attributes were simultaneously deleted. The replacement of the compounding temporarily deletes the M view of the characteristic during internal activation. The process of deleting navigation attributes involves converting the attribute SID tables. However, the M-view of the characteristic, which has just been deleted, is needed for this conversion.
Check this SAP Note:
Note 684405 - Replacing the compounding and deleting navigation attr.
Hope it helps.
Veerendra.

Attr change run in Process chain!

Hi,
For uploading Master data, we do have different process chains ( Eight to Nine ) for each client and for each source system!
Now the requireement is such that there must be only two Two process chains one for daily uploads and another for weekly uploads!
i coule create a Meta chain which shall be calling all the daily upload Process chains in series!
But what about the attribute change runs?
i had actually included this Attr change run process for each client comibing the other process chains ( Attr, Texts and Hierarchy )
Now since the modelling has been changed for the daily and weekly process chains, i am puzzled about the attribute change run processes!
Because we have lot of infoobjects which are existing in both the clients
Any ideas?
Raj

Hi Raj,
You can solve your problem in 2 ways :
1.Include Attr.change run in each of your local PC or,
2.In your Meta chain ..arrange your Local Chains in parallel
& have a single Attr.change process...here you can select your object type as Infoobject & include all your Infoobjects... one after another... for which you want to run the Attr.change.
Regards,
Chandan

Attribute Change Run in Process Chain

I'm making a process chain purely for attributes. Every time I add an infopackage for attributes I get prompted to make an attribute change run. Do I need an attribute change after every attribute infopackage or can I just have one at the end?

Hi,
You can have one attribute change run at the end of the process chain for all the attribute loads.
Cheers,
Malli.

Attribute Change Run in Process Chain Texts?

Dear Colleagues!
A simlple question: Do you have an Attributes change run in the end of a Process Chain only containing text? (Master Data text) Or i s it sufficient to have it after attributes?
Regards
Silje

Hi,
Attribute chage run is meant only for Attr/Hierarchies.
No need to include it for texts.
For the texts changes were automatically reflected with out change run.
Regards
Jonn

Error while running the process chain

Hi, I am getting following error while running the process chain.
"Lock NOT set for: Deleting the data completely from a data target"
Please suggest.
amit

hi,
This is due to a lock on the objects which is being used by ur load.
Even if master data used by this would be in a lock by an attribute change run. wait till that attribute change run finishes and then repeat.
If this target itself is locked by someother process like rollup , compression , this error would appear. In this case also repeat the step after those locking process finish.
some general locks during loading:
Sometimes parallel processing in DTP might lead to this, its better set the DTP and infopackage in serial processing. In this case change the settings and then repeat the process.
There is a specific case in which the Serial DTP gets locked by itself, in this case repeat it untill it succeeds.
You can identify the above scenario as below. This is applicable only if the DTPs processing mode is serial.
if u see in SM 37 this load would have three DTP processes running.
it should have only two.
In this case cancel the process and repeat it untill u get it right.
hope this helps u
regard,
ranjith
Edited by: Ranjith Kumar Murugesan on Sep 12, 2008 10:44 AM
Edited by: Ranjith Kumar Murugesan on Sep 12, 2008 10:46 AM

Authorizations setting for running the process chain

Hai
Iam planning to run the process chain for loading the data into ODS. But i dont have authorization for it.
so what are the authorizations i need to run the process chain in my system. And how can i set all those authorizations to my user-id. I have all authorization rights .
Pls let me knw
kumar

Hi,
Authorizations for Process Chains
Use
You use authorization checks in process chain maintenance to lock the process chain, and the processes of the chain, against actions by unauthorized users.
·        You control whether a user is allowed to perform specific activities.
·        You control whether a user is allowed to schedule the processes in a chain.
The authorization check for the processes in a chain runs when the system performs the check. This takes place upon scheduling or during synchronous execution. The check is performed in display mode. The check is performed for each user that schedules the chain; it is not performed for the user who executes the chain. The user who executes the chain is usually the BI background user. The BI background user automatically has the required authorizations for executing all BI process types. In attribute maintenance for the process chain, you can determine the user who is to execute the process chain.
See also: Display/Maintenance of Process Chain Attributes ® Execution User.
Features
For the administration processes that are bundled in a process chain, you require authorization for authorization object S_RS_ADMWB.
To work with process chains, you require authorization for authorization object S_RS_PC. You use this authorization object to determine whether process chains can be displayed, changed or executed, and whether logs can be deleted. You can use the name of the process chain as the basis for the restriction, or restrict authorizations to chains using the application components to which they are assigned.
Display/Maintain Process Chain Attributes
Use
You can display technical attributes, display or create documentation for a process chain, and determine the response of process chains during execution.
Features
You can display or maintain the following attributes for a process chain:
Process Chain ® Attribute ® ...
Information
Description
( Rename)
You can change the name of the process chain.
Display Components
Display components are the evaluation criterion in the process chain maintenance. Assigning the process chains to display components makes it easier to access the chain you want.
To create a new display component, choose Assign Display Components in the input help window and assign a technical name and description for the display component in the Display Grouping dialog box that appears.
Documents
You can create and display documents for a process chain.
For more information, see Documents.
Last Changed By
Displays the technical attributes of the process chain:
·        When it was last changed and who by
·        When it was last activated and who by
·        Object directory entry
Evaluation of Process Status
If you set this indicator, all the incorrect processes in this chain and in the overall status of the run are evaluated as successful; if you have scheduled a successor process upon error or always.
The indicator is relevant when using metachains: Errors in the processes of the subchains can be evaluated as unimportant for the metachain run. The subchain is evaluated as successful, despite errors in such processes of the subchain. If, in the metachain, the successor of the subchain is scheduled upon success, the metachain run continues despite errors in unimportant processes of the subchain.
Mailing and alerting are not affected by this indicator and are still triggered for incorrect processes if they have an upon error successor.
Polling Indicator
With this indicator you can control the response of the main process for distributed processes. Distributed processes, such as the load process, are characterized as having different work processes involved in specific tasks.
With the polling indicator you determine whether the main process needs to be kept until the actual process has ended.
By selecting the indicator:
-         A high level of process security is guaranteed, and
-         External scheduling tools can be provided with the status of the distributed processes.
However, the system uses more resources; and a background process is required.
Monitoring
With the indicator in the dialog box Remove Chain from Automatic Monitoring?, you can specify that a process chain be removed from the automatic monitoring using CCMS.
By default CCMS switches on the automatic process chain monitoring.
For more information about the CCMS context Process Chains, see the section BW Monitor in CCMS.
Alerting
You can send alerts using alert management when errors occur in a process chain.
For more information, see Send Alerts for Process Chains.
Background Server
You can specify here on which server or server group all of the jobs of a chain are scheduled. If you do not make an entry, the background management distributes the jobs between the available servers.
Processing Client
If you use process chains in a client-dependent application, you can determine here in which client the chain is to be used. You can only display, edit, schedule or execute the chain in this client.
If you do not maintain this attribute, you can display, edit, schedule or execute the process chain in all clients.
Process variants of type General Services that are contained in a process chain with this attribute set will only be displayed in the specified client.
This attribute is transported. You can change it by specifying an import client during import. You must create a destination to the client set here in the target system for the import post processing (transaction RSTPRFC) The chain is activated after import and scheduled, if necessary, in this client.
Execution User
In the standard setting a BI background user executes the process chain (BWREMOTE).
You can change the default setting so that you can see the user that executes the process chain and therefore the processes, in the Job Overview. You can select the current dialog user who schedules the process chain job, or specify a different user.
The setting is transported.
The BI background user has all the necessary authorizations to execute all BI process types. Other users must assign themselves these authorizations so that authorization errors do not occur during processing.
Job Priority
You use this attribute to set the job priority for all of the jobs in a process chain.
Hareesh

RFC ERROR while running BI Process Chain

I'm recieving the following error while running certain Process Chains in BI.
RFC error: FAILED
RFC Message: FAILED
The system log in BI shows the following.
Communication error, CPIC return code 017, SAP return code 672
672 Logon to Netweaver failed
Other process chains work correctly via CPS.
Any Ideas?
Thanks

This looks like a BW problem. Do you get the same message when you submit it manually in SAP?

ABAP PROGRAM to run a process chain

Hello all,
What is the ABAP program to run a process chain after a step that has failed but is manually corrected?
In short a std ABAP program to run a pc.
Regards,
NIKEKAB

Hi.
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SET CURRENT DEGREE = 1..error when run the process chain..

Hi Experts,
when i run the process chain , i got the following error..
SET CURRENT DEGREE = 1..
what is this error?
Kindly help ..

hi,
As BW reporting queries are often CPU-intensive and geneally executed in parallel.
Parallel processing is activated dynamically in the SAP BW system for every reporting query CURRENT DEGREE = ANY and itsdefault value is 1.
you can limit the maximum number of parallel tasks using ZPARM PARAMDEG(maximum number of parallel tasks ) for the no. of parallel processors for its usuage and this should match no. of processors you can get touch with your basis team
check SAP Note:390016 -DB2/390: BW: Database settings and performance ; in that look at query parallelism it explain about this
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Including an Event Data Change in a Process Chain

There is a step called "_Execution with Data Change in InfoProvider_" in the process of including event data change in a process chain.
How do we carryout this? should this be done in Bex or in process chain itself?

Dear Eshwari,
1) To get the 'Execution on data change' option, you need to have aprocess chain with the 'Event data
change' process type which contains 'the infoprovider' (The infoprovider, over which the query is created
which you are trying to broadcast) in the process variant of it.
2) Further more, additional authorization is also needed in order for the user to see such scheduling options in broadcaster.
Please assign this authorization object to the affected users.
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