Does anyone know what job(s) is/are called when processing applications ??

Question

I need to find out what job(s) is/are called in BPC 5.1, when I tick the box marked "Process Application" (in Admin Manager) and then hit "Modifiy Application".
Basically, I need to schedule this task, but the AdminTask_Process in SSIS does not do all of the required steps (such as rebuilding dependency tables).
I have asked SAP this question a week ago, but had nothing back, so I'm hoping that someone on here can point me in the right direction.
Thanks
Craig

Answer 1

As you probably know, a full optimize of any application(s) deletes the dependencies from the FACT tables of thos app's.
Without the dependencies, a lot of our larger jobs fail, as there are no indexes to refere to, so the entire tables are searched/updated.
To avoid the failures, after running a full optimize, we have to manually process each application that was affected (currently 7 apps) in Admin Manager.
Part of the full process is to rebuild the dependencies (amongst other things)
As you can imagine, this is a time-consuming process, and one of my colleagues is having to dial in to our systems to perform this task each Sunday.  (We have reduced the full optimizes to once a week because of this problem).
We need to get back to daily optimizes, but this is impossible right now, because of this problem.
This is why I need to be able to schedule it - I would schedule the full optimization for, say, 3am, followed by a scheduled task to run the process job at 5am to rebuild the dependencies and re-index before anyone starts work each day.
I know that the problem is fixed in SP11 of 5.1 (and in SP6 of v7), but whilst this is released 18/09/09, it will be months before we are ready to implement it due to testing and deployment windows.
So I need to know what procedure(s) are called when I tick the "Process Application" box in Admin Manager and hit "Modify Application".
As it is a simple tick-box, there has to be a check in the software that says "If this box is ticked then do this, this and this"
I just need to know what "this, this and this" are.
In the meantime, I have come up with a "dirty" way to do it, which is by dropping and recreating the Stored Procedures that depend on the FACT tables.
By doing that, they automatically update the FACT table dependency list and re-index.
However, as I am just imitating the jobs that I can see running through SQL Profiler, I could easily be missing steps.
Therefore, I would like to be able to just call the BPC process that controls the Processing job.
Hope that helps.
Any suggestions ???
Thanks
Craig