Failed meta chain maintenance in Process chain in SAP BI

Hi all,
I have a Process chain having the meta chain of master data population.When successful , proceeds with the further steps in process chain. It has been scheduled in midnight.
After monitoring the PC , found the error in the master meta chain , so i repeat the step.
Here , after success of meta chain all steps gets running down the line till the end step in PC.
I do not want to re-run the steps below meta chain after repeat step.
Any Ideas to ignore the re-run ??

Hi,
If your Process is still running(Yellow color status) then right click it and go to Schduled Jobs. On this you will go to Job Overview there you can press STOP.
Else go to the SM37, there you can go and select your process using your process ID and STOP it.
And if you want to kill the complete process chain then go for Remove from Schedule.
Different Ways to stop process chain
1)SM37 -->Kill Job
2)SM50/sm66- ->Kill process
3)RSPC>Job Log>Make the process RED forecefully.
4)RSPC>Process chain> main Menu"Remove from Scheduling" OR
5)se37-->RSPC_API_CHAIN_INTERRUPT
give RFC BW system name(technical) and process chain name(technical)
Steps 1 -3 stops the chain running in process
Steps 4-5 stops the chain AFTER the current job which is running is completed as sucessful or Failure by nature.
Hope this helps you.

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Edited by: BIuser on Aug 10, 2009 1:13 PM

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u can proceed with the immediate schedule of that local chain for today and then do as what I have suggested.. this will resolve ur issue..
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Thanks
Assigning poins is the way to say thanks... If ur issue is resolved then u can close this thread by assigning points..

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and plz breif me about meta chain and local chain why we have to use them and where we have to use them?
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Im facing a problem with the triggering to the Process Chains.
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BI_PROCESS_TRIGGER in the job log:
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Step 001 started (program RSPROCESS, variant XXXXX,
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When I run the main chain (F8) it executes fine but as it enters the local chain it seems to hang. (The other branches of the main chain run to completion).
SM37 shows the following status for the local chain:
BI_PROCESS_CHAIN as Active
BI_PROCESS_TRIGGER as Active (Job log shows 'Job Started' and no further info)
The Job log for BI_PROCESS_CHAIN shows the following:
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Hi All,
The problem is resolved by deleting the lock in SM37.
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