Forms Runaway Process

I have a situation where some of the instances/services are still hanging even after the form is closed. The env I have is 9IASrel2 and Forms9i. This happens ooccasionaly and requires a restart of the forms server. Is there a praticular way to code the exit forms to avoid this or is this a bug. We did set the heart beat parameter in the Application Server but this is not a fix.
Thanks
Harsha

FORMS90_TIMEOUT will define the time after which a Forms process will "clean itself up" if it does not hear from the client.
Try this and also you may also need to educate your users to exit the Forms application in a "clean" manner and not by killing the browser.
Regards
Grant Ronald
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How to kill Forms Runaway Process using 95% CPU and running for 2 hours.

We had a situation at E-Business Suite customer (using Oracle VM server) where some of Form processes were not being cleared by form timeout settings automatically.
Also when user exits the form session from front end, the linux form process (PID) and DB session did not exit properly, so they got hung.
They were spiking CPU and memory usage and causing e-business suite to perform slowely and ultimately causing VM host to reboot the production VM guest (running on Linux).
We could see the form processes (PIDs) using almost 100% cpu with "top" command and running for a long time.
Also we verified those Form Sessions did not exist in the application itself.
ie. Using from Grid Control -> OAM-> Site Map -> Monitoring (tab) -> "Form Sessions".
It means that we could safely kill that form process from Linux using "kill -9 <PID>" command.
But that required a continuous monitoring and manual DBA intervention as customer is 24x7 customer.
So, I wrote a shell script to do the following;
•     Cron job runs every half an hour 7 days a week which calls this shell script.
•     Shell script runs and tries to find "top two" f60webmx processes (form sessions) using over 95% cpu with 2 minutes interval.
•     If no process is found or CPU% is less than 95%, it exits and does nothing.
•     If top process is found, it searches for its DB session using apps login (with hidden apps password file - /home/applmgr/.pwd).
a.     If DB session is NOT found (which means form process is hung), it kills the process from unix and emails results to <[email protected]>
b.     If DB session is found, it waits for 2 hours so that form process times automatically via form session timeout setting.
It also emails the SQL to check the DB session for that form process.
c.     If DB session is found and it does not timeout after 2 hours,
it kills the process from unix (which in turn kills the DB session). Output is emailed.
This are the files required for this;
1. Cron job which calls the shell script looks like this;
# Kill form runaway process, using over 95% cpu having no DB session or DB session for > 2hrs
00,30 * * * * /home/applmgr/forms_runaway.sh 2>&1
2. SQL that this script calls is /home/applmgr/frm_runaway.sql and looks like;
set head off
set verify off
set feedback off
set pagesize 0
define form_client_PID = &1
select count(*) from v$session s , v$process p, FND_FORM_SESSIONS_V f where S.AUDSID=f.audsid and p.addr=s.paddr and s.process='&form_client_PID';
3. Actual shell script is /home/applmgr/forms_runaway.sh and looks like;
# Author : Amandeep Singh
# Description : Kills runaway form processes using more than 95% cpu
# and Form Session with no DB session or DB session > 2hrs
# Dated : 11-April-2012
#!/bin/bash
. /home/applmgr/.bash_profile
PWD=`cat ~/.pwd`
export PWD
echo "`date`">/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "----------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
VAR1=`top -b -u applmgr -n 1|grep f60webmx|grep -v sh|grep -v awk|grep -v top|sort -nrk9|head -2|sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'| awk '{ if ($9 > 95 && $12 = "f60webmx") print $1 " "$9 " "$11 " "$12; }'`
PID1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $1}'`
CPU1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $2}'`
TIME1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $3}'`
PROG1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $4}'`
PID_1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $5}'`
CPU_1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $6}'`
TIME_1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $7}'`
PROG_1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $8}'`
echo "PID1="$PID1", CPU%="$CPU1", Running Time="$TIME1", Program="$PROG1>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "PID_1="$PID_1", CPU%="$CPU_1", Running Time="$TIME_1", Program="$PROG_1>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo " ">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
sleep 120
echo "`date`">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "----------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
VAR2=`top -b -u applmgr -n 1|grep f60webmx|grep -v sh|grep -v awk|grep -v top|sort -nrk9|head -2|sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'| awk '{ if ($9 > 95 && $12 = "f60webmx") print $1 " "$9 " "$11 " "$12; }'`
PID2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $1}'`
CPU2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $2}'`
TIME2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $3}'`
PROG2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $4}'`
PID_2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $5}'`
CPU_2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $6}'`
TIME_2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $7}'`
PROG_2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $8}'`
HRS=`echo $TIME1|cut -d: -f1`
exprHRS=`expr "$HRS"`
echo "PID2="$PID2", CPU%="$CPU2", Running Time="$TIME2", Program="$PROG2>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "PID_2="$PID_2", CPU%="$CPU_2", Running Time="$TIME_2", Program="$PROG_2>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo " ">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
# If PID1 or PID2 is NULL
if [ -z ${PID1} ] || [ -z ${PID2} ]
then
echo "no top processes found. Either PID is NULL OR CPU% is less than 95%. Exiting...">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
elif
# If PID1 is equal to PID2 or PID1=PID_2 or PID_1=PID2 or PID_1=PID_2
[ ${PID1} -eq ${PID2} ] || [ ${PID1} -eq ${PID_2} ] || [ ${PID_1} -eq ${PID2} ] || [ ${PID_1} -eq ${PID_2} ];
then
DB_SESSION=`$ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus -S apps/$PWD @/home/applmgr/frm_runaway.sql $PID1 << EOF
EOF`
echo " ">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "DB_SESSION ="$DB_SESSION >>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
# if no DB session found for PID
if [ $DB_SESSION -eq 0 ] then
echo " ">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "Killed Following Runaway Forms Process:">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "PID="$PID1", CPU%="$CPU1", Running Time="$TIME1", Program="$PROG1>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
kill -9 $PID1
#Email the output
mailx -s "Killed: `hostname -a` Runaway Form Processes" [email protected] </tmp/runaway_forms.log
cat /tmp/runaway_forms.log
else
# If DB session exists for PID
if [ ${exprHRS} -gt 120 ]; then
echo $DB_SESSION "of Database sessions exist for this forms process-PID="$PID1". But its running for more than 2 hours. ">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "Process running time is "$exprHRS" minutes.">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "Killed Following Runaway Forms Process:">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "PID="$PID1", CPU%="$CPU1", Running Time="$TIME1", Program="$PROG1>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
kill -9 $PID1
#Email the output
mailx -s "`hostname -a`: Runaway Form Processes" [email protected] </tmp/runaway_forms.log
cat /tmp/runaway_forms.log
else
echo "Process running time is "$exprHRS" minutes.">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo $DB_SESSION "of Database sessions exist for PID="$PID1" and is less than 2 hours old. Not killing...">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "For more details on this PID, run following SQL query;">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "set pages 9999 lines 150">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "select f.user_form_name, f.user_name, p.spid DB_OS_ID , s.process client_os_id,, s.audsid, f.PROCESS_SPID Forms_SPID,">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "to_char(s.logon_time,'DD-Mon-YY hh:mi:ss'), s.seconds_in_wait">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "from v\$session s , v\$process p, FND_FORM_SESSIONS_V f">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "where S.AUDSID=f.audsid and p.addr=s.paddr and s.process='"$PID1"' order by p.spid;">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
mailx -s "`hostname -a`: Runaway Form Processes" [email protected] </tmp/runaway_forms.log
cat /tmp/runaway_forms.log
fi
fi
else
#if PID1 and PID2 are not equal or CPU% is less than 95%.
echo "No unique CPU hogging form processes found. Exiting...">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
cat /tmp/runaway_forms.log
fi
If you have the same problem with some other unix and DB processes, the script can be easily modified and used.
But use this with thorough testing first (by commenting out <kill -9 $PID1> lines.
Good luck.
Edited by: R12_AppsDBA on 19/04/2012 13:10

Thanks for sharing the script!
Hussein

Frmweb runaway process

Hi All,
Is there a way to validate if a frmweb that consume alot of ressource is still active or a runaway process?
Any SQL query to validate this?
Thank you,
Felix

Good morning Hussein,
When looking in OAM (OAM -> Site Map -> Monitoring tab -> Form Runtime Processes -> View Runaways), it seems like Oracle can detect them for you.
I tried to play with the metric but no forms ever came out. I guess I can assume, even if the form consume 45% of ressources, it was still "alive"?
Thank you,
Felix
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Attachment Buttons not coming in Task TS17900101 of HCM Forms and Process

Hi ,
We are using HCM Forms and process for changing employee organization unit which is linked with workflow for approvals.
In this workflow we are calling standard task TS17900101 .Till now every thing is working fine but the problem is with attachments as their is a requirement to show attachments button with this Approve and Reject Task. But as per my knowledge SAP has not given any option to attach documents with this task which is however only possibe through TS17900100.
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Thanks,
Rahul

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I am copying the standard form for change in position attributes.
i have made the necessaryu changes in the form i copied from the standard one.
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Hello experts,
I have a req. in which i have to
1) Create multiple Positions
2) Copy multiple Postions (upto 30)
3) Change multiple Positions(upto 30)
4)Delimit multiple Positions(upto 30)
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OK. So I understand the requirement a bit more now. Ultimately you want 30 positions created but via one form and one workflow.
Ideally in a create mode you would like to save the data multiple times. i.e. put the save data task in a loop, the iterations of which would be governed by an entry on the form? (A 'Number of Instances' field for example).
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Either that or can you clone the process object within the workflow? I think it best to at least use the form to process one position as it will have all the standard error checking, even if you decided to copy the position from within the workflow (via a program exit on a task or a class based based business object?).
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TS17900100 in HCM forms and processes

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If we see the object method for this class in PFTC, it is CLASS:CL_HRASR00_WF_COMPONENTS & METHOD: WI_EXECUTION_VIA_R3_INBOX. But this method seems to be a dummy method. There is no ABAP code in this method.
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Sameer Tapre

No, if I enter all the mandatory fields on the form then there is no problem. It allows me to move ahead and submit the form successfully.
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SAP as a fallback tries to read description from the table T5ASRFSCNFLDT but it has a_form_scenario as blank and complete_fieldname has a concatenated value "Personnel Subarea (I1008_BTRTL)" instead of "I1008-BTRTL".
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Certain forms/process needs to be initiabed by only group of people,
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Can i pass the directly custom intiator role as application parameter to the Iview?any other configuration is required to complete this requirement?
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Thanks for the reply Rick.
For normal workflows its fine. I would like to know for HCM forms and process will it allow or not?
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I am setting up HCM form and Process and I am done with Setting up new scenario and form and workflow steps. When I do the check consistency for Processes I get these 4 error below and not sure what do i do about these error
No error agents maintained in table T5ASRERRORAGENTS
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I am following this tutorial: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60/helpdata/EN/42/f273461e5132c3e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm
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ISR Scenario - it means "Used to call up an interactive form in a form-based process within HR Administrative Services. In the Internet Service Request (ISR) scenario you specify which form is used and the layout of the form."
Form Scenario - Together with the assigned ISR scenario, the form scenario provides the basis for a form-based process such as "Transferu201C.
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One thing that come to my mind was that can Forms Runtime Process
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you cannot separate the runtime from OC4J. But you can separate the HTTP Server from OC4J
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It is my understanding that only one forms runtime process is spawned per session.
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forms runtime process correct?
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CALL_FORM, OPEN_FORM, NEW_FORM are the Built-ins that will help us in creating “Multiple Form Applications”.
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