OWB internal error ProcessPackageGenerator

Question

We are running OWB 9.2.0.4 on Oracle 9.2.0.5 running Windows 2000 Advanced Server. We have been working fine for several weeks. Today, several of our process flows fail to deploy with the following error:
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OWB Error
oracle.wh.repos.sdk.exceptions.WBException: Internal Error: ProcessPackageGenerator.generate
WBGeneratedObject([] is null or length 0 for PPCT_PKG
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When I click on the Detail button the following text is displayed:
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oracle.wh.repos.sdk.exceptions.WBException: Internal Error: ProcessPackageGenerator.generate WBGeneratedObject[] is null or length 0 for PPCT_PKG
oracle.wh.repos.sdk.exceptions.WBException: Internal Error: ProcessPackageGenerator.generate WBGeneratedObject[] is null or length 0 for PPCT_PKG
     at oracle.wh.ui.runtime.application.WHRuntimeProgress.notifyInternalError(WHRuntimeProgress.java:180)
     at oracle.wh.ui.runtime.application.WHRuntimeGeneration.run(WHRuntimeGeneration.java:98)
\nCMPException message and stack trace:\njava.lang.Exception: Internal Error: ProcessPackageGenerator.generate WBGeneratedObject[] is null or length 0 for PPCT_PKG
     at oracle.wh.service.impl.runtime.generation.ProcessPackageGenerator.generate(ProcessPackageGenerator.java:123)
     at oracle.wh.service.impl.runtime.generation.ProcessPackageGenerator.generateProcessPackage(ProcessPackageGenerator.java:451)
     at oracle.wh.service.impl.runtime.generation.ProcessPackageGenerator.generate(ProcessPackageGenerator.java:97)
     at oracle.wh.service.impl.runtime.generation.DeploymentGenerator.generate(DeploymentGenerator.java:75)
     at oracle.wh.service.impl.runtime.UnitControllerImpl.defineUnit(UnitControllerImpl.java:130)
     at oracle.wh.service.impl.runtime.UnitControllerImpl.<init>(UnitControllerImpl.java:78)
     at oracle.wh.service.impl.runtime.DeploymentControllerImpl.defineControllerList(DeploymentControllerImpl.java:249)
     at oracle.wh.service.impl.runtime.DeploymentControllerImpl.<init>(DeploymentControllerImpl.java:50)
     at oracle.wh.service.impl.runtime.DeploymentSpecificationImpl.createController(DeploymentSpecificationImpl.java:395)
     at oracle.wh.ui.runtime.application.WHRuntimeGeneration.run(WHRuntimeGeneration.java:86)

Answer 1

Hi Ed,
Sadly that's pretty much what I did at the moment: I had to manually rebuild all dimension/fact tables that were affected by that small change. I tried to contact oracle support and posted these same messages on the Metalink but didn't get too far that way.
The thing is that I'm having the same problem now: I changed a dimension attribute datatype from VARCHAR2 to INTEGER and stumbled upon the same situation, which, at this point in the development process, freaked me out. The affected dimension and related cubes were invalidated by this change. I then changed the datatype from INTEGER to NUMBER and everything seems to be working properly.
I know this is not much help. I haven't been able to find a root cause for this behavior, which, strangely enough, nobody else seems to be experiencing.
If I happen to find anything on this, I'll let you know.
Regards,
--osvaldo.
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