Passing parameters to the process chain

Hi friends,
I want to know ,how to pass parameters to the process chain. Suppose i want to pass parameter to my DTP in my process chain in order to filter the data and do the delta upload in my cube .

Hi,
I dont think there is any direct way to achieve this.
There is a work Around which can be achieved with help of abap.
You need to write ABAP routine to get the selection values from user and store them in the table TVARVC.
Then you need to write a routine in the DTP filter to fetch these values.
In the ABAP program where you get the values, you can trigger the process chain once the values are entered for the selections using an event,
Regds,
Shashank

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data error(50) type c.
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Edited by: Ranjith Kumar Murugesan on Sep 12, 2008 10:46 AM

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ODS 2 : Service Order Header. (0CRM_PROH)
In CRM, if any Service Order is created, it is available in delta Queue(RSA7) immediately.
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1. First i am loading the data to ODS 1 (Status ODS). Early Morning 2.30AM and it completes the data load at 2.40AM. And document posting is happening on 2.37AM and ODS 1 doesnt pull the data of document posted.
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3.While loading all the data is available, and while loading to ODS 2, it is checking the status ODS. And it is checking for the document posted on 2.37AM and this document is not there in Status ODS 1 and the data(posted on 2.37AM) will not update in ODS 2.
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2. Load Infopackage to PSA only for ODS 2.
3. Load Infopackage to PSA and activate ODS for ODS 1 (Status ODS)
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5. Activate the ODS.
I tried, but i got a error message while designing the process Chains.
No type "Activate DataStore Object Data" process can be in front of process "Read PSA and Update Data Target" variable PSA_SERVICE_ORDER in the chain
Pls suggest how to recify this according to my design.
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Hi,
You can try this..
.......................................... Start ...................................................
Load data to PSA (ODS 2) ..................................... Load data to PSA (ODS 1)
..................................................................................Load data to ODS 1
...................................................................................Activate ODS 1
........................................... AND ..........................................................
........................................ Load data to ODS 2 .............................................
.......................................... Activate ODS 2 ...........................................
Regards,
Anup.
Edited by: Anup ShankarBS on Sep 3, 2009 4:56 PM

Warning Error message while scheduling the Process Chain

Dear All,
I have created the meta Chain, which contains 7 Local Chains. I have tested this chain in BI Development and Quality. It was working fine. I have moved this Meta Chain to production. While i am trying to schedule this chain, i got the warning message.
Too many parallel processes for chosen server BICI
Message no. RSPC118
Diagnosis
On the server TVSBICI you have chosen, there are only 0 batch processes available. The process chain has been designed in such as way that 3 processes must be processed parallel.
System Response
Only 0 processes can be processed parallel. Note also that to be able to start sub-chains, AT LEAST TWO free batch processes must be available. Otherwise a lock situation may arise.
For more information, see SAP Note 621400.
Procedure
Reduce the number of parallel processes in the chain or include sub- chains. This warning applies to all relevant processes.
Procedure for System Administration
Increase the number of batch processes available. You should note however that it makes no sense to set up more batch processes than there are CPUs on server BICI.
Pls help on this issue.
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Siva.
Edited by: Siva Kumar on Jun 15, 2009 9:16 AM

I have Ignored this warning and now process Chain is working fine.
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Error while collecting the process chain in a transport request

Hi Gurus,
I am getting an error while collecting my process chain in a tranpsort request.I have to transport the request from DEV to QA system.
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1.Object 'REQUDELZPAK_48RZW8GZX87CNEH7S897TFQSD' (RSPV) of type 'Process Variants' is not available in version 'A'
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Sap help given
You wanted to generate an object with the name 'REQUDEL ZPAK_48RZW8GZX87CNEH7S897TFQSD' (in transport request RSPV) of type 'Process Variants' (TLOGO). This is, however, not available in the BW Repository database. It does not exist in the requested version A. If the version is 'D' then it is possible that an error arose during the delivery or installation. If the version is 'A' then the Object was either not created or not activated.
From one of the threads:
(https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspasearchID=10081153&messageID=4623856)
i though it was the problem of patch level sap note(966131).
Accordingly i tried collecting process chain in the request where the patch level is high(24).But same error is seen.
I have activated chain again & then tried collecting the request i the process chain.But did not solve the error.
I have to collect Process chain in a transport request.Can you help me out to solve the problem?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Pallavi

Hi,
take a look:
Data Warehousing
"Errors occurred during post-handling RS_AFTER_IMPORT for MPRO L "
Errors occurred during post-handling RS_AFTER_IMPORT for ROUT L
Try to set the Process Chain Start to Immediate(background jobs) in the schedule, because this will trigger the process chain once tranported and may cause similar errors.
Regards
Andreas

Error while executing the Process chain

Hi Friends,
The process chain that I scheduled is getting failed at the Infopackage loading stage.
On checking the diplay message, I found the following log:
Cannot stage requested data for datasource
Error in source system
I activated the datasource in source system, then replicated the same and tried to load data.
But the issue remains the same.
I checked in RSA7. The status corresponding to this datasource is in yellow status.
Can I delete this entry and try again?
Please suggest.
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Hi,
/people/mona.kapur/blog/2008/01/14/process-chain-errors
Deadlock
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/2e/44934257a5c86ae10000000a155106/frameset.htm
Dead Locks
2. Error in unit conversion
Units of measure
3.Error 1 in update
When Src file is already open or not accessible.
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theres no data selected after extraction
5.Caller 70 missing
" This error normally occurs whenever BW encounters error and is not able to classify them. There could be multiple reasons for the same
1) Whenever we are loading the Master Data for the first time, it creates SIDs. If system is unable to create SIDs for the records in the Data packet, we can get this error message.
2) If the Indexes of the cube are not deleted, then it may happen that the system may give the caller 70 error.
3)Whenever we are trying to load the Transactional data which has master data as one of the Characteristics and the value does not exist in Master Data table we get this error. System can have difficultly in creating SIDs for the Master Data and also load the transactional data.
4) If ODS activation is taking place and at the same time there is another ODS activation running parallel then in that case it may happen that the system may classify the error as caller 70. As there were no processes free for that ODS Activation.
5) It also occurs whenever there is a Read/Write occurring in the Active Data Table of ODS. For example if activation is happening for an ODS and at the same time the data loading is also taking place to the same ODS, then system may classify the error as caller 70.
6) It is a system error which can be seen under
the Status tab in the Job Over View.
solution:
" If the Master Data is getting loaded for the first time then in that case we can reduce the Data Package size and load the Info Package. Processing sometimes is based on the size of Data Package. Hence we can reduce the data package size and then reload the data again. We can also try to split the data load into different data loads
If the error occurs in the cube load then we can try to delete the indexes of the cube and then reload the data again.
If we are trying to load the Transactional and Master Data together and this error occurs then we can reduce the size of the Data Package and try reloading, as system may be finding it difficult to create SIDs and load data at the same time. Or we can load the Master Data first and then load Tranactional Data
If the error is happening while ODS activation cause of no processes free, or available for processing the ODS activation, then we can define processes in the T Code RSCUSTA2.
If error is occurring due to Read/Write in ODS then we need to make changes in the schedule time of the data loading.
Once we are sure that the data has not been extracted completely, we can then go ahead and delete the red request from the manage tab in the InfoProvider. Re-trigger the InfoPackage again.
Monitor the load for successful completion, and complete the further loads if any in the Process Chain.
6.Idoc not processed completely.
Here the request remains yellow (in process) and with the same details (as seen in the details tab of the monitor) for an abnormally long time. Many-a-times, the port for communication is not open and re-starting the load helps. For long running jobs, it may not be advisable to restart the extraction
Contact the BASIS administrator to push the IDOC.
look into these links:
/people/siegfried.szameitat/blog/2006/02/26/restarting-processchains
For common data load errors check this link:
/people/siegfried.szameitat/blog/2005/07/28/data-load-errors--basic-checks
Majority of the issues will be based on these things only..
Hope the following links will give u a clear idea about process chains and clear ur doubts.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/events/sap-teched-03/using%20process%20chains%20in%20sap%20business%20information%20warehouse
Business Intelligence Old Forum (Read Only Archive)
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/8f/c08b3baaa59649e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/8da0cd90-0201-0010-2d9a-abab69f10045
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/19683495-0501-0010-4381-b31db6ece1e9
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/36693695-0501-0010-698a-a015c6aac9e1
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9936e790-0201-0010-f185-89d0377639db
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/3507aa90-0201-0010-6891-d7df8c4722f7
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/263de690-0201-0010-bc9f-b65b3e7ba11c
/people/siegfried.szameitat/blog/2006/02/26/restarting-processchains
Siggi's weblogs for data load error and how to restart process chain
/people/siegfried.szameitat/blog/2005/07/28/data-load-errors--basic-checks
/people/siegfried.szameitat/blog/2006/02/26/restarting-processchains
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