Process chain detailed step procedure

dear all,
i want detailed step procedure or tutorial about process chain for beginners. i need help.
with regards,
satish.

Hi,
Please search the forum before posting :
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/502b2998-1017-2d10-1c8a-a57a35d52bc8
-Vikram

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Error in process chain pushing step

Hi Experts,
We encountered an error in process chain pushing step. The error is "Process ZXXXX, variant 4UBK25S73O99DNLFQ0Q55EBTY, ended with invalid status". Data is pushing from OHD to PI/XI system. Unable to trace error and even not able to see the variant in PC.
Could any one please give us your inputs on the error, if you experienced such type of error message. Your inputs/suggestions are highly appreciable.
Best Regards
Venkat...

Hi Ram, thank you for the quick response.
Yes, at source, all requests are available for reporting.
Source is a Cube and target is OHD (DB Table). From this OHD we are pushing data to PI system.
PC flow is: Start--->DTP--->Push Interface. The push interface step got failed.
Daily, it's working fine. Unfortunately, today failed
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BR
Venkat...

Process Chain load step in yellow status

We are having a process chain with a load step.The load step is run with init with data transfer.
The load step is scheduled for the next time without changing the option to delta update.So the load step turned yellow with the background job log stating that delete the init Request ID.
The process chain is scheduled for several times but the load steps are all yellow.I initialized with data transfer and then to delta update.
All the requests in data targets are green.But all the load steps are in yellow.please let me know how to make it green.I tried to change the status of the load step to green manually using the function module rsps_process_finish,but the status is not changing.
Please help me out.Thanks in advance.

Hi,
From the Cube Manage > Environment > Automatic req processing > Chk Quality status to ok , chk this option if it is not done.
this should reslve the issue.
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Process Chain - Decision Step - 1st Day of Month

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I have a process chain decision that detemines if it is 1st of Month,
1st Line
Command -> IF
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Event - > Option 1
2nd Line
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Thank you Npathak,
The process chains should run everyday therefore I don't understand how this would affect the process chain.
This is just a decision step at the end of the Daily Meta Chain, where if it is the 1st of the Month, it will continue and process a DTP for Stock Balances. The problem I have is that for the last 3 days, it has continued to process final step eventhough it is not 1st of Month.
For info; When I check the decision logic in the variant, I can see that the date that is being used in syst-datum.
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Error in process Chain at 'AND' Step

Hi,
I have a Process chain which has different process which are activating different DSO's plus a loading data to a DSO in same level of Process chain. Now the next process is AND step, which will be executed if all the above process are successful.
Now all the activation step are sucess and also loading the DSO, but still there is a error in AND step. Error message is 'Job cancelled after system exception ERROR_MESSAGE'. And one more thing is the previous step of DSO loading data loaded successfully, but in details tab, Last step is showing the message as 'Process Chains: Errors Occured'. But the data is transferred and added in the target.
Please suggest what will be the cause for this error.
Regards,
Vishnu
Edited by: Vishnuvadhan K on May 9, 2008 9:12 AM

Hi,
you are talking about monitor details tab or process chain details tab?
'Process Chain: errors occured". you will get this msg at monitor details tab bcoz data has been loaded to ODS through process chian, even the load is successful but the chain is not yet completed successfully. so once the chain is success this msg will trun to green. try to figure about the error and rectify it.
did you repeate the AND process to execute next process in process chian.
if you didnt get repeate option you can try with RSPC_PROCESS_FINISH in SE37.

Process Chain Step by Step

Hi to all,
Please can any one tell me, how to designe Process Chain Step by Step.
Or any Document Related to that.
i shall be thankful to you for this.
Regards
Pavneet Rana

Hi Rana,
Have you searched in the SDN or Google. this is the general topic was discussed n no of times and lots of documents are there on this.
Check the below link which givs step by step
Process chain creation - step by step
/people/juergen.noe/blog/2008/01/11/process-chain-creation--step-by-step
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BI/Processchainscreationandmonitoring
Regards
KP
Edited by: prashanthk on Jan 19, 2011 5:08 PM

Process Chains - Like to see elements and affected info providers

Hi,
I am wondering if there is any possibility to get an overview of all active process chains with their process elements/steps and the affected objects within these steps/process chains (like infocubes, ODS etc.). In principle it's a process chain detailed view (like in RSPC chart) but not as a chart and not for one PC only but in a list for all PCs. So far I took a look into various tables like RSPCCHAIN (master table for process chains), RSPCVARIANT (attributes for certain process step types of a process chain), and RSPCVARIANTATTR (certain process types) but want to avoid any further effort to combine all these in Excel if there is an easier way to get that information.
Background of my query is that we have a certain set of high-priority process chains and I need to know all involved info providers (Info Cubes, ODS, PSA etc.) to give the Operations guy a heads-up whenever something is not fine with these providers. So having a query where I can input the set of PCs would be great.
Any feedback is highly appreciated.
Regards,
Oliver.
P.S.: An overview of tables where this information resides (between RSPCCHAIN, RSPCVARIANT, and RSPCVARIANTATTR) would also be helpful.
Edited by: Oliver Baer on Feb 25, 2009 9:33 AM

Thanks for your replies. Transactions RCPCM and RZ20 are pretty helpful for monitoring purposes.
Anyway, for my described purpose I have designed a query with the QuickViewer (SQVI) joining tables RSPCCHAIN (Process Chains), RSPCCHAINT (PC description), and RSPCVARIANT (attributes for the steps within a PC). When I filter for field RSPCVARIANT-FNAM = "DTA-CUBE" OR "DTA-ODSO" I get all Cubes and ODS for a given process chain (RSPCVARIANT-LOW). Only drawback so far is that I don't get the explosion of meta chains and have to select each of the included chains separately but that's feasible as we don't have many nested chains.
Regards,
Oliver.
Edited by: Oliver B. on Feb 27, 2009 8:53 AM

Process chain for a full load failed

Hi,
I have a process chain where load data from an InfoCube to a DSO with the following steps:
Begin
Load data: Execute an Infopackage with full load.
Update from PSA
Activate Data: Activate data of DSO.
When I execute the process chain, the step of execute InfoPackage succes, but the step of Update from PSA failed. If I saw the errors, I can see that when the infopackage finished need to Activate the data of DSO, and the status of the request is yellow and to Update from PSA need the QM status was green. What can I do? The data transfer correctly to the DSO but not is active.
Thank you very much.
PD: May be, some steps and options are not exactly like I wrote them but I'm working in Spanish and the meaning is the same

Hi....
Look if Update from PSA has failed......then go the details tab in the IP monitor.........expand the failed data packet and see the error message........there may be several reasons .......try to solve that issue............ then delete the request from the target without making the QM status red.......the reconstruct the request................
Actually I am not getting you clearly....I think your process chain is fine......Are you trying to say your ODS activation also failed...........but how ODS activation will start..........the load itself failed.........Is the link is on success or failure....
Regards,
Debjani....
Edited by: Debjani Mukherjee on Oct 16, 2008 2:02 PM

How can i understand the Process Chain management in real time!!!

Hi,
now i am learning BW concepts. now i would like to know the real time scenarios regarding Process chains. can any body help me in this matter?.
thanks,
stikanth.ch

Hi,
A process chain is a defined sequence of interdependent processes required to perform acomplex task in an SAPBW environment. Data maintenance tasks in SAPBW are notrestricted to uploading data. Aggregate rollups, index maintenance, master data and ODS activation, and a variety of other jobs are required to update data, guarantee best-possible performance, and maintain data integrity. Typical SAPBW implementa-tions have complex interdependent networks of jobs in place that run every night, week,or month.Previous releases of SAPBW did not provide an integrated solution for scheduling and monitoring those kinds of job networks. This has changed with the introduction of process chains in release 3.0. Process chains allow you to define complex job networks consisting of standard SAPBW jobs, as well as custom jobs; they support visualizing the job network and centrally controlling and monitoring the processes.
(from "Mastering the SAP BIW")
New Features in BI 2004s Process Chains
/people/mallikarjuna.reddy7/blog/2007/02/08/new-features-in-bi-2004s-process-chains
Designing
/people/vishvesh.bahirat/blog/2006/11/29/bw-process-chain-design
Process chain creation in 2004s - step by step
/people/juergen.noe/blog/2008/01/11/process-chain-creation--step-by-step
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
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/87/13843b74f7be0fe10000000a114084/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/67/13843b74f7be0fe10000000a114084/content.htm
Process Chain Errors
/people/mona.kapur/blog/2008/01/14/process-chain-errors
Common Process chain errors
process chain issues or errors
Try Searching in SDN for this Topic and you will find much detailed info as this is discussed very frequently.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
JituK

Process Chains Variants

Hi,
I have a number of Process Chains running in my company. Is there a way to know the technical variant name and technical job name for these Process Chains.
That way when I go to SM37 and check, I can make out the jobs and variants related to these process chains that are running.
Please let me know. Any help is deeply appreciated .
Thanks

Hello Arvind
Here is answer for your queries...
The table RSPCLOGCHAIN would give you the information regarding which chains are running/completed/failed etc.
The table RSPCPROCESSLOG would give you, which process step in the process chain is actually executing.
Once you know the Chain Name, for which you want to get the status, use the following function modules
RSPC_API_CHAIN_GET_STATUS
Gives you if a chain is running/completed/failed.
RSPC_API_CHAIN_GET_LOG
Gives you a detailed log of the process chain(Each steps)
The tables mentioned above would give you the following information
R Ended with errors
G Successfully completed
F Completed
A Active
X Canceled
P Planned
S Skipped at restart
Q Released
Y Ready
Undefined
J Framework Error When Ending (e.g. Subsequent Job Missing)
Thanks
Tripple k

Access Process Chain Runtime Information

Hi, I'd like to add an ABAP program to the end of a process chain. I'd like the ABAP program to be able to tell what Process Chain is currently being run and what Log ID is currently open or being written to. Any Ideas how to do this?
Thanks!
Nevermind
I think this would be where a custom process type would be appropriate..
Thanks!

Hi Kenneth,
The table RSPCLOGCHAIN would give you the information regarding which chains are running/completed/failed etc.
The table RSPCPROCESSLOG would give you, which process step in the process chain is actually executing.
Once you know the Chain Name, for which you want to get the status, use the following function modules
RSPC_API_CHAIN_GET_STATUS
Gives you if a chain is running/completed/failed.
RSPC_API_CHAIN_GET_LOG
Gives you a detailed log of the process chain(Each steps)
The tables mentioned above would give you the following information
R     Ended with errors
G     Successfully completed
F     Completed
A     Active
X     Canceled
P     Planned
S     Skipped at restart
Q     Released
Y     Ready
     Undefined
J     Framework Error When Ending (e.g. Subsequent Job Missing)
Regards,
Praveen.

Process chain controls

can any one tell me please, which tables holds the process chain details and is there any indicator in the table which explains 'whether the process chain is scheduled or removed from the schedule'.

hi priya...
The main program running all the steps of your process chain is RSPROCESS.
After a step is run, it calls FM RSPC_PROCESS_FINISH, which updates RSPCPROCESSLOG. It should update the processlog table immediately (or almost). It may be delayed in case locking is taking some time (due to concurrent processes).
I am not sure if there is a collector job that updates this table, likely not.
pls check the following Tables:
RSPCLOGCHAIN
RSPCPROCESSLOG
RSREQDONE,
i think this will help you out....
further queries..use this link...
http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-bw/process-chain-consolidated-log-overview-834561#
regards...

Reg delta in process chains

Hi,
I'm doing a flat file extraction. The data flow is from Flat file to ODS and then to cube. I need to create a process chain to automate the process.
As per my understanding, the load from a flat file to the ODS is always Full update. Am I right?
The first load we are planning to do a Full upload manually, after which we plan to automate the process using process chains.
Please provide me with inputs on the steps to create a delta from the ODS to the cube.
Thanks.
Darius.

Hi,
Welcome to SDN.
You can autmate the process by having the flat file in the appl server. Flat file data source supports delta as well which is also called Pseudo delta.
If you wish to load your flat file in full update you can still load deltas to cube from ODS.
For this, run a inititliazation w/o data transfer from ODS to Cube and then create a delta IP from ODS to cube.
While creating a process chain, follow this procedure
Start> Load info package ( flat file)> Activate ODS--> Delta IP to Infocube.
hope this helps
regards
srini

Error while Activating a process chain

Hi,
I have just modified the existing process chain with the new info package for loading into ODS and then delta update into the Info Cube.
when i am clicking on the option schedule and activate.
Its giving error as :
"InfoPackage ZPAK_49RJW545FSO2MB3NF1MIZ9NJ9 is
generated; NOT able to be used as loading variant"
This is a IP, which is used for delta update from ODS to cube.
I have checked the IP, its fine like i can do the delta through this pacakge manually.
Please help, points will be rewarded....

Dear himanshu arora ,
Go and check whether the Info Package exist ,
You can check in Rsa1 and give IP name and find it.
If your IP is not there please create it,
If tehre please check the all parameter associated with it.
Also go through these
Process Chain Errors
/people/mona.kapur/blog/2008/01/14/process-chain-errors
Process chain creation - step by step
/people/juergen.noe/blog/2008/01/11/process-chain-creation--step-by-step
Data Load errors and Process chains
/people/siegfried.szameitat/blog/2005/07/28/data-load-errors--basic-checks
/people/siegfried.szameitat/blog/2006/02/26/restarting-processchains
/people/siegfried.szameitat/blog/2006/02/26/restarting-processchains
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/3507aa90-0201-0010-6891-d7df8c4722f7
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/8f/c08b3baaa59649e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
ope 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
Hope it helps
Regards
Bala

Master data Process chain running long time

Dear SDN Team,
PC Process Chain: General Master Data - time running is about 4.5 hours . how we can improve running time.
There are 15-25 info objects are loading from this process chain.
any steps to improve the performace
thanks and kind regards,
Lakshman Kumar G

Hi,
Go to the function module RSD_IOBJ_GET to find the object name of the dimension. Go to SE37 & proceed as follows.
I_IOBJNM = 'Info Object Name'
I_OBJVERS = 'A'
I_BYPASS_BUFFER = 'X'
and then Execute the FM.
Double click on the "'E_S_VIOBJ'" and find the number in the field 'u201ENUMBRANR‟'
and add BIM to the number taken from NUMBRANR.
Goto SNRO T-Code and enter BIM+the number and edit.
From Edit--> Set up Buffering --> Main memory, select the buffering check box and enter approx 500.
This needs to be done for all the master and your dataload performance would improve.
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