Process Chain Help - Delete Overlapping requests

Dear Experts,
I have a requitement where I want to delete the ' previous days' request from the cube. This has to be from the data coming from only one DSO.
I can use the Delete overlapping request process type but I want to know how.
And again, this has to be only for the current month.I want to delete the overlapping requests of current month i.e now since I am in April I want to delete only the April requests. When I am in month May I dont want to delete april request anymore.
In other words I want to delete the april request until April 30th. On May 1st I dont want to delete the april 30th request. On may 1st it shouldn't delete anything. On May 2nd it should delete the May 1st request.
Can anyone help me with this.
Thanks,
KK

Hi KK,
If I have understood you correctly, you mean to say your cube is getting loaded from various Datasources and you want to delete the requests only for a particular Datasource and not for others.
Please correct me if i am wrong.
If I am right ! Then on the window "Delete Request from Infocube after update" you can "Delete Existing Requests - > Is current month" and on the bottom of that screen you can see a checkbox for Request Selection Through Routine. Check this and you can simply write a routine to do the deletion for only requests loaded from a particular datasource.
Hope it helps.
Regards
Hemant Khemani

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Hi experts,
what is process type like DELETE OVERLAP REQUEST. how to use it i mean after load data into target or before loading data.
for good answer points will assign.

Hi,
Whenever you load a data(eg full load). you can delete the previous request and you can load the new data. That's a called deleting overlapping request.
folllow these links.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/f8/e5603801be792de10000009b38f842/frameset.htm
process chain - delete request
deleting overlapping requests via a process chain
Delete overlapping requests from ODS
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Reasons for "Delete Overlapping Request"

Hi everyone,
A simple question for you gurus out there. What is the reason for having a process in the process chains to "Delete Overlapping Requests". I am not sure what it really does. Can someone please explain in simple terms the functionality of Delete Overlapping Requests and it's need. Please use an example if possible.
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Edited by: Pravender on Aug 6, 2010 10:54 AM

Generally we do this Delete Overlapping Requests for cubes because you have a requirement to do daily full loads(assume incremental data) to Cube from the same DS if you don't delete the previous load .. In cube values gets double which is wrong data.. to avoid duplicates we use this Delete Overlapping Requests in PC .. if you don''t use this process in PC .. everyday manual action will be required to delete previous (yesterdays)request in cube.
Ex.
Req1 15000 records to cube -day1
Req2 15600 records to cube -day2
Req3 15600 records to cube -day3
in cube you will have 46000 records and keyfigures values gets tripple
if you use "Delete Overlapping Request" in PC
always deletes the previous request from the same DS

Delete Overlapping requests not paying attention to filters

Hi Experts,
I have followed all the steps suggested by Chetan in the next thread to cnfigured deletion of overlapping requests.
Process Chain Delete a previous request with overlapping values
In my case I need to delete requests when the data is from the same country and the same day, so I added these fields to the filters in the DTP (I didn't put any value or variable, just added the filters). However the process chain is deleting all requests coming for that DTP and is not paying attention to my filter. What could it be?
Points will be awarded,
Regards,
Raimundo Alvarez

Hi Amruta,
Good to hear that your Overlapping Request Deletion process i working fine now
1) The difference between More Comprehensive & Overlapping (What is the difference between same or more comprehensive and Overlapping?)
If overlapping is selected then:
existing requests are also deleted from the InfoCube if the selection criteria of the new request partially or wholly overlap the selection criteria of the request to be deleted.
If More Comprehensive is selected then:
requests are only deleted from the InfoCube if the selection conditions of the new request are the same as or more comprehensive than the selection conditions of the request to be deleted.
Also do check the below link, It will be very useful
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e0431c48-5ba4-2c10-eab6-fc91a5fc2719?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true
2) The index creation process should be kept after the overlapping request deletion because if it is placed after the overlapping request deletion then all the overlappings will be removed and then the create index process will take less time to create index for only required request else more time will be taken to create indexes.
In case if the create index step is included before the Overlapping Request deletion then the performance will decrease instead of increasing..
Instead you have option of including BIA indexes in case if the reporting performance needs to be improved.
Please change the status of question to answered in case if all answers are received...
Thanks
Pawan

"Delete Overlapping Requests from InfoCube" in a Process Chain

Dear all,
I encountered a problem when I building the process chain in BW 3.0.
In a process chain, I schedule daily an InfoPackage to load data to an InfoCube and then delete the previously loaded data by the same InfoPacckage from the InfoCube.
For example, I have 2 InfoPacakge, A and B, and schedule to load data to InfoCube C. In the process chain, I scheduled daily the following tasks in sequence:
- Delete index in InfoCube C
- Load data through InfoPackage A to InfoCube C
- Delete duplicated request previously loaded through InfoPackage A in InfoCube C
- Load data through InfoPackage B to InfoCube C
- Delete duplicated request previously loaded through InfoPackage B in InfoCube C
- Create index in InfoCube C
However, when I activate the process chain, a warning message is prompted: No type "Delete Overlapping Requests from InfoCube" process allowed infront of process "Execute InfoPackage" variable ZPAK_4GMFI
Would anyone tell me why such warning message is prompted?
Many thanks!
Best regards,
Marcus

Hi all,
Re Ranjan:
I previously config the process chain like that:
(1)   Delete index in InfoCube C
(2)   Load data through InfoPackage A to InfoCube C
(3a) Delete duplicated request previously loaded through InfoPackage A in InfoCube C
(3b) Load data through InfoPackage B to InfoCube C
(4)   Delete duplicated request previously loaded through InfoPackage B in InfoCube C
(5)   Create index in InfoCube C
where (3a) and (3b) is executed simultaneously.
However, (3b) often reports error. I guess it may be due to the parallel run of (3a) and (3b). So that's why I set the process chain to be executed in serial.
Re Jacob:
I found that the process chain can be run even a warning message is prompted when activating the process chain!.
Thanks you all for your kind support!!
Best regards,
Marcus

Process type "Delete overlapping request in cube " in process chain

Hi
can somebody suggest me where i need to place the process type "Delete overlapping request" for an infocube.
Regards,

Hi,
When you use the corresponding process in the process
chain maintenance screens to specify the conditions for
automatic deletion, these conditions are applied to all
the InfoCubes for the selected InfoPackages
Overlapping: If you set this indicator, existing requests are also
delete from the InfoCube if the selection criteria of the new request partially or wholly overlap the selection criteria of the request to be deleted
Same or Comprehensive: If you set this indicator,
requests are only deleted from the InfoCube if
the selection conditions of the new request are
the same as or more comprehensive than the selection
conditions of the request to be deleted.
Thanks
Bhagesh

Process Chain - Unable to delete overlapping request

Hi Gurus
I'm in the mid of creating process chain to load transaction data in which I need to delete the previous load that loaded in using the same DTP previously
In the process chain , i have included a process "Delete Overlapping Request from Infocube" . Once i'm in the screen of maintain variant for this process, i selected DTP as the object type but unable to find the DTP that i have created under the object name.
Can someone point out what is missing
Thank you

Hi,
Looks like you need to give the the techincal name of the DTP. if you are un able to find the technical name of the DTP you can find that in the transport organizer.
just drag and drop the infoprovider ( with dataflow before) you will ge the DTP as required.
note the technical name of the DTP .
include the technical name in the process and activate the process.
Santosh

Process Type - Delete overlapping requests from an Info Cube

I have read many threads on this topic, still have some questions. To give you background, I will be doing delta load (delta process chain). But before delta, I want to do setup initialization (init process chain). I want to use this process type in my init process chain to delete all data in my cube loaded from a specific ods. I cannot use delete all contents process type because many odss feed the same cube.
1.     Do you put this process type after Load Data or before Load Data. I have seen both cases in SDN forums.
2.     Variant of this process type is an info package. Does this info package have to be same as in load data step or it can be different.
3.     I want to delete all data in cube which was loaded from my ods. Term overlapping is confusing to me. Will this process type delete all data or not.
Tanks in advance.

Yes, you can do that. Goto RSPC - under process types Load Process and Post Processing, you will see DELETE OVERLAP REQUESTS FROM INFOCUBE option is there.
Select the proper check boxes like same sourcesystem, same datasource etc...
If it is one time deletion, why not do that manually?
Also check: How to delete most recent request in a Cube by using process chain
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Process Maintenance: Delete Overlapping Requests from InfoCube

Hi Experts,
How can I open Process Maintenance: Delete Overlapping Requests from InfoCube Screen? What's T-code? Is that in Process Chain? Please tell me that....
Thanks in advance,

Hi
'Delete overlapping request' is an option(its a process type) in the process chains..
RSPC>Process types>Load Process and post process folder--->Delete overlapping request from the infocube..
here you can have more options like 'source systems are same',and infosources are same etc...
How to delete most recent request in a Cube by using process chain
Hope it helps
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Edited by: Teja badugu on Apr 28, 2008 11:35 AM

Duplicate records: Process : Delete Overlapping Requests from InfoCube

Hi Experts,
We are loading data in standard costing cube with standard available option Full upload. In our process chain we have included process type "Delete Overlapping Requests from InfoCube". In our scenario we always load yesterday and today's data. In this case after loading yesterday's data, we need to check and delete the overlapping requests and then upload todays data.
Many a times this deletion process is failing due to message "Couldn't lock cube" because it is already locked by user "ALEREMOTE". This cause system to duplicate the records in cube.
How we can avoid this?
Alok

I tried running again and it again failed. Checked in SM12 and found this entry
800 ALEREMOTE 08/14/2007 E RSENQ_PROT_ENQ CREA_INDX ZCCA_C11 DATATARGET CREA_INDX ###################################### 0 1
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Proc Chain - Delete Overlapping Requests fails with aggregates

BW Forum,
Our weekly/daily load process chain loads several full (not delta) transaction infopackages. Those infopackages are intended to replace prior full loads and are then rolled up into aggregates on the cubes.
The problem is the process chains fail to delete the overlapping requests. I manually have to remove the aggregates, remove the infopackages, then rebuild the aggregates. It seems that the delete overlapping request fails due to the aggregates or a missing index on the aggregates, but I'm not certain. The lengthy job log contains many references to the aggregate prior to it failing with the below messages.
11/06/2004 13:47:53 SQL-END: 11/06/2004 13:47:53 00:00:00                                                 DBMAN        99
11/06/2004 13:47:53     SQL-ERROR: 1,418 ORA-01418: specified index does not exist                        DBMAN        99
11/06/2004 13:47:59 ABAP/4 processor: RAISE_EXCEPTION                                                       00        671
11/06/2004 13:47:59 Job cancelled                                                                           00        518
The raise_exception is a short dump with Exception condition "OBJECT_NOT_FOUND" raised.
The termination occurred in the ABAP program "SAPLRRBA " in
"RRBA_NUMBER_GET_BW".
The main program was "RSPROCESS ".
I've looked for OSS notes. I've tried to find a process to delete aggregates prior to loading/deletion of overlapping requests. In the end, I've had to manually intervene each time we execute the process chain, so I've got to resolve the issue.
Do others have this problem? Are the aggregates supposed to be deleted prior to loading full packages which will require deletion of overlapping requests? I presume not since there doesn't seem to be a process for this. Am I missing something?
We're using BW 3.3 SP 15 on Oracle 9.2.0.3.
Thanks for your time and consideration!
Doug Maltby

Are the aggregates compressed after the rollup? If you compress the aggregate completely, the Request you are trying to delete is no longer identifiable once it is in the compressed E fact table (since it throws away the Request ID).
So you need to change the aggregate so that it the most recent Requests remain in the uncompressed the F fact table. Then the Request deletion should work.
I thought what was supposed to happen if the aggregate was fully compressed and then you wanted to delete a Request, the system would recognize that the Request was unavailable due to compression and that it would automatically refill the aggregate - but I'm not sure where I read that. Maybe it was a Note, maybe that doesn't happen in a Process Chain, just not sure.
The better solution when you regularly backout a Request is just not the fully compress the aggregate, letting it follow the compression of the base cube, which I'm assuming you have set to compress Requests older than XX days.

Data Transfer Process and Delete Overlapping Requests

Hi All,
We are on BW 7.0 (Netweaver 2004s). We are using the new data transfer processing and transformation. We want to use the ability to delete overlapping requests from a cube in a process chain. So lets say we have a full load from an R/3 system with fiscal year 2007 in the selection using an infopackage. It gets loaded to the PSA. From there we execute the data transfer process and load it to the cube. We then execute the delete overlapping requests functionality. My question is, will the DTP know that the infopackage selection was 2007 so it will only delete requests with selections of 2007 and not 2006 from the cube? Basically, is the DTP aware of the selections that were made in the infopackage?
Thanks,
Scott

Hi Everyone,
Figure it out...on a data transfer process you can filter the selection criteria - go to the extraction tab of a DTP and click on the filter icon. Enter your seleciton conditions to pull from the PSA....these seleciton conditions will be used to delete the overlapping requests from the cube.
Thanks

Delete Overlapping Request

Hi All,
I am trying to use the process type Delete Overlapping Requests from cube in Process chain after loading the data from the Infopack full load and DTP Delta . With the infopackage selection in process type the message after execution is no overlapping request found.
Deletion selection I used is Full or Init loads, Same Datasource. and Selection are same or more comprehensive.
And in the infopackage I dont have any selections.
Please help me to solve this error.
Regards
PV

C i'll explain our scenario..
there was data loaded from 2 data sources to one cube thru 2 dtp's from 2 DS's in process chain...
Soon after the 2 DTP steps, delete overlapping request step is defined from both the ends.in chain...in whcih variant is
object type: the same DTP and its name which loads from PSA to cube.
radio button selected as: edit all infocubes with following delete selections.
selections: delete existing request under which Only delete request from the same DTP.
same or cmprehensive.
the other variant is defined as the same but with another DTP name in object type..
the Output of the cube will be only latest(current day) requests..
rgds,

Delete overlapping requests from cube not working in processchain.

In a process chain, 'deletion of overlapping requests from the cube ' step is used.
Before this step a DTP step runs with a full update to load the cube. This process chain is scheduled every day.
Issue is, the process chain failed at the DTP step and after correcting and repeating, the step got executed.
However, the next step after the DTP,'delete overlapping requests from the cube'
gets executed but without deleting the previous day's request.
In the step details a message that 'No request for deletion were found' can be seen.
Then next day when the DTPstep is executed without any problem the 'delete overlapping requests from cube' step is successful
and the previous requests from cube are deleted.
the deletion selections in the step ' delete overlapping request from infocube' is
Delete existing requests
Conditions:
only delete requests from same DTP
Selections
Same or more comprehensive
Because of this issue on a particular day because of the presence of 2 days requests the data is getting aggregated and shown as double in the reports.
Please help.

Hi Archana,
When you delete the bad request from target and before repeating your DTP in PC, make sure the bad request deleted from table RSBKREQUEST also.
If you find the same request in table, first delete the request from table and repeat the DTP in PC.
Now Delete overlapping step should work.
As this is not the permanent solution, please raise an OSS for SAP
Regards,
Venkatesh

Delete overlapping requests identification

Hi guys,
In my Process chain, after a daily full load delete overlapping requests (as part of pc) is setup. How do I identify if something was deleted. The Data Target is a Infocube.

zsl05,
There are two ways you can do the delete overlapping request.
1. In the info package, under the Data Targets tab, the sixth colum if you clcik that push button against the info provider, you will see a pop up saying ''Deleting request from infocube and you can set different options here like simillar info source, data source etc' also you can set 'Do Not delete Requests'. If manual update was done, unless you have selected 'Delete Existing Requests' and condition it cannot have deleted. IT IS ONLY FOR MANUAL LOADS.
2. When you execute thru process chain even if you use the same info package with all this options it won't delete unless you attached the process type 'Delete Overlapping Request' and the info package technical name. If you have not done these setup , you can be sure the data is not deleted, worse yet if you have rolled up as part of your process chain with out this it would have rolled up, you have to fix it by selective deleteion, and more work.
3. If you have done all correctly, the request would have gone, and if it is the only request you would see only one active request with Green under requests all the deleted identical request will be under 'Reconstruction' Tab.
I hope you have done everything right and just need to be sure of it.
Hope this helps, award points if useful.
Goodluck,
Alex (Arthur Samson)

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