Process chain is long running

We have a process chain that is long running even though there is not much data.
It is long running in Load PSA step. It is getting data from other R/3 sap system. A job is also long running in the R/3 system.
We can see data coming to BW system but not getting updated to PSA and even the job in R\3 is also not getting terminated.
There are many other process chains too running in the system and they are running fine. So i feel that this may not be due to system performance. This is happening for last one and half week.
If any one has faced similar problems or if you have any solution or checks that i can do, please reply.
Regards,

Hi sarafraz,
If there are more than one run are active and running ,then delete the other extraction job and have only one at a time in source system. Because those may be causing lock issue .
Also see system log in SM21 ,if you have any system termination message for this extractor .
Check ST22,if you have any short dump for this extractor
Also you can try to load for particular selection in Infopackage (for a month,company code or some other selection that restrict the data) and check whether it is completed or not.
Also check to RSA3 and extract there.
See SM12 -for lock entires
SM51,SM66 in source system - What is running for this extractor,which program is being read,which table etc...
so you can know the step where it got stuck or taking long time.
Thanks,
Naween

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Hi experts,
The 0co_om_opa_6 ip in the process chains takes long time to run around 5 hours in production
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-> where the indexes 1 and 4 are active
-> index 4 was not "Index does not exist in database system ORACLE"- i have assgined to " Indexes on all database systems and ran the delta load in development system, but guess there are not much data in dev it took 2-1/2 hrs to run as it was taking earlier. so didnt find much differnce in performance.
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-> OLTPSOURCE - is blank
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-> OLTPSOURCE- 0CO_OM_OPA_6
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The problem was the index 4 was not active in the database level..it was recommended by the SAP team to activate it in se14..however while doing so we face few issues se14 is a very sensitive transaction should be handled carefully ... it should be activate not created.
The OBJSELSIZE in the table BWOM_SETTINGS has to be Marked 'X' to improve the quality as well as the indexe 4 should be activate at the abap level i.e in the table COEP -> INDEXES-> INDEX 4 -> Select the u201Cindex on all database systemu201D in place of u201CNo database indexu201D, once it is activated in the table abap level you can activate the same indexes in the database level.
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Delete Index in Process Chain Takes long time after SAP BI 7.0 SP 27

After upgrading to SAP BI 7.0 SP 27 Delete index Process & Create index process in Process chain takes long time.
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HI ALL,
CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO STOP THE PROCESS CHAIN WHICH IS RUNNING DAILY AT 5.00 PM. I NEED TO STOP THE PROCESS CHAIN FOR COUPLE OF DAYS AND THEN RESTART IT AGAIN.
cAN ANYONE TELL ME THE PROCEDURE TO STOP THE ENTIRE PROCESS CHAIN RUNNING IN THE PRODUCTION.
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HARITHA

Hi,
First and foremost let me advice you to be very careful while doing this.
For Rescheduling
RSPC> chain > Goto > Planning view and
click on Execution tab > select > Remove from Schedule and then in Maintain variant of start process reschedule for the day you require it to run.
For terminating active chain
You can start from SM37, find the process WID/PID then go to SM50 or SM51 and kill it. Once its done come back to RSMO and check the request, it should be red but again manually force to red and save by clicking on the total status button in the status tab. This shuld ensure that the process is killed properly.
The next step will be to go to targets that you were loading and remove the red requests from those targets.
Note: For source system loads you may have to check if the request is running in the source system and kill if needed and pull it again.
But for BW datamart delta loads u may have reset the datamarts in case u are going to pull the delta again.
Re: Kill a Job
Re: Killing a process chain.
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JituK

How to stop a process chain when its running?

Dear Experts,
How to stop a process chain when its running? is it that a chain can be stoppend when we open an info package of that chain ?
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Raj

Hi,
Goto the main menu process chain --> choose the remove from the Schudule...
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sathis
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Infopackage in process chain taking long time to run

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and any locks.
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550
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413
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299
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299
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Yesterday this chain got completed successfully (well within stipulated time) with over 33,00,000 records transferred but sometimes it has failed to transfer even 12,00,000 records!!
Attaching a zip file, please refer the 21 to 26 Analysis screen shot.doc from the zip file
Within the zip file, attaching Normal timings of daily process chains.xls the name explains it.
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1)     The PSA data for BPM process chain for past few days
2)     The info providers for BPM process chain for past few days
3)     The ODS entries for BPM process chain for past few days
4)     The point of failure of BPM process chain for past few days
5)     The overall performance of all the process chains for past few days
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I was not able to attach the many screen shots or the info which I had gathered during my analysis. Please advice how do I attach these files
Best Regards,

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I am having following issues in the process chain daily loads
1) The PSA deletion is taking very long time on fridays only (nearly 3 hrs). Other days it gets deleted in 1 hr max.
2) Just to load 381 records via dtp from DSO to cube takes nearly 2 hrs(Delta load). No major routines are written in the transformation.
How to analyse a process in process chain which does not fail, but takes very long time to complete. Is there any tool or transaction in BW which can help us to analyse why the process chain takes so long time to complete in different days. One day it completes in 8 hrs, another day it takes 12 hrs.
None of the transactions, SM37, SM50, SLG1, LOGS etc are giving me any help to analyse this issue.
If it fails we have error logs to check and analyse, but without failing how we can analyse and fix the delay and reduce the time of loading data. Please guide me.
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Hi.......
1) This might be due to the poor performance of the system ..there wont be enoughwork processes avilabe in teh system .- What needs to be done if it does not have enough work processes available. Though I can find that lots of dialog processes were free during these jobs as well some Background processes were also free.?
Look to increase Work Process.......................u can do two things..............U can cancel some Job...........which r not progressing...........or which r not very important for the time being..........
Or if possible........u can increase number of servers..........
Look When a Job will start...............first it will run in background.............u can start in in Dialog also..........but for Dialogue after some time ..load will go to time out.................now many Child jobs will be created for a single background jobs..............they may run in Dialogue..........u can monitor them through SM66............
2) Check ST04 for lock waits and dead locks ..if the same lock persist for long then check with basis team.
What needs to be conveyed to the basis team when these locks happen?
generally these will be temporary Locks.............after some time locks will be realeased..............if they persist for a long time...........then u can contact Basis people..........Or if u can understand that which job is creating the lock.............like if u double click on the job >> click on Job details...............from there u will find the PID................copy that.............and check in ST04..........whether they matches or not..............now suppose it match.............and u know that job is not very important............then u can cancel the job.............
Check also the table space availba in St04 . the usuage should nt be more than 90%
What needs to be conveyed to the basis team if the usage is more than 90%.?
U can ask them to increase the Table space........
Check the sm37 >> delay column it should nt be high
What needs to be done if delay column is high. Actually it is high for these jobs (PSA deletion and load from DSO to Cube visa DTP (Delta load)?
If Delay is more.............it means ...........that there is no free work process...jobs r going to Release state............solution I had already given u.......
Check the PID refeclting in lock waits in sm66 wether they are progressing or nt ..
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If the Idle time is less than 20% what action needs to be taken?
U can contact the Basis people.......
Check sm21 and RFC connection with other source systems in sm59 ..
What needs to be checked in SM21 and SM59 specifically? What parameter i need to check?
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No.....in this way u can check performance for all the source system...........go to SM59............double click on the desired source system>> click on test connection......
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We have a set of objects that need to be loaded with data, however they have to be loaded only on certain dates.
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did this once a long time ago...other kind of requirement but the principle is the same.
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We are loading data thru PC in AR cube it takes data frm
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"Assigning points is the ways to say thanks on SDN".
Br
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I developed a Process chain. In developemnt for Completion of the Update rules(Start routine) its taking 60m( for around 50,000 records).
After transporting the Process chain to Production for Start routine completion (For 1,70,000 records) its taking 7hrs and sometimes its failing as the "Process is Over due" and sometimes due to "Short dump".
How to handle this.........
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Check the ST22... Any dumps
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then
I have got the problem when u have posted...but little later.Even I was about to post the issue.. Actually my issue was...
My PC is like this
1) Start Process
2) Delete index
3) Load IP
4) delete overlapping request
5) create Index
6) ABAP program
Process chain hangs at Overlapping requests process type but the status was yellow. And the previous step (3) was success. From there its not moving to next further steps.. But the Job in SM37 was canceled.
I saw Ur post and saw the note 833168 and which matches exactly our issue.
Like we run the PCs thru the TIDAL where due to some problems PC got triggered twice... I can see the two logs in the PC. (Log view) and two requests at RSMO.
Everything was recovered again thru manual steps. This is the first time we encountered... the note helped us ... We now are very cautious about the Tidal runs...
Now PC is running perfectly
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bye now
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Hi BI Experts, Good afternoon.
Daily we are running the process chains in the night time. And the first process chain starts at 22:30(master data loading).
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We informed to our BASIS team but they could not do anything.
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May be your chain was in the wait at the scheduled time, as there were no adequate processes available at the app server to take up your job.
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The scenario I need to solve is the following.
I have several files to be load to ODS from P users PC. I will do this with an info package. But after this load there are some more process that have to be run whoch are created in a process chain.
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Hello Javier Alvarado,
If you use process chains, the automatically integrated processes are ignored and have to
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you support the automatic insertion of additional, relevant standard processes with the
consideration of such automatic actions.
For example, if you have selected the processing types Only PSA and Subsequently in
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