Process chain scheduling options

Hi Experts ,
whats the diffrence of Direct scheduling and Start using Metachain or API .
here the scenerio i have one metachain in that i have 4 local chains .
Metachain (direct scheduling)
1
1
Local chain 1 ( Start using Metachain or API) .
1
1
local chain2 (direct scheduling)
1
1
here when i triggred the metachain its not showing any logs and its not triggreing the localchain1 .
could u please explan the diffrence of scheduling options and suggest me to run the metachain successfully.
Advance thanks
Regards
guttireddy

Hi Guttireddy,
Direct Scheduling: When you activate the process chain the start process is scheduled in the background, as defined in your selections.
Start using Meta Chain or API:
Using API :You can use the SAP NetWeaver Scheduling Framework to start the chain and to have more extensive scheduling options.
Using Meta Chain :A metachain is a process chain, for which you determine this start condition, that is fixed to another process chain. The process chain is started directly by this metachain.If you start the start process using a metachain, it is not scheduled after you have activated the related process chain. The process chain is only started when the metachain, to which it is linked, is running.
Try the below points for your issue:
1. Let the settings for your Meta Chain be 'Direct Scheduling' > Change Selections> Choose required Date/Time. You may also Check Periodic Job and set Periodic Values if required.
2. Now coming to your Local chain 1 > Schedule even this with 'Direct Scheduling' > Change Selections > Check the Immediate start option> Uncheck the Periodic Job Option > Save.
3. Follow step 2 even for your Local chain 2.
4. Now schedule your Meta Chain, it should run fine.
5. You may even set your Meta Chain to run 'Immediate', but you have to trigger it manually everytime.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Sai

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sunitha

Hi Sunitha,
Check the following Blog :
Scheduling Process Chain
Suppose we need to run a Process Chain twice a day daily.........at two different timings......X and Y.....
Open the Chain in Planning mode ( RSPC or RSPC1) >> Right click on the Start Process >> Display variant >> Change Selections >> Click on Date/Time tab ....
There in the Scheduled start field give the date when the Chain is going to run for the first time.............and Enter the time in the Time field.......X
Then click on the Periodic value tab and Click on Daily.......
Then Check and Save ..............again Check and save.......
Activate and Schedule the Chain......
Now right Click on the Start Process >> Display Scheduled Jobs >> there u will find one Release Job (BI_PROCESS_TRIGGER) >> Select the Job >> In the top JOB tab >> Click on it and select Repeat Scheduling
There Click on Date/Time tab.................maintain the date and enter time Y......Select Periodic Job Check Box >> Check and save ...................then come out...........
Then u will find that the Start Process is in red color.........it means that the Process chain is scheduled for multiple times..........i.e. it has more than one Release Job.......
Regards,
Debjani..

Stopping Process Chain schedule for just one day...

Hi,
Our source systems and BI are getting a patch upgrade during this weekend and I need to stop all the Process Chains schedule for Friday night/ Saturday morning. Is there a simple way I can stop all the Process Chains from executing just for tomorrow instead of manually removing each PC from schedule and again putting them back on schedule on Saturday?
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Hi
You can reschedule them instead of de-schedule and schedule back.
1)open your process chain in rspc1
2) goto planning mode
3) right click on start --> display schedule job
4) select the job --> in menu bar --> click on first one from left --> change
here change the dates as per your requirement and save the job.
If you have any event based chains which are going to start after time based chains gets complete, no need to de-schedule as we are not going get trigger from time based chains.
I don't think so we have any program to de-schedule all the chains at a time.
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Is there any way where it can change the date automatically instead of me changing the date in info package daily and activating the process chain daily.
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sandeep

Hi
check these links...might be helpful for you.
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regards
biplab
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Process Chains Scheduling

Hi All,
We have a requirement where we want to have data load on the last day of the month for each month.
Can anyone please explain how to accomplish this step by step through process chains scheduling??
Thanks in advance.
Points will be rewarded generously.

Hi Jayesh,
Here are the steps you can use.
1. Create an event in your BW system (SM62).
2. In your R/3 system, write a RFC enabled FM. Inside this FM, call 'BP_EVENT_RAISE'.
3. Create a program in SE38 and call the RFC FM using the destination as your BW system. In this program, you can use 'LAST_DAY_OF_MONTHS' FM to get the last day of month by passing SY-DATUM. I am writing some pseud code for you here.
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EXPORTING
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data: date type dats.
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If sy-datum = date.
CALL FUNCTION 'ZBP_EVENT_RAISE'
      DESTINATION '<your BW system>'
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This should do the needful.
Hope this helps.
Thanks and Regards
Subray Hegde

Need FM or Tables to see Process Chain scheduled(future) date and time

Hello Gurus!
         Can anybody tell me where/How i can get the Process Chain scheduled(future) date and time..?
   I mean, I want to see at what date and time is the PC scheduled for tomarrow/next month etc... Like TBTCO-SDLSTRTDT / TBTCO-SDLSTRTTM along with its Process chain name or PC's Start varient?
I will give the points for all the answers
          Bye.. Happy New Year

Hi Anil,
You can check in SM37 by giving the job name.then you can see when that particular chain is scheduled.
Goto SM37,
Give Job name = *
       User name = *
and select job status - ready,scheduled. then F8 (Execute).
Then you can see which job is schduled at what time and date.
Regards,
Lakshman.G

Process chain scheduling error( Job BI_PROCESS_DROPINDEX could not schedule

Hi,
I am scheduling the process chain but it was throwing an error.
Job BI_PROCESS_DROPINDEX could not be scheduled. Termination with returncode 8
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Diagnosis
Program RSPROCESS is to be scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_DROPINDEX under user ALEREMOTE.
System Response
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SY-SUBRC = 4:
Scheduling terminated by user
SY-SUBRC = 8:
Error when scheduling job (JOB_SUBMIT)
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Error in internal number assignment
Procedure
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Execute Function
for this i have already checked
in RSPC menu tab
Process Chain >> Attributes >> Execution User
Choose "BW Background User" which should be ALEREMOTE.
above settings i have done.
even though when i am scheduling the process chain i am getting the same error
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suman

Suman,
You are not able to schedule it b'coz it is getting scheduled from user RFCUSER whereas the background user should be ALEREMOTE.
There is an option somewhere in the Menu bar in RSPC to change the Execution user. Please change that to ALEREMOTE,
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Reg Process chain scheduling.

Hi.
Here is a situation: I have a process chain named Process chain1 . Which will run on weekly basis. Now i wanted to run this procss chain in every month 5 th working day. I will create new chain as process chain2 and i will add my Process chain1 as local process chain.
My question is :
Is it possible to use Process chain1 for individual run on weekly basis and as a local process in Process chain2 for the 5 th working day run?
But for any start variant there are only 2 options
1) Direct scheduling
2) start using meta chain
What I shd to in this situation
Thanks,
Harish

Hi Harish,
Yes it is possible without creating a new process chain.
Schedule it to rum every week. If it is already have done get the exact job name which is scheduled (you can can get this by right click on start variant and display scheduled jobs).
Copy this job and schedule it as you wanted to run monthly on 5th.
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Process Chains Schedule

Hi All,
I have scheduled my process chains at 01:00 but they do not run at all. The main transaction chain was scheduled and run once but from there on does not run at all.
I am sure I am missing some small step.
Kind Regards
James

Hi James,
From what you explained i didn't get the exact issue.But you can try out few things:
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2. Try checking that while scheduling did you choosed that daily option or weekly.
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when an error in loading process, first delete that particular request from data target manually. correct the error in data package in psa. then load it manually.
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Or can u please tell me that log error.. let me try to resolve
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Process chain - schedule for certain days

Hello all,
How can I schedule a process chain that :
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Any sugesstions?
Thank you.

Maybe I cna help others with my solution.
So...
I made the chain to run 3 times per day as Debjani advidced me in this thread.
I put 3 jobs, at the hours I wanted, the period daily, without weekends and holidays.
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REPORT Z_DAYS.
TABLES : TFACS.
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      LEN TYPE I,
      IND TYPE I,
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      CNT_ONE TYPE I,
      CNT_ZERO TYPE I,
      DAY_VAR TYPE I,
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DO.
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IF SY-SUBRC NE 0.
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              I_EVENTPARM            = EVENTPARM
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            EXPORTING
              I_EVENTID              = EVENTID
              I_EVENTPARM            = EVENTPARM
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              BAD_EVENTID            = 1
              EVENTID_DOES_NOT_EXIST = 2
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              OTHERS                 = 5.
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           WRITE:/ 'EVENT DID NOT START'.
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This report is called in the chain, as ABAP process.
Then, in my chain , I put a local chain , that starts after it receives the event 'ZE_PROD' and the parameter for it 'ZE_PROD'.
This event with parameter has to be created in SM62.
I hope this helps and thank you all for the advices.
PS: - the factory calender method seems not to be to good, because need special rights to create it and I don' t think it's possible to customize it (because the holiday calender has to be changed and I did not see how).
Edited by: EMI on Jan 27, 2009 4:21 PM

Problem in Process Chain Scheduling

Hi BW Experts,
We are running daily Process Chains in the Night Time.
Due to Memory Problem in BW Production Server we stopped all Process Chains on 20/09/2007.
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We have Timings like:
22:30 PM
23:00 PM
23:30 PM
23:50 PM
01:30 AM
06:00 AM
Yesterday we scheduled all Process Chains as per above timings.
But when iam going to schedule the 01:30 AM Timing Process Chain on 11-10-2007 , but it is taking 12-10-2007.
It is taking one extra day.
Generally it has to run today 11-10-2007. But why it is happening.
For 06:30 AM timing Process Chains also same problem.
So we noticed that after 12:00AM, it is taking one extra day.
Please give me the reply.
Thanks & Regards,
Anjali

Hi Venkat,
I scheduled it tomorrow at 01:30 AM , it is taking 13-10-2007.
If I schedule any process chian after 12:00 AM, it is taking one day extra.
This is happening since 5 months.
ECC 6 has been upgraded successfully in May month.
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Before ECC 6 Upgradation we never faced this problem.
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Process chain Schedule

Hi experts,
I created a process chain and activated.
But when i clicked on schedule the following message is
coming:
===========================================
Job BI_PROCESS_DROPINDEX could not be scheduled. Termination with returncode 8
Message no. RSPC065
Diagnosis
Program RSPROCESS is to be scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_DROPINDEX under user RFCUSER.
System Response
Scheduling terminated with return code 8. The meanings of the return codes are as follows:
SY-SUBRC = 4:
Scheduling terminated by user
SY-SUBRC = 8:
Error when scheduling job (JOB_SUBMIT)
SY-SUBRC = 12:
Error in internal number assignment
Procedure
Check the system log for more detailed information.
Execute Function
=============================================
Can anyone explain me how to solve this error and execute
the chain.Is there anymore process to schedule a chain ?
Full points will be assigned.
Regards,
V N.

Please check your Execution User for the Process Chain.
Go to Design mode of your Process Chain
From Top Menu choose
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Choose "BW Background User" which should be ALEREMOTE.
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I have process chains in which there is one info packages. I have changed the Schedule from once in a day to twice in a Day. But after that Process chain is not executing the infopackage. then I have changed the schedule in the infopackage and clicked start. After that I have changed the Infopackage to Start immediate and save the infopackage and came to process chain and again activated and scheduled but when I go to the info package it is still in the schedule mode. Previously this process chain is working fine but now it is not executing.   This contains two programs also. Please suggest me in this.
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Process chain schedule at 00.15,07.15 and 14.15 hrs daily?

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My client ask me to schedule the process chain for 3 times in a day, because client has plants in EUROPE,USA,AUSTRALIA.
The process chains must run 3 times per day e.g. 00:15, 07:15 and 14:15.
How can i schedule the process chain specified like everyday at 00.15, 07.15 and 14.15 hours (these hours based on EUROPE).
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please provide the solution..
Regards
Venuscm
Edited by: venu WAD on Dec 6, 2011 7:07 AM

Hi Venu,
Please follow the below points.
1. First schedule your PC to run daily at 00:15 ( Goto your PC> Planning view> Right Click on Display Variant>Change Selections> Date/Time> Enter date and time )
2. Goto your PC> Planning view> Right Click on Display Variant> Display Schedule Jobs> Select the job> Click on Job(Menu)> Copy
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6. Make sure the PC completes before the other run starts (to prevent lock issues).
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