Process chain stops - previous processes are green

Hi All,
We have a process chain that loads our master data each night. It chain is mostly made up of infopackages (mostly full loads) and the change run for those objects. We recently upgraded from 3.5 to BI7, SP16.
Since the upgrade, this chain, and a few others just seem to stop. They will start, and successfully complete some of the processes in the chain (all green), but then will not move on to the next process. The next process will not be yellow, it just won't start. The overall status of the chain is yellow.
I am 100 percent sure there are no other chains running during this time frame. This chain has been running for over 4 years in production, and we have never encountered this issue.
Last night, I removed the chain from the schedule, and then rescheduled. I'm not sure if that is going to prevent us from having this issue. I have also set the priority to high.
Should this prevent us from encountering this issue again? I have searched OSS and found some related notes, but we are on a higher support pack than what is in the notes, so they are already applied.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Charla

The first thing that I'd recommend is to look at the Start Process Variants for the Process/Local Chains that are not starting. Specifically, I would check to see if the scheduling in those Start Process Variants are set to Direct Scheduling with Immediate Start or set to Start Using Meta Chain or API. It is possible that the conversion from BW 3.x to BW 7.x change the parameters of the scheduling withing the Start Process Variants, even though they were not physically changed and transported.
My recollection is, when we upgraded Support Package Stacks, we had some Local Chains just change on their own where the Immediate Start checkbox mysteriously become unchecked.

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