Process Flow and Workflow

Hi experts, does a process flow cannot be used if we dont have oracle workflow?
If yes, any of you know the alternative ways to run a schedule mapping sequentially?
Currently i am running schedule from OWB (Control center manager). And i am not satisfied because the lack of Log / information regarding the job execution. Is there a way to get more detail schedule job logs???
Thank you in advance guys...

Oracle is pretty smart when it comes to those things, Im sure the table is not lock because one session is DML:ing it and one is querying it. You can get a deadlock when the sessions are trying to DML for the same row, because update/insert/delete is based on row lock, not table lock.
What you can do to test these kinds of long operation mappings is to generete the intermediate code from the map - open the map editor and click on genereate - choose intermediate from the dropdown list and click on your target table. Copy that code and run it from i.e toad, do the same thing instantly for the other map and you will found out if your sessions are locking each other.
Because the owb map is bascly configured in a way that it most of it is unnecessery when your are not running it thrue the repository, like I said. Try to run it they way it is - else create a new one by the code generated in the intermediate mapping.
Cheers

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