Process flow failed in Workflow Monitor

I have OBIEE 11g & i have a workflow that pick up data from my live environment on a daily basis.
Since i have added a new table to the workflow, my workflow keeps failing haphazardly.
Any help where i may look for any additional information?

Try this:
DAC 10.1.3.4.1 Release Notes at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12513_01/doc/bic.101/e12655.pdf
3.21 DAC Task Failing On Non-English Operating System
This issue applies to DAC 10.1.3.4.1 and Informatica PowerCenter 8.6.1, HotFix3
DAC Server uses pmcmd to initiate the workflows on Informatica Server. In the
English-based operating systems, DAC issues the commands in the non-blocking
mode (asynchronously), and polls Informatica for the status of the workflow. The
output of the pmcmd getWorkFlowDetails is spooled to the DAC\log directory, and
then gets parsed to determine whether the workflow is still running, completed
successfully, or failed.
However, for non-English based operating systems DAC issues commands in the
waiting mode (synchronously). This means that when the process completes the exit
code tells DAC whether the workflow succeeded or not.
Workaround
The commands used by DAC to communicate with Informatica are externalized in a
file called infa_commands.xml.
The DAC 10.13.4.1 command template does not have a place holder for specifying the
wait mode. Without this wait mode configuration, on non-English OS based
installation, this results in DAC proceeding with the execution even before the
workflow completes executing. This might result in errors, such as Informatica's bulk
loader failing because of index presence or fact tables getting loaded without foreign
key references.
To fix the problem,...etc

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