R12 Sourcing Award Approval (PONAWAPR) Workflow Issue

Hi,
We are implementing R12.1.3 Financial and Procurement currently at client site.
We modified Sourcing Award Approval workflow to remove "Forward" button. Tested in various Instance, its working fine.
But recently we created another instance which is close to production architecture where we have database on 2 nodes with RAC architecture.
After migrating this workflow, notification on the application still shows the "Forward button" as per standard workflow definition.
When I checked from the Workflow Builder, it shows the modified workflow definition where there is no "Forward" attribute in the notification.
Below is the command used to upload the workflow:
WFLOAD apps/apps 0 Y FORCE SourcingAwardApproval_SIT_Modfd-4.wft
After migrating modified workflow definition, we bounced the DB server & Application server both but still Notification is not correct.
Please advice what could be the issue here.
Regards
Rohit

Rohit,
Have you verified the contents of the wft file?
How To Use WFLOAD To Download, Upload, Upgrade, Force Upload A Workflow To Database? (Doc ID 1569004.1)
WFLOAD Fails On Customizations (Doc ID 1015861.102)
Thanks,
Hussein

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