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.
Hope this helps,
Anil Kamsala

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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?
Thanks,
Sri.

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.
Regards,
Venkatesh

Process Chain Schedule date

Hi
I have created a process chain and i have set it to run every day night.
The selection in the infopackage must be the present date like today 2007.09.16 and tomorrow it should be 2007.09.17.
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.
Thanks
sandeep

Hi
check these links...might be helpful for you.
Re: scheduling process chain 3 specific times a day
Re: How to schedule process chain to run only during specific time.
Process chain schedule daily twice
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.
RFC FM:
Import Parameters: EVENTID like TBTCO-EVENTID (check 'Pass Value').
CALL FUNCTION 'BP_EVENT_RAISE'
EXPORTING
 eventid = EVENTID.
SE38 Program:
data: date type dats.
CALL FUNCTION 'LAST_DAY_OF_MONTHS'
EXPORTING
 day_in = sy-datum
IMPORTING
 LAST_DAY_OF_MONTH = date.
If sy-datum = date.
CALL FUNCTION 'ZBP_EVENT_RAISE'
 DESTINATION '<your BW system>'
 EXPORTING
 eventid = EVENTID .
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
Message no. RSPC065
Diagnosis
Program RSPROCESS is to be scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_DROPINDEX under user ALEREMOTE.
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
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
thanks
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,
Please check whether your BW user has enough authorization to run this job. The above post tell you how to do it.

Process chain scheduling

Hi All,
I have a Process chain. Ot was not running from 2 days then i saw in RSPC it was green in color. Then i scheduled it and it turns green.
Steps are: start->load data 1, load data2 , loaddata3->and->so on
Today i saw it ran till load data 2 then at load data 3 it failed
when i saw display variant of load data 1 in that schedule tab last changed by is aleremote but in load data 3 last changed by is username.
request came for ods in data load1 and 2 but not for load 3 and further loads. thats why i ran it manually today.
Can u tell me what is the problem ?

Hi Shweta,
Confirm and try this:
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.
after load is succesfull then trigger next process.
Or can u please tell me that log error.. let me try to resolve
Hope it might help you.
Regards
Ashwin
Edited by: ashwin kumar on Mar 17, 2008 12:20 PM

Process chain - schedule for certain days

Hello all,
How can I schedule a process chain that :
-should run 3 times per day
-between the 8th and the 12 workingday of a month
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.
I made a reports that tests the 18-th working day (for example) and some others:
REPORT Z_DAYS.
TABLES : TFACS.
DATA: GI_CURSOR TYPE CURSOR,
 GI_TABIX TYPE SY-TABIX,
 GT_TFACS TYPE TABLE OF TFACS.
DATA: TEXT(50) TYPE C,
 LEN TYPE I,
 IND TYPE I,
 POS TYPE I,
 CNT_ONE TYPE I,
 CNT_ZERO TYPE I,
 DAY_VAR TYPE I,
 IND_VAR(3) TYPE C.
DATA: EVENTID LIKE TBTCJOB-EVENTID.
DATA: EVENTPARM LIKE TBTCJOB-EVENTPARM.
FIELD-SYMBOLS: <GT_TFACS> TYPE TFACS.
DAY_VAR = SY-DATUM+6(2).
OPEN CURSOR GI_CURSOR FOR
*select data for factory calender Germany (01) and year 2009
SELECT * FROM TFACS
WHERE IDENT EQ '01' AND JAHR EQ SY-DATUM+0(4).
IF SY-SUBRC NE 0.
EXIT.
ENDIF.
MOVE 100 TO GI_TABIX.
DO.
FETCH NEXT CURSOR GI_CURSOR
 INTO TABLE GT_TFACS
 PACKAGE SIZE GI_TABIX.
IF SY-SUBRC NE 0.
 EXIT.
ENDIF.
*loop on internal table
LOOP AT GT_TFACS ASSIGNING <GT_TFACS>.
 TEXT = <GT_TFACS>-MON01.
 LEN = STRLEN( TEXT ).
 WRITE : 'len' , LEN.
 DO LEN TIMES.
 IND = SY-INDEX.
 POS = SY-TABIX.
 IND = IND - 1.
 IND_VAR = IND + 1.
 WRITE: / 'ind', IND_VAR.
 WRITE : 'pos'.
 WRITE POS.
 IF TEXT+IND(POS) = '1'.
*number of working days increases with 1
 CNT_ONE = CNT_ONE + 1.
 IF CNT_ONE EQ 8 AND ( DAY_VAR = IND_VAR ).
 WRITE : / '8th working day'.
 EXIT.
 ELSEIF CNT_ONE EQ 9 AND ( DAY_VAR = IND_VAR ).
 WRITE : / '9th working day'.
 EXIT.
 ELSEIF CNT_ONE EQ 10 AND ( DAY_VAR = IND_VAR ).
 WRITE : / '10th working day'.
 EXIT.
 ELSEIF CNT_ONE EQ 11 AND ( DAY_VAR = IND_VAR ).
 WRITE : / '11th working day'.
 EXIT.
 ELSEIF CNT_ONE EQ 17 AND ( DAY_VAR = IND_VAR ).
 WRITE : / '17th working day' COLOR 5.
 EVENTID = 'ZE_PROD'.
 EVENTPARM = 'ZEP_PROD'.
 CALL FUNCTION 'RSSM_EVENT_RAISE'
 EXPORTING
 I_EVENTID = EVENTID
 I_EVENTPARM = EVENTPARM
 EXCEPTIONS
 BAD_EVENTID = 1
 EVENTID_DOES_NOT_EXIST = 2
 EVENTID_MISSING = 3
 RAISE_FAILED = 4
 OTHERS = 5.
 IF NOT SY-SUBRC IS INITIAL.
 WRITE:/ 'EVENT DID NOT START'.
 ENDIF.
 EXIT.
 ELSEIF CNT_ONE EQ 18 AND ( DAY_VAR = IND_VAR ).
 WRITE : / '18th working day' COLOR 5.
 EVENTID = 'ZE_PROD'.
 EVENTPARM = 'ZEP_PROD'.
 CALL FUNCTION 'RSSM_EVENT_RAISE'
 EXPORTING
 I_EVENTID = EVENTID
 I_EVENTPARM = EVENTPARM
 EXCEPTIONS
 BAD_EVENTID = 1
 EVENTID_DOES_NOT_EXIST = 2
 EVENTID_MISSING = 3
 RAISE_FAILED = 4
 OTHERS = 5.
 IF NOT SY-SUBRC IS INITIAL.
 WRITE:/ 'EVENT DID NOT START'.
 ENDIF.
 EXIT.
 ENDIF.
 ELSEIF TEXT+IND(POS) = '0'.
*number of holidays days increases with 1
 CNT_ZERO = CNT_ZERO + 1.
 ENDIF.
 ENDDO.
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 WRITE: 'January :' COLOR 1, <GT_TFACS>-MON01.
ENDLOOP.
REFRESH GT_TFACS.
ENDDO.
WRITE / .
WRITE ' The number of working days is :'.
WRITE CNT_ONE COLOR 5.
WRITE / .
WRITE ' The number of holiday days is :'.
WRITE CNT_ZERO COLOR 7.
WRITE : / DAY_VAR.
CLOSE CURSOR GI_CURSOR.
When I am in the 18-th day, I raise an event. I test the year,the calender of the system and the month (January).
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

Reg. process chains

Hi
Will any one send step by step to do process chain. I am getting stuck in middle.
Please help.
Thanks.
regards
Sridhar
[email protected]

Hi Sridhar,
What exactly you mean by saying "to do process chain". If you want to know the steps to create a process chain, here are the guidelines:
In the BW Administrator Workbench:
 1. Choose the Process Chain Maintenance icon from the AWB toolbar.
The Process Chain Selection dialog box appears.
 2. Choose Create.
 3. Enter the technical name and a description of the chain, and confirm your entry.
The Add Start Process dialog box appears.
 4. Create a variant for a start process.
 a.On the Maintain Start Process screen, choose whether you want to schedule the chain directly or whether you want to start it using a metachain.
 b. If you choose to schedule the chain directly, enter the start date value for the chain under Change Selections and save your entries.
The Maintain Start Process screen appears again.
 c. Save your entries, go back to the previous screen and confirm your entries in the Add Start Process dialog box.
The Plan View of the process chain maintenance screen appears.
In the left-hand area of the screen, a navigation area is displayed. In the right-hand area of the screen, the process chain is displayed.
Note: If the process that you used to create a chain is linked to additional processes by default, the respective process variants are generated and inserted into the process chain automatically. These variants are suggestions and can be changed, replaced or removed from the chain as required. Variant maintenance is called when the change run performs automatic insert.
You can turn this system response off using Settings Default Chains.
5. Use Drag&Drop or a double-click to insert any additional relevant processes into your process chain.
Choose Process Types to select the processes. This sorts the process types according to different categories. You can also call up InfoPackages and processes for the data target from the separate InfoSources and Data Targets navigation trees.
6. When you add a process, you need to select a process variant or create a new variant. For collection processes, the system uniquely determines the variants
Various functions for editing the process are available from the context menu:
7. Hold down the left mouse button to connect the processes with events.
Note: Before you do this, select the process underneath the process type row, and position the cursor over the required process. When you select the process type row, the whole process is moved into the plan view.
From the context menu of a link, you can display the event or remove the link. To do this, select the link and right-click with the mouse.
8. If necessary, specify whether you want the event to be triggered after the previous process has been completed successfully or unsuccessfully, or whether you want the event to be triggered independently of the outcome of the process that precedes it. If the process that triggers the event has more than one option, choose the option after which the successor process is to be run
 9. Assign a display component to the process chain using Attributes -> Display Components.
 10. Maintain additional process chain attributes if necessary.
 11. Check your process chain in the Check View and make any necessary corrections.
Note:The Legend explains the meaning of the different colors used to display the processes and links.
From the context menu for a process, you can display the messages resulting from the check.
During the check, the system calculates the number of parallel processes according to the structure of the chain (subchains are recursively taken into account here). The result is compared with the number of background processes on the chosen server (or the total of all available servers if no server is specified in the attributes of the process chain). If the number of parallel processes is greater than the number of available background processes, the system highlights every level of the process chain where the number of processes is too high. The system produces a warning for these levels.
12. Save your process chain if it does not contain any errors.
Result:
You can activate and schedule your process chain. After scheduling, the chain starts in accordance with the start process selections. For example, if you scheduled the start process directly and chose Immediately as the start date value, the chain run starts immediately after scheduling. In the Log View, you can display the reports for the chain runs.

Reg:process chains could be started manually and automatically

Hi
Each process chain could be started manually and automatically
>If i want to start the process chain manually, how should i start and what are the settings shall i mark
>If i want to start the process chain automatically, is there any tool are there to start the process chain at that particular time
Plz clarify my doughts it is use full too me
Thanks & Regards
manikanta

Hello,
PC can be started both manually and automatically.
Every PC has a start variant, when you right click on the start variant and go in the edit option, select the option direct scheduling. Then in change selection, check the box immediate and keep the periodic job at the bottom unchecked.
Hit the tick, save on the other screen. And when back on the PC screen, from the menu option select the schedule option.
This will run the chain manually.
To run it automatically, follow the same procedure but instead of using immediate choose, data and time, provide date and time when you want to run, you can check periodic option if you want the chain to run daily, weekly or monthly.
Regards,
Shashank

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.
Yesterday our memory problem solved. So I scheduled Process Chains Yesterday.
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.
After ECC 6 Upgradation we are facing time delay problem.
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
Process Chain >> Attributes >> Execution User
Choose "BW Background User" which should be ALEREMOTE.
That should ideally solve your issue.
Regards
Anujit Ghosh

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

Process chain Schedule change

Hi,
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.
Thanks
naveen

Hi Naveen,
   Goto process chain and double click on start routine and specify the start timing make it periodic for evry 12 hours.
   Execute process chain, you can see as scheduled only. According to specified schedule times chain will be triggered.
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Process chain schedule at 00.15,07.15 and 14.15 hrs daily?

hi experts,
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).
but in the process chain variant we can schedule in the other period for hours, but as asked by client above hours how can achieve ?
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
3. Now change the value of time from 00:15 to 07.15(Let the date remain same).
4. Repeat step2,3 and create another job for 14.15 run also.
5. Now there should be three individual jobs (00.15, 07.15 and 14.15) if you check in Display Variant> Display Schedule Jobs.
6. Make sure the PC completes before the other run starts (to prevent lock issues).
Note: As the time gap between the PC here is 7Hrs you may follow above steps but if its 8Hrs , then directly schedule the Pc with single Job selecting the Perodic Values as 8Hrs.
Hope this helps
Regards
Sai

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