Schedule the Process Chain automatically in BW

Hi SDN Guru's,
I have an urgent requirement in BW. I want to run the Process Chain automatically in BW when the job for the deltas in R/3 are completed.
I know that in BW we can trigger the process chain by the background job only by giving the date and time or after the event and after the job.
But my requirement is the process chain should automatically be triggered in BW once the R/3 delta job is run and completed and the delta records are updated in RSA7.
Can any body please let me know how we can do this as this is the urgent requirement for me.
Please let me know how and where we need to write the code or make the settings for satisfying my requirement.
Thanks & Regards,
Vamshi Krishna.

HI Vamshi:
Take a look at note 409239.
Thanks for any points you choose to assign (points are the way of saying "thanks" in SDN)
Best Regards -
Ron Silberstein
SAP

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How to schedule the process chain

hi
guys,
how to schedule the process chain to run on thirsday and friday b/w 8pm to 11:55pm which has already been scheduled for daily loads at 9am to 11am?
(Tell me the answer in detail)
your regards
suresh

Hi Suresh,
If you want to change in the Production system, you may not have the Authorizations. If you have authorization;
1. Goto RSPC-->double click on the Process chain
2. double click on the Start variant of the process chain-->Click on the EDIT button
3. Click on the CHANGE SELECTIONS then click on the DATE/TIME Tab;
4. There pls give from which date this process chain has to run to with your requirement time,
then give the time and select the periodic job and select with your requirement.
Save and exit.
It is done!!
Hope you understood.
Regards,
Ravi Kanth

Warning Error message while scheduling the Process Chain

Dear All,
I have created the meta Chain, which contains 7 Local Chains. I have tested this chain in BI Development and Quality. It was working fine. I have moved this Meta Chain to production. While i am trying to schedule this chain, i got the warning message.
Too many parallel processes for chosen server BICI
Message no. RSPC118
Diagnosis
On the server TVSBICI you have chosen, there are only 0 batch processes available. The process chain has been designed in such as way that 3 processes must be processed parallel.
System Response
Only 0 processes can be processed parallel. Note also that to be able to start sub-chains, AT LEAST TWO free batch processes must be available. Otherwise a lock situation may arise.
For more information, see SAP Note 621400.
Procedure
Reduce the number of parallel processes in the chain or include sub- chains. This warning applies to all relevant processes.
Procedure for System Administration
Increase the number of batch processes available. You should note however that it makes no sense to set up more batch processes than there are CPUs on server BICI.
Pls help on this issue.
Thanks,
Siva.
Edited by: Siva Kumar on Jun 15, 2009 9:16 AM

I have Ignored this warning and now process Chain is working fine.
Thanks,
Siva.

How to schedule the process chain fr the report

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i have a query which i need to generate for every five hours? i know that we can generate the report thr process chain but i dont know how to build that..
my question is how to schedule the report,how to build the process chain,....
can any one plz tell me how to start this generating report for every five hours
thanks in advance..points will be alloted surely ,i need this urgently..
Suri

First of all you need to Identify the InfoObjects if you want to take up Master Data Loads, and if you want take up transaction loads then select the Data Targets to which the data has to be updated. Then plan the dataflow accordingly.
You want to create a Process Chain, Go to RSPC, and then select the create option and from the Process categories available on the left handside drag and drop the Start process, then define the Variant for the same. In the same way you need to identify the other Process Types available on the lefthand side. For Eg: Start Process>Load to ODS>Activation of ODS Data>Delete Indexes for the InfoCube>Load to InfoCube>Create Indexes>Delete Overlapping Req-->Agg. Rollup.
This is how you need to specify the dataflow, several other Process Types also included based on the requirement For Eg: Sending Mail Alerts when the Job is Success or Terminated.
Also, have a look at this links to make urself clear about the steps in creating Process Chain.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/67/13843b74f7be0fe10000000a114084/frameset.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/events/sap-teched-03/using%20process%20chains%20in%20sap%20business%20information%20warehouse
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/19683495-0501-0010-4381-b31db6ece1e9
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Archna

User wants to schedule the process chain - what is the best practice

I posted earler and got the anwser.
Create a custom ABAP program that calls the RSPC_API_CHAIN_START Function Module, with a selection for the Process Chain where your user can enter the Meta Chain name to start the process.
To make it simpler for the user to execute this, create a custom tcode for them in SE93, so that they logon to your BW environment, call up that tcode, enter the Meta Chain name and execute. With this, they wouldn't have to have access to RSPC.
I did the above and the user not able to execute it since he doesn't have access to the cube/dso to update the cube.
To overcome this I wrote another abap program and used the
SUBMIt program user ALEREMOTE
and there is a problem.I called the process chain start program using ALEREMOTE .
Now the user needs access to authorization object S_BTCH_NAM and authorization field BTCUNAME with value ALEREMOTE.
So again due to SOX the basis doesn't want to give the necessary access.
What is the best solution.
How in general if the user needs to execute the process chain how they do it.
Please let me know. Thanks for your help in advance.
Senthil

Hi Senthil
In general production scenerio, we do not run process chain manually. To execute a process chain you should have necessary authorization. As you have assigned alertmote in the start variant, any user other thatn that will not be able to trigger the same.
Instead of alertmote , use the nornal start variant to trigger the process chain and give the user the normal authorization. Whenever user wants to run the infopackage manually or via process chain they should have the auth to view the infoprovider content as well....

Error when scheduling the Process Chain

Hi Everybody,
I have created a process chain and executed in background then job in SM37 says it is canceled but when i check the logs in SM37 it gives"ERROR READING JOB LOG" at the status bar. Any suggestions
Thanks
Raju

Dear Raju,
Have you checked SM21? Maybe you have a problem with your TemSe object. If this is the case a basis guy should know how to handle it.
Greetings,
Stefan

Multiple scheduling of the process chain

Hi All,
Please help me regarding this matter. I need to schedule a process chain to run every wednesday, and also when it runs, it need to run 4 times each hour on wednesday. I can copy this instance 48 times in SM37, but I think there is a better solution out there. Thanks in advance for all your advice and opinion.

Create a new factory calender. This can be done via TCode SCAL (if you search forum you'll find plenty of post on it).
In this calender except for Wednesday mark all other days of week as holiday.
Now go to the start variant of the PC.
Give start date and time of the next Wednesday.
Select the check box periodic.
Under period values select other period and use every 4 hours or whatever period values you want.
Under restrictions select the calender ID you just created and select the radio button do not execute on sundays and hoildays.
Save settings, activate and schedule the process chain.

Authorizations setting for running the process chain

Hai
Iam planning to run the process chain for loading the data into ODS. But i dont have authorization for it.
so what are the authorizations i need to run the process chain in my system. And how can i set all those authorizations to my user-id. I have all authorization rights .
Pls let me knw
kumar

Hi,
Authorizations for Process Chains
Use
You use authorization checks in process chain maintenance to lock the process chain, and the processes of the chain, against actions by unauthorized users.
·        You control whether a user is allowed to perform specific activities.
·        You control whether a user is allowed to schedule the processes in a chain.
The authorization check for the processes in a chain runs when the system performs the check. This takes place upon scheduling or during synchronous execution. The check is performed in display mode. The check is performed for each user that schedules the chain; it is not performed for the user who executes the chain. The user who executes the chain is usually the BI background user. The BI background user automatically has the required authorizations for executing all BI process types. In attribute maintenance for the process chain, you can determine the user who is to execute the process chain.
See also: Display/Maintenance of Process Chain Attributes ® Execution User.
Features
For the administration processes that are bundled in a process chain, you require authorization for authorization object S_RS_ADMWB.
To work with process chains, you require authorization for authorization object S_RS_PC. You use this authorization object to determine whether process chains can be displayed, changed or executed, and whether logs can be deleted. You can use the name of the process chain as the basis for the restriction, or restrict authorizations to chains using the application components to which they are assigned.
Display/Maintain Process Chain Attributes
Use
You can display technical attributes, display or create documentation for a process chain, and determine the response of process chains during execution.
Features
You can display or maintain the following attributes for a process chain:
Process Chain ® Attribute ® ...
Information
Description
( Rename)
You can change the name of the process chain.
Display Components
Display components are the evaluation criterion in the process chain maintenance. Assigning the process chains to display components makes it easier to access the chain you want.
To create a new display component, choose Assign Display Components in the input help window and assign a technical name and description for the display component in the Display Grouping dialog box that appears.
Documents
You can create and display documents for a process chain.
For more information, see Documents.
Last Changed By
Displays the technical attributes of the process chain:
·        When it was last changed and who by
·        When it was last activated and who by
·        Object directory entry
Evaluation of Process Status
If you set this indicator, all the incorrect processes in this chain and in the overall status of the run are evaluated as successful; if you have scheduled a successor process upon error or always.
The indicator is relevant when using metachains: Errors in the processes of the subchains can be evaluated as unimportant for the metachain run. The subchain is evaluated as successful, despite errors in such processes of the subchain. If, in the metachain, the successor of the subchain is scheduled upon success, the metachain run continues despite errors in unimportant processes of the subchain.
Mailing and alerting are not affected by this indicator and are still triggered for incorrect processes if they have an upon error successor.
Polling Indicator
With this indicator you can control the response of the main process for distributed processes. Distributed processes, such as the load process, are characterized as having different work processes involved in specific tasks.
With the polling indicator you determine whether the main process needs to be kept until the actual process has ended.
By selecting the indicator:
-         A high level of process security is guaranteed, and
-         External scheduling tools can be provided with the status of the distributed processes.
However, the system uses more resources; and a background process is required.
Monitoring
With the indicator in the dialog box Remove Chain from Automatic Monitoring?, you can specify that a process chain be removed from the automatic monitoring using CCMS.
By default CCMS switches on the automatic process chain monitoring.
For more information about the CCMS context Process Chains, see the section BW Monitor in CCMS.
Alerting
You can send alerts using alert management when errors occur in a process chain.
For more information, see Send Alerts for Process Chains.
Background Server
You can specify here on which server or server group all of the jobs of a chain are scheduled. If you do not make an entry, the background management distributes the jobs between the available servers.
Processing Client
If you use process chains in a client-dependent application, you can determine here in which client the chain is to be used. You can only display, edit, schedule or execute the chain in this client.
If you do not maintain this attribute, you can display, edit, schedule or execute the process chain in all clients.
Process variants of type General Services that are contained in a process chain with this attribute set will only be displayed in the specified client.
This attribute is transported. You can change it by specifying an import client during import. You must create a destination to the client set here in the target system for the import post processing (transaction RSTPRFC) The chain is activated after import and scheduled, if necessary, in this client.
Execution User
In the standard setting a BI background user executes the process chain (BWREMOTE).
You can change the default setting so that you can see the user that executes the process chain and therefore the processes, in the Job Overview. You can select the current dialog user who schedules the process chain job, or specify a different user.
The setting is transported.
The BI background user has all the necessary authorizations to execute all BI process types. Other users must assign themselves these authorizations so that authorization errors do not occur during processing.
Job Priority
You use this attribute to set the job priority for all of the jobs in a process chain.
Hareesh

Scheduling a process chain running in a specific hour

hi,
Is there any other way to schedule the process chain to run in a specific time besides using different meta chains to call the main process chain to do the loads separately.
Can we do this by using one main process chain?
for example, this is performed daily (hourly load: 4am load, 9am till 9pm load).
willie

Hi,
Process Chains:
From 3.x onwords to automate loads as well as process like Openhub,ababp
programs or activations or etc., We are using this process chains.
Coming to the major advantage
Like eariler infopakge groups if any pak fails we need to trigger all the loads
manully .wher as in Pchaing just correct that particular ipak and repaeat from that
particular process .it will take care abt remaing subsequent chain .
And also we can trigger parallel loads as well in this. Its much user friendly in monitoring.
1)You can make the process chain to be trigered by an event.
You do so by having the Job that start the PC start after an Event.
Then you define your set of job's (thru SM37) and make sure these jobs fire the event that starts the PC.
There is an ABAP program you can use that fires events (FM -> BP_EVENT_RAISE).
2)In the Start process of your process chain, select Direct Scheduling and then click the Change Selections icon. This will bring you to the Start Time window where you can put in the Date/Time you want to start your process chain. At the bottom of this window, click on the Periodic job box and you will notice another icon way at the bottom called Period Values. Click this to determine what frequency the job should be rescheduled (ie. daily, weekly, etc.).
3)you can do this by right-clicking on the start process, selection "Maintain Variant", choose "Direct Scheduling". Next select "Change Selections", pick your date and time, set your period values and you're done.
You can Schedule process chain in background by right-clicking on the start process, selection "Maintain Variant", choose "Direct Scheduling". Next select "Change Selections", pick your date and time, set your period values and you're done.
Hope it helps.
*****Assign points if helpful*******
Thanks,
Amith

Scheduling of process chain with background job

Hello All,
I have scheduled the process chains through background jobs. I have copied the meta chain and created seven background jobs that is from Monday till sunday. The problem is most frequently the job gets cancelled with the message
Process CHAIN, variant PAA1_GS001 is not scheduled waiting for event RSPROCESS 44NRPDWZ7CQUJ92ATDTY6368H.
This is the variant for the next process after the start process. I tried by giving merge active versions, but one day the background job runs fine , but the next day it gets cancelled.
If anyone has faced this issue before kindly let me know.
Regards,
Karthik.

Hi,
It seems to be there may be in probelm in Varients, so create a separate Varient for each PC and then activate the PC and execute.
Thanks
Reddy

Problem faced in running the process chain

Hi All,
I am having a process chain having few warning..
But I want to schedule that process cahin but I am not able to do so, when I schedule it , it throws a message as
"chain changed, schedule in display mode not possible"..
So how can I schedule it.
Please share the information on it.
Thanks,
vinay.

Hi Vinay,
Have you transported this chain from Devlopment to Production, because sometimes the process chain change will not appear in display mode when you move any tranports, you have to go in a change mode of the particular process chain and activate it manually and try to schedule the process chain, it ll work.
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Sathish

Program to activate the process chain in 3.5 version

HI Experts,
Like we are activatie jng the transfer strcturers_TRANSTRUC_ACTIVATE_ALL.
I am having some problems ...I need the program to activate the process chain by using program in 3.5
Could any respond on this ASAP.
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KK

Hi,
RSPC_CHAIN_EXECUTE_REMOTE program runs the Process chain automatically.
If we want to change the status of the dependant chains and to run automatically we can execute RSPC_PROCESS_FINISH but we need to give the parameters like Variant name,logid,process type,Instance name .
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How to kill the process chain

hi,
I have question how to kill the process chain during running.
thank you.

Hi
If the process chain is running in background,
goto SM37
Give * in the jobname
Give the username who scheduled the process chain
Job status - check the check boxes - SCHED, relased, ready, active
click execute.
It displays all the process chains that, scheduled & running.
You can select the process chain that need to be stopped & click STOP active job or ctrl+F1.
Hope this helps!
Kindly award points for all useful answers.
If you post the BW related queries in the BI general forum, you will get more answers.
Best regards,
Thangesh

Scheduling a Process Chain

Hi All,
how to schedule the process chain to run three time daily
say at 9 am then at 12 noon and at 3 pm daily
Regards

Hi Check in the followinf urls, you can do it either using Events or program..
Triggering the Process Chains at Particular Date using Events:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/business-intelligence/s-u/triggering%20%20the%20process%20chains%20at%20particular%20date%20using%20events.pdf
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Snippets/BI-ABAP(TriggerProcessChainsoneverymonth3rdand4thday)
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Reddy

Event is not getting triggered in the process chain

Hi,
We had a process chain which was triggered by an Event, and it was running fine until few days ago. So I removed the chain from schedule and re-scheduled it again with these details:
File load: every 2 hrs
Process chain setting
Immediate tab: start immediately
After event: "event name" and "parameter name" and periodic job: ticked
I activated the chain and scheduled it. But the event is not triggered and the chain does not start. I even tried to trigger the process chain manually in sm64 but the process chain did not start.
Can someone please tell me steps to automate the event triggering and also any setting that should be taken care off in the info package and the process chain.
Thanks In advance.
Ram

Hello Ram, to start your Process Chain by an event, then you need to maintain the Start process of the process chain.
Select "Direct Scheduling".
In the Change Selections, press After Event. Put your event name and parameter (if any). Also click on Periodic job.
Press Save. Then Activate and Schedule your process chain. All your processes should turn green.
To verify, right-click on the Start process and select Displaying Scheduled Job(s).... You should see a job called BI_PROCESS_TRIGGER in a Released status. You can click on the job and look at the start conditions.
When you go to trigger the event, use the same event name and parameter (if any) as in the start condition. Your process chain will then execute. To insure, use RSPC to view your process chain and press the Logs icon (last one at the top).
Does this help?

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