Scheduled Packages Hanging (BPC ver 5.0)

Hello,
We are having a problem "scheduling" standard SSIS packages for e.g. import package. When we schedule a package, the package runs successfully for 3 or 4 days (i.e. 3 to 4 cycles) but the package hangs after that. When this happens event though the "Package Schedule Status" shows the status "Running" and the package itself is not executed ("View Package Status" does not show any activity on the package).
Has anyone encountered this issue? If so how can we solve this? (This is a significant issue for us since we cannot reliably schedule any packages)
FYI, we are still on BPC ver 5.0.
Thank you & regards
Raja

Iwould venture a guess that if you are seeing the issue in version 5.0 SP (ANY), that the issue was subsequently solved and fixed in either 5.1 SP(X) or 7.0SP(X). The best chance of determining this is to log a ticket with SAP support for clarification on timing of the issue and resolution. Otherwise, you would need to search the Release Notes from version 5.1 forward to see if and when the problem was resolved.
My immediate advice is to plan accordingly for an upgrade to the newest BPC version on either the MIcrosoft or Netweaver platform. As it relates to the issue at hand; You may want to try to truncate the log table every 2 days and see if that impacts the locking, otherwise, check for any proceses that run on the server or take it offline in the middle of you running the package. I would imagine any MS updates or backup processes will "kill" the process mid stream.
Hope this helps.

Similar Messages

When/how do the scheduled packages switch status from 'scheduled' to 'ready' in the package Scheduler Status?

Hi,
I've scheduled FX Restatement packages to run each day in two different versions (6 times a day starting at 0615) for a year or so. However when I check out the 'View Package Status' the jobs I set up in the first version doesn't run when they are supposed to. I checked out the 'Package Scheduler Status' and I found that the jobs that DIDN'T run was stuck in a status called 'scheduled' while the jobs running had status 'ready'.
So the question is how can I make sure all the jobs are running? Do I have to or can I do something about this myself? If I try to set up a package in two different versions, can the fact that I set them both to run at 0615 generate a conflict resulting in just one of them running?
Hope someone has answers to these questions, would be so great to get this out of the way. Thanks!
K

Hi Kristoffer,
remember to click on enable schedule when you schedule a package.
To know if a scheduled package is ok you can see first if present in the tblschedule of your appset and also if present in the windows task schedulerif with status "ready".
After you just have to check the view status if you found the package execution completed you're sure it's running. " version at the same time can cause issues also with different packages better to schedule with a sufficient delay to be sure that the first has ended, in your case 1 package is ok.
I would delete the 2 packages from bpc, checking also the windows scheduler to be sure that no packages are running and rebuild one from scratch setting repeat every 4 hours and checking "enable schedule".
Regards
Roberto

Running custom packages within BPC 5.1

Hi,
Current Enviroment:
BPC Ver: 5.1
SQL Server: SQL 2005
I have used earlier versions of BPC 5.1 which used SQL 2000 as a back end and was able to utlise functionailty within the EVMODIFYSCRIPT object to perform certian SQL based tasks such as creating a new bespoket table.
In trying to re-perform the same process with BPC 5.1 and SQL 2005 I am unable to run a simialr bespoke package from DataManager.   To highligh the problem I have included below the syntax that I once used for SQL 2000 (- which worked in the earlier version of BPC 5.1) and which will now not not work with BPC 5.1 and I am not sure if it is because SQL 2005 requires a different aproach for the syntax it will accept or whether it is because the EVMODIFYSCRIPT object which has now become a MODIFYSCRIPT variable and as a result has lost some of its functionailty.
The syntax (as an example) for SQL 2000 that I have used successfuly in the past would have been something like the following:
PROMPT(TEXT,%CATGVALUE%,"Enter the category for the current year",,"actual,budget")
TASK(EXCUTESQL,SQLSTATEMENT,%SQLSTRING%)
BEGINFO (%SQLSTRING%)
SELECT * INTO COPYTBLFACTWB WHERE CATEGORY IN (%CATGVALUE%)
ENDINFO
The above syntax runs fine in Visual Studio 2005 Integrated Services however it fails (with no indication of why) when run from BPC .. any thoughts on what I may be doing wrong ?
Thanks

I've never had any success directly updating a Package Variable from within the MODIFYSCRIPT value.   In DTS you could modify a GLOBAL Variable from the EvModifyScript task and the package could utilize that value. However, in SSIS, the GLOBAL Variable no longer exists and Package Variables have "replaced" them. But I do not believe the EvModifyScript Task replacement of the variable MODIFYSCRIPT has the ability to directly update a Package Variable.
However, within the MODIFYSCRIPT value, you can update properties of the tasks and connections included in a package.
In your scenario, you could use a Prompt and dynamically build the sql statement with the variable holding the user provided value. Then passed the sql statement to the property of the Execute SQL Task.
ie:
<<in the MODIFYSCRIPT -- not exact code, just off the top of my head so I might have some syntax wrong>>
PROMPT(TEXT,%USERINPUT%,"Enter value",)
BEGININFO(%SQLQUERY%)
    Insert Into tblFac2Finance
    Select * from tblFactFinance
    Where Category=%USERINPUT%
ENDINFO
TASK(Execute SQL Task, SQLSTATEMENTSOURCE,%SQLQUERY%)
But if you wish to provide the user with member selectors for the input, you could use the SELECTINPUT prompt with the appropriate dimensions.   The user selections are then recorded in a txt file within the PrivatePublications Temp directory for the user executing the package. The location of this file is stored in the BPC MODIFYSCRIPT variable %SELECTIONFILE%. I have created packages with a flat file connection that can be updated in the MODIFYSCRIPT with the selectionfile location.
CONNECTION(UserSelectionFile,CONNECTIONSTRING,%SELECTIONFILE%)
Then within the package, I add a Script task that performs file processing against the UserSelectionFile to parse the values into the appropriate package variables that can then be used throughout the package.
I would be very interested in discovering a more direct way to update a package variable from within the MODIFYSCRIPT.
Hope this helps,
Sara Lee McLindon

Scheduled Packages in Data Manager run nearly immediately

We're running SAP BPC 10 NW and EPM 10 SP16 on BW / SQL.
When I try to schedule packages to run, they are running about a minute after the time I create the schedule, not one minute after the time I have scheduled the job to run. In either case, they are not running as scheduled. Does anyone have an idea of why the package is not waiting until the time I have scheduled the package to run? The two packages I tested with are Light Optimize and Archive Data.

For clarity, you have an SSIS package in production, in the DM file folders, that you are copying over to a file location in the TEST environment. Then you are adding the package via the DM interface. The saving the view. Then trying to execute the package?
-If you edit the package via the DM interface, does everything look correct, regarding settings for the package?
-Does the package have more SSIS tasks than just standard BPC tasks? Do they need to be modified for the new servers.
- WHat does the package do? Is it supposed to run logic? B/c it may need the logic statements to be validated and saved?
Please Let us know.

*Error executing SSIS Package from BPC 5.1*

All -
I'm trying to execute a perfectly working SSIS package from BPC 5.1. When I execute the package it instantly completes executing (Failure) with nothin written to the Log file.
After doing further analysis, we have found the root cause to be "Sequence Containers" in SSIS Packages. We can execute the same package if we remove the sequence container.
When we try to edit the SSIS package via BPC, containing the Sequence Containers", we receive the following error:
[QuerytoServer] An error occurred while getting a package information. System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Sequence' to type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.TaskHost' at Osoft.Services.Application.DataMgr.PackageExecute.DTSX.GetPackageInfor()
When we try to edit SSIS packages via BPC, containing NO Sequence Containers", everything is wonderful.
Does anyone have any suggestions, besides removing all of the Sequence Containers and moving the tasks to the base SSIS package level?
I trully appreciate any help you guys can provide.

Hi Lars,
Could you be more specific the step you did?
1. It works fine in Visual Studio,
2. It is not working with Excel Front-end. Call the package from Excel.
3. It worked few days ago, ==> Do you mean it was working with #2 step?
I think this might be caused by authentication,
1. could you check your athentication you have for #1 and #2?
2. Did you introduce BPC DM to call the package? BPC DM uses impersonated ID even you use ID which has restrictive to use system resource, there will be no problem for the authentication.
3. As you see the log, it points FLOW task and OLEDB SOURCE, check your connection string in OLEDB SOURCE also.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
YH Seo

BPC Ver 10.1 Netweaver User Guide

I am having trouble finding a user guide for BPC Ver 10.1 Netweaver (Classic or Unified). I am preparing "admin" training materials and can not find answers to some basic application admin type activities like what special characters are allowed in dimension ID names. And I can not find it mentioned in the admin guide or the EPM guide. So I am in search of a user guide type of document.
The following link lists resources such as Master Guide, Administrator's Guide for "SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1, version for SAP NetWeaver"
http://help.sap.com/bopac#section7
Help appreciated.

Hi Brian,
If you look at 10.0 Netweaver, there is also no user guide there.
I think as users view BPC via the EPM client, the user guide is there.
I think from a users point of view certainly for Classic / Standard, other than the web side, there is no real changes from 10.0
Regards,
Mark

ODI Operator not showing scheduled packages

Dear guru,
Comes to a question where.. i have done the necessary steps to update my schedule package upon update agent scheduling.
Upon leaving it overnight on weekends.. It is found that operator didn't show the processes performed hence on scheduler timetable shows the particular package that is running... with its min time to complete and max time to complete..
Just wondering .. what could have gone wrong...
Regards,
terri

Prior to the above question...
Now after looking thoroughly on the ODI operator session list..
On dates .. I do not see any thing running at all like normal..
when we expand today.. we would see the packages running even on manual interfaces execution it is not showing on operator..
And after expanding the Physical Agent i do see processes on scheduled packages but.. it looks as though it is all pending..
please advice on how am i able to fix this prob to get packages running as usual...
Urgent help or advices needed..
regards,
terri

Problem running Script in a custome package in BPC

Hello Experts,
I am having an issue running a custom package in BPC 7.0 SP05. Package is to process all dimensions for an application. It runs fine in BI Studio 2008, but gives me login failed error when i run it with BPC. Here is a script i have problem with:
            Dim ExcelCon As String = _
            "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source =" _
            & ExcelPath & ";Extended Properties=Excel 8.0"
            Dim excelConnection As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection = _
            New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection(ExcelCon)
            excelConnection.Open()
            Dim OleStr As String = "Select * into [ODBC; Driver={SQL Server}; Server=" _
                & ServerName & ";Database=" & DBName & ";Trusted_Connection=True;].[" _
                & InsertedTableName & "] FROM [MEMBERS$];"
            Dim excelCommand As New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand(OleStr, excelConnection)
            excelCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
It's inserting Excel table (dimension members) into SQL Server table.
I'm am running package with BPC admin account (which is sysadmin and local admin).
Is BPC using some Anonymous credentials to execute packages if you don't pass any credentials? I'm not passing any parameters into the package.
I'd appreciate any info...
Thanks,
Akim
P.S. it's a VB.NET script.
Edited by: Akim Zubarchuk on Oct 19, 2009 9:49 PM

Hi
you have to use DM and you can pass parameters or setup global vatiables trough the Global Varialble MODIFYPKG.
Into you VB script you have to use DTS_GLOBALVARIABLE("Nameofvariable").value to be able to get value of global variable.
It is difficult to provide exactly what you have to do but I hope these two information will help you to build your custom package.
Kind Regards
Sorin Radulescu

Error invoking Package Schedule Status in BPC 5.1

Hi BPC Gurus,
We are on BPC 5.1 system and have been live since Apr 2008. We schedule all our Data Manager jobs (Import packages and other packages) every month using the Package Schedule status option under eData.
We were performing a clean-up of the older job entries on this screen by choosing the "Delete Job" option in Package Schedule Status screen.
A few of them got successfully deleted but then we got the below error.
"(RunQueryToServer)(GetScheduleList) An error occurred while getting a schedule list. The system cannot find the file specified."
We are now getting this error even if we try to bring up the Package Schedule Status screen.
Could you pls. advise if anybody has seen this issue and what was the resolution.
We are seeing this issue in our Production environment so your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Abhay Shanbhag

We had the same problem with the installation I'm working on right now.
In our case, I went into the SQL Server database for my application set and looked at the entries in tblSchedule. There were entries in there that were very strange in the "CreateTime" field. Dates like "2008-43-30 <time>".
We cleared out the records in tblSchedule and this solved the problem.
Hope this helps,
Jason

BPC 5.0: Packages Hanging

We have a Linked Server, hosting an ERP, which is used to load data into BPC 5.0(OutlookSoft 5).
I updated the remote login and password for this linked server through SQL Management Studio.
To test, I ran the packages but they hang - do not error, but just stop in the middle.
Any ideas on the cause of the hanging packages?
Thank you for your assistance in advance.
Garvi

The answer is not easy because it is very depending by how you developed your custom package.
You have to check first if you package using the linked server is working properly.
Test should be done from Enterprise Manager of SQL 2000 or SSIS if we are speaking about SQL2005.
If the package is running well without running it from Data Manager then it seems the problem can be because of time out. In that case you have to check how much time is running the packahe and after that you can setup the time out connection for a longer time.
If you will provide a little bit more information about where is hanging the package then I will be able to provide you more information.
Regards
Sorin Radulescu

Business connector scheduler gets hanged and Next run value is large number

Hi All,
I see the scheduler in business connector gets hanged and the Next run value shows huge/large number like 9223370831700598.0 sec. Please can anyone suggest what can be done.
Currently BC ver is 4.7. The problem gets resolved every time when i restart the server.

Hi,
Not aware of the reason though, I guess you must be using the simple scheduled tasks.
Try using complex reapting tasks where you specify days , minutes etc.
It should work fine.
Hope it helps. Reward if useful.
Regards,
Siddhesh S.Tawate

Build Planning Schedule form hangs

Hi,
when i build the planning schedule for all the suppliers, the 11.5.3 ver. hangs .
Have anyone faced similar problem ?What was your approach for correcting it?
FYI,
The set-up for this has no issues.All the relevent profiles are set.
Regards,
Prasan.

The reason is that the substitution variables in EAS are set with double quotes. Change the values to remove the double quotes around the values. Restart the Planning service.
Refer: Error when Selecting Variables in the Form Member Selection (Doc ID 1267931.1) in MOS.
HTH-
Jasmine.

Sometimes a package hangs, without executing...

Hi to all,
sometimes, a successful package (which I've been able to launch and execute other times) doesn't run again...it "hangs up" in a state "in execution" for so many minutes, that it's incredible...
I'm just launching 2 SSIS, each one creates a dimension (one with 20 values, the other with more than 600).
Any idea?
Thanks
Daniele

Hi Daniele,
It will be good to know what version of BPC are you running and what SQL Server are you using.
Any way like concept you are doing two tasks which can not run in parallel.
You can not have two administrative tasks running in paralel.
May be some of tasks can work but 90% of administrative tasks cannot run in paralel.
What you are saying it is that actually you are processing two dimensions of the same cube in the same time.
This will never work in paralel because of the way how it is design the SSAS.
If you are trying to process in paralele two dimensions from Management Studio you will see that you will receive errors or one pf the process will start after the first one finish.
Regards
Sorin Radulescu

Cannot Execute or Modify DM Packages in BPC 7.5 MS

Hi Experts,
We are implementing BPC 7.5 MS. The IT department has installed SAP BPC 7.5 MS on a heavily secured environment.
Configuration:
SAP BPC 7.5 MS SP04
DB server:          SQL 2008 64-bit
App server:        32-bit
Client login via local client installation (no citrix/softgrid..)
Iu2019ve tested both ApShell and our test environment configuration and Iu2019m able to:
Administration
-         Process ALL dimensions
-         Process (save) ALL Applications
-         Full optimize, index defrag, compress ALL applications
-         Process Security and add new users
-         Add a new dimension (as a test)
Interface for Excel
-         Send Data
-         Retrieve Data
-         Access the u2018Interface for the Webu2019 to modify Work Status
The only thing that doesnu2019t work is execute or modify DM packages. The systems comes up with an 'exception error' and refers to the new BPC 7.5 log table, which gives me the following error:
==============[System Exception Tracing]==============
[System Name] : DM
[Message Type] : 14
[Job Name]     : EvServerDataMgr.cEvServerDataMgr.GetInfo
[DateTime]     : 10/19/2010 3:49:21 PM
[UserId]       : DOMAIN\userid
[Exception]
DetailMsg : {Err.Number= 429 Err.Source= EvServerDataMgr Err.Description= ActiveX component can't create object(Assembly: Unknown, Object: OSoft.Services.Application.DataMgr.PackageExecute2008.DTSX)}
==============[System Exception Tracing End ]==
I have noticed that Business Intelligence/Visual studio was not installed on the Web server. Is that required, I couldn't find anything about it in the installation guide?
Or is it the user/communication between front-end and back-end server. I am able to submit data, so...

Enric,
The problem was that we only installed Business Development Studio and Integration Services on the DB-server. After we installed the components on the (front-end) Webserver and registered the DLL's on both the front-end and back-end server, the problem was solved.
See the link below for more information on registering the DLL's via Business Development Studio (we did not use regsvr32).
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bpc75/helpdata/en/07/30f30b58f145818861803b2f82ec86/content.htm
Hope this will help.
Regards,
Peter.

Scheduling Manager hangs...

Hello,
We are using Discoverer Plus 10g (10.1.2.45.46c) and migrated from an earlier version (4i) spring of 2006.
- I am trying to schedule a workbook with multiple sheets created with the new version.
- The workbook executes in about 4 minutes, when I manually execute the 5 worksheets back to back
- But when I schedule it, it hangs in the Scheduling manager but when I check directly on the Database using the following command I notice that the job is done :
SELECT job,sid FROM dba_jobs_running; (no rows are returned)
After I execute that SELECT, the Scheduling Manager is automatically updated and the status the job becomes ‘Complete’. I can then open the Scheduled Workbook normally.
It is as if the Scheduling manager does not know when the execution is complete and the SELECT I do triggers the status to be updated.
Everything works fine when I schedule a workbook with single or multiple worksheets created with the earlier version. It also works fine when I schedule a single worksheet out of a multiple worksheet Workbook created with the later version of Discoverer!!!!
Can anyone mane any sense of what is happening ?
Thank You !
Marie

Hi Marie
What database privileges do you have? This is the first place I would look. These are the ones you need:
connect
resource
analyze any
create procedure
create sequence
create session
create table
create view
execute any procedure
global query rewrite
select any table
unlimited tablespace
execute on sys.dbms_job
select on sys.v_$parameter
I hope this helps
Best wishes
Michael Armstrong-Smith
URL: http://learndiscoverer.com
Blog: http://learndiscoverer.blogspot.com

Scheduled Packages Hanging (BPC ver 5.0)

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for