Selective run in process flow

Hi all,
Can i run the process flow selectively? For example i have 10 activities in a process flow. I want to run only 3 of them when the process flow execute. is it possible to do? if possible then how can i do this? plzz help.
Thanks & Regards,
Sumanta

RE: have one doubt similar to this.
I defined the processflow. It has lets say 10 activities.
It ended up with error due to some error at 3rd activity. I would like to continue from 3rd activity withou doing the same process with the first 2 activities.
Can we do this?
Yes, you just need a way for a current run to be able to check to see if the previous run completed as part of the code mentioned above to test for a "need to run this time" condition.
How to do that? Well, you could log to your own tables in standardized pre- and post-mapping procedures so you could check your own tables to see what ran successfully last time and not run them this time if the whole process flow did not complete.
Or, you could write code to mine the Runtime Repository views such as all_rt_audit_executions, all_rt_audit_map_runs, etc. to do the same thing.
The advantage over using your own tables is that you can engineer simplicity of logic, and also the runtime repository won't give you what you want if someone set the audit level to "none" for a given run.
I would also recommend including a variable in the process flow that is referenced by your conditional code which allows you to force a total rerun in cases where you want to do a full rebuild regardless of how the last run went.
That is how I do it, anyway. My process flows will restart automatically at point of failure on a subsequent run without any need for operator intervention besides calling to start it.
Mike

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On the question of process flows and resuming the following article gives some ideas, it has to be designed in the process flow basically;
http://www.rittmanmead.com/2008/05/resuming-your-etl-process-in-owb/
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I have created two different process flows and configured them with one scheduler is it a gud idea to schedule to process flows using a single scheduler job.

You can always utilize Oracle resource for parallel processing.
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Thanks David for your reply.
But your suggestion did not work. I am still getting the same error.
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RPE-01038: Failed to evaluate expression declare "$LOOP_DETECT$" NUMBER :
ORA-06550: line 1, column 651:
PLS-00201: identifier 'ADVIEWPROD' must be declared
ORA-06550: line 1, column 608:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
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Hi,
I’m bit new to OWB. I made mapping which I deployed successfully. I can run through control center and it works fine (it just fills a table). However when I made the process through process flow and after its validation , tries to start it gives me error RTC-5170: The selected objects do not require deployment as they are all up to date in the Control Center, which is followed by RTC-5006 and obviously no data generated in the table. How can I pass this error? Secondly I tried to schedule this, firstly it doesnot ask for the process flow during schedule, secondly even from schedule the map doesnot run.
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I have been using OWB (10g r2) for a while and have used "User Defined" activities in production process flows successfully before.
However my problem now is that the activity (shell command) I want to perform, takes more than 10 minutes to complete. If I run the process flow with a parameter that generates a shell command that executes in two or three minutes, the process flow continues past the sucessfully executed user defined activity to the next activity.
BUT
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(like in Runtime.properties
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I have been using OWB (10g r2) for a while and have used "User Defined" activities in production process flows successfully before.
However my problem now is that the activity (shell command) I want to perform, takes more than 10 minutes to complete. If I run the process flow with a parameter that generates a shell command that executes in two or three minutes, the process flow continues past the sucessfully executed user defined activity to the next activity.
BUT
If I run the same process flow (without modification or even redeployment) with a different parameter , the user defined acivity sucessfully executes (after about 11 minutes or so) but the process flow , doesnt seem to know that it is finished and just says it is still executing.
my "user defined" activity has
COMMAND: /usr/bin/ksh
PARAMETER_LIST bound to a variable which is set earlier in the process flow.
RESULT_CODE:
SCRIPT :
SUCESS_THRESHOLD : 0
by examining (RUNTIME CONTROL CENTER SCHEMA).all_rt_audit_execution_params
I can see that the variable contents assigned to RESULT_CODE look like this
'/usr/bin/rsh -n WINSRV1 dtsrun /usa /ppw /S WINSQLSRV /N JOBNAME_SHORT'
or this
'/usr/bin/rsh -n WINSRV1 dtsrun /usa /ppw /S WINSQLSRV /N JOBNAME_LONG'
I put the -n in because I thought that may have been the problem, but I think its more likely that there is come sort of ".properties" in a runtime file that needs to be set to control the "timeout" of user defined activities.
(like in Runtime.properties
property.RuntimePlatform.0.NativeExecution.Shell.security_constraint = NATIVE_JAVA
except maybe
.........Nativeexecution.timeout = .....?????
Has anybody had a problem like this? Found a document describing available configuration properties for PF activites?
Can anyone help?

What code do process flows run?

Hi there
Running a process flow but seems to be hanging - unfortunately can't use the repository browser to get an execution report as it is slow - don't know why?
Anyway when run mappings I know it is running packages on the database.
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This would help identify the error until such time as the repository browser issue is fixed. All i can see is the arrow in the control center and when right-click says error count 1.
Any ideas?
Many Thanks

Hi,
for monitoring process flows you can use Workflow Monitor.
Regards,
Oleg

Mapping is not run after adding to existing Process Flow

I am about to scream.
I have a process flow that has been running fine.
I added a mapping to the existing process flow, deployed the process flow, and now when I run the process flow it will not run the new added mapping.
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thanks for any help.
greG

Oleg,
Thanks so much for all the help. I read the other posts and checked my mapping but nothing helped.
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Hi,
We can run external process using Process flow.
I would like to run shell script as external process in Process flow.
Could any one please explain it?
Thanks and regards
Gowtham Sen.

HI,
As you said I tried this case. I got the following error. The script is running successfully while I tested at unix command prompt.
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Starting Task PFPS_SMPL_RUNSHELL
Starting Task PFPS_SMPL_RUNSHELL:EXTERNALPROCESS
/SOURCE_FILES/CollectFiles.sh: line 1: ls: command not found
/SOURCE_FILES/CollectFiles.sh: line 1: wc: command not found
/SOURCE_FILES/CollectFiles.sh: line 1: ls: command not found
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SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production on Fri Sep 29 22:57:39 2006
Copyright (c) 1982, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved.
ERROR:
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Enter user-name: SP2-0306: Invalid option.
Usage: CONN[ECT] [logon] [AS {SYSDBA|SYSOPER}]
where <logon> ::= <username>[<password>][@<connect_identifier>] | /
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Completing Task PFPS_SMPL_RUNSHELL
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My scenario is---
I am trying to return a file name from one shell script. I created a external process for that. After completion of this process, I am running another script which takes that file name and trying to create a external table. The both scripts are runnning successfully. But while I am trying to run using process flow, its not coming.
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Thanks and regards
Gowtham Sen.

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Hi
I am having a few problems running process flows that I'm deploying through OMB.
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All database updates are done outside of OWB (for version control purposes).
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Once everything has been imported into my production version, I'm then deploying the process flows from within the OMB script.
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Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Liffey

Hi Liffey,
Is there any way around this?
Can I somehow set the Design Status of all the objects to 'Unchanged' through OMB?
Is there a way to fool the process flow into thinking that the objects do exist?of course you must deploy mappings before deploying processflow
and as I know there is no legal method for avoiding this.
Regards,
Oleg
PS. Look at this thread [Deploying without Deploy|http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=2655726&#2655726]
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Re-Run Partially Completed Process Flow

OWB Version:10.2.0.2.8
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