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.
With process flows I understand it is using oracle workflow but I'm not very familiar with this - do process flows have some code on the database you can look at and run hands on in the same way you could run a mapping/transformation.
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

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We have lot of process flows already created. They used Transformation object in many process flows. But they didn't write any PL/SQL code for this transfomation. They wrote shell scripts. They are giving lot of problems. Here my question is can we write shell scripts for transformation? What I know is we have to write PL/SQL code for transformation objects in process flows. If anybody have PL/SQL code for process flows transformation can you share?
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sounds like you've got some issues there.
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