Process Chain cancels itself after 3.5 upgrade.

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

Having recently upgraded our landscape to 3.5 from 3.10 Content we have been experiencing problems with our process chains.

When the chains are scheduled to run over night we get the following message :-

Job started

Step 001 started (program RSPROCESS, variant &0000000199467, user ID ALEREMOTE)

Communication buffer deleted from previous run 420T34M70PV9XYSIC0F6EOHT4 (status G)

Version 'M' of chain CRMDATA1 was saved without checking

Version 'A' of chain CRMDATA1 was saved without checking

The Chain Was Removed From Scheduling

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002276

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002284

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002288

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002292

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002357

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002369

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002373

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002376

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002379

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002464

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002469

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002472

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002474

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002476

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002478

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002581

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002584

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002586

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002588

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002590

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002697

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002699

Program RSPROCESS successfully scheduled as job BI_PROCESS_LOADING with ID 20002699

Event RSPROCESS with parameter 3U1BN9WKLFJSIFKIP1HT1N6SO successfully triggered

Job finished

And the chain portion of the message shows this :-

On 05.06.2006 At 20:00:28 O'Clk and 507 MS

With Status Canceled

Target Event RSPROCESS

With Parameter 3U1BN9WKLFJSIFKIP1HT1N6SO

And non of the Jobs within the chains run.

Now if we run the chains manually everything is fine.

Does someone have an explaination for this or better still a way to fix it.

I have searched the forum already and SAP Notes system to no avail.

Help please.

Thanks in advance.

Craig

[Former Member]

Craig

Have you checked the Process chain after Upgrade. It seems it is not in active status. Please check this and activate and run again

Thnaks

Sat

[Former Member]

Sat,

Yes the chains are active, made certain of that!

What's most perculiar is that the chains sometimes run partly but more often they just cancel. What I mean by that is this one chain runs 3 individual chains simultaneously and 1 will complete but the other 2 will just cancel themselves.

Now as I have mentioned the chains run just fine manually but fail when scheduled.

This was never a problem with the previous version of BW.

Thanks

Craig

[Former Member]

Do you have any entries in the SM21 or ST22? Maybe the runtimes changed and they now lock each other.

Best regards

Dirk

[Former Member]

Dirk,

Thanks for the reply. I had checked these but I was originally looking for error messages. However upon further inspection I see the following messages :-

No job count can be generated for job BI_PROCESS_LOADING

During the values check for background processing, the attempt to generate a unique JOBCOUNT for the specified job failed because there are more than 99 entries with the same JOBNAME / JOBCOUNT ID. Forward this syslog entry to SAP.

BP_JOB_CREATE: Job cannot be generated. Reason:

The attempt to create a new background processing job (by means of the function module BP_JOB_CREATE) failed. The reason for this is described in more detail in a further system log entry after this system log entry.

Job BI_PROCESS_LOADING contains invalid data

The attempt to create a new job ( function module BP_JOB_CREATE ) or to modify it ( function module BP_JOB_MODIFY ) failed because job data is invalid. It is described in more detail which data is invalid in a previous system log entry. Please correct this data.

Any idea how we can fix this ?

Cheers

Craig

[Former Member]

Some ideas:

First of all you should replicate all data sources and run report RS_TRANSTRU_ACTIVATE_ALL.

Second, find all jobs with jobname BI_PROCESS_LOADING. Terminate them if they are still running (while waiting for triggers e.g.)

Next you can start the process chain again.

If it still doesn't work don't forget what the syslog tells you:

Forward this syslog entry to SAP.

Best regards

Dirk

[Former Member]

Dirk,

Thanks for the suggestions. Looks like this is referenced in SAP Note 728947. Will find out tomorrow if this has fixed our problem.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Craig

[Former Member]

Yep the SAP Note did allow us to correct the problem.

Hope this information helps anybody else.

Regards

Craig

[Former Member]

Craig,

We are also facing the similar problem. But our environment is netewver 2004s BI 7.0

Can you guide me how to get the error messages.

Thanks

Vijay