BW Process chain - Start and Restart

[lakshminarasimhan_n4]

Hi Gurus,

Many a times, we had to stop the process chain during weekends for the Source system maintain activity.

What we actually do is,

1. SM37 take all of the Released jobs with BI_PROCESS_TRIGGER

2. Now make the released jobs to "Released -> Scheduled"

3. After the source system is up we have to manually schedule all the process chains(Note - we dont have any "Scheduled -> Released", so manually we need to make the process chains as released)

This is pain taking, is there any simple way of doing the same ?

Thanks.

[lakshminarasimhan_n4]

Any other options available?

[former_member231709]

You can try develop a custom solution for decision in process chains. Depending on the settings (for example, you can create a configuration table for maintain this settings), decision in process chains start or not the chain.

[FCI]

You may have a look to the programs BTCTRNS1 (stop the jobs) and BTCTRNS2 (restart the jobs).

I didn't mention them because I had suprises when running the BTCTRNS2 (all the scheduled process chains started at once). But this happened quite a few years ago, maybe it has changed.

Regards

[lakshminarasimhan_n4]

No, i too faced the same issue and hence trying to find alternative.

[lakshminarasimhan_n4]

This is a very very important and basic requirement, i am suprised why SAP has not come with any solution for the same....

[former_member186445]

you can't do this for all chains at once, as you need to change the date of execution in the variant. So you need to go through every chain. Even with a custom program you would still need to do this one by one... no gain there in my opinioni

[former_member186445]

you can't do this for all chains at once, as you need to change the date of execution in the variant. So you need to go through every chain. Even with a custom program you would still need to do this one by one... no gain there in my opinioni

[FCI]

None that I know of. This is why I always try to minimize the number of scheduled process chains by creating meta-chains.

Regards,

Frederic

[lakshminarasimhan_n4]

Actually we have various chains running at different intervals.. So making meta-chains will help only to a certain extent. Has some one developed custom code/Program for the same?