Cycles lock in background job of program RKGALKSV5

[Former Member]

Hello All,

Can we enter more than 1 cycle on the selection screen field (where it says ' Enter Cycles') when we execute program RKGALKSV5 (Actual Distribution)? In the same job, can we enter more than 1 cycle for this program? We are getting locks for cycle run group 0000 and the first cycle entered (the variant has 3 cycles). Does anyone else have same issue?

Appreciate your help!

Thanks,

Suma

[former_member182098]

Hello,

Hope the following note gives you good information.

Note 416507 - ALLOCATION: Troubleshooting guide

Regards,

Ravi

[Former Member]

Hello Ravi,

Thanks for the help.

I looked at the note Note 416507 - ALLOCATION: Troubleshooting guide. I did not find any relevant information regarding the locks in cycles. The exact error message I am getting is 'Cycle XXXXXXXXXX 01/01/2007 cannot be started because run group 0000 is locked.' - Error message GA 562.

I checked couple of SAP notes. Note 70094 - ALLOCATION: lock problem during background processing and Note 967372 - New GL or SL allocation: explaining the lock concept.

Both the notes explained the lock concept either between cycles running for different company codes or cycles running for different cycle run groups within the same company code. But in our system, we have only one company code and default cycle run group 0000 and only 1 job which executes 3 cycles in the program RKGALKSV5.

So I had a question, if we can run 3 cycles in the same program, in a single job, for a default cycle run group 0000 within the same company code.

Thanks,

Suma

[former_member182098]

Hi Suma,

Can you please look into the following notes:

Note 162521 - ALLOCATION: Error GA562 for assessment or IAA to CO-PA

Note 437939 - ALLOCATION: Needless blocks with extract view

Regards,

Ravi

[Former Member]

Hi Ravi,

Thanks again!

Both the notes you mentioned are not for ECC 6.0 and we are in ECC 6.0. Sorry I forgot to mention that before. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Suma

[former_member182098]

Hi Suma,

Can you please check the following note.

Note 1253633 - ALLOCATION: GA 562 despite use of RKALWAIT

Regards,

Ravi

[Former Member]

Ravi,

Appreciate your help once again.

We are not using the program RKALWAIT. This is because, all the 3 cycles are run by the same program in one distribution job. We dont have 2 jobs to run the program RKALWAIT in between the jobs. Thats why I had the question, if we can run 3 cycles with the same program in same job.

The note you mentioned, has changes to RKALWAIT :).

Any other ideas?

Thanks again,

Suma

[former_member182098]

Hello,

If you run 3 cycles with the same program in separate jobs, will there be any issue functionally?

I would suggest you run 3 cycles with the same program in separate jobs (at least some minutes time gap). Then you should not have any locking issue.

Regards,

Ravi