SAP Business Warehouse: Interrupting the

Process chain
Posted by Jyothi velpula 10 May, 2011
Scenario:
Lets say there are two Process chains A and B and C. A and B are the Master chains which
extracts the data from different non sap source systems. All our BW chains are dependent on a
non sap source system, when the jobs get completed on non sap systems, itll send a message to
the third party system from where our BW jobs will get triggered an Event based.
Note: Reason why the non sap system sends the message to third party triggering tool is because when ever
there is failure in the non sap System; it will not raise an event to kick off the BW chain(s). we have to trigger
them manually. To avoid this we use the third party triggering toll to trigger the chains at a time using an Event .
Now C is dependent both on A and B, In other words C has to trigger only after A and B is completed.
We can achieve this using the Interrupt Process type.
For example, if Process chain A got completed and B is still running, then using the Interrupt we can make the
Process chain C to wait until both the Chains got completed.
Lets see step by step.
Process Chain A and B
Process chain C
Process chain C is dependent on both A and B chains, we use interrupts (A_interrupt, B_interrupt) which will
wait till those chains got completed.

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Now lets see how interrupt works

A_interrupt: Interrupting the PC C until PC A gets completed.

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Copy the highlighted Event and Parameters

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Enter the above copied Event and Parameter in the Interrupt Process type like below screen

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Activate and schedule all the three process chains.

Note: All the three process chains (A, B, C) get triggers on Event based.
When the process chain C is in Scheduling, you can see the job BI_INTERRUPT_WAIT
chains like below screens.

in both A and B

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Three chains (A , B , C) got triggered by the same Event

<<img src="https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/weblogs/images/251925283/Interrupt10.JPG" border="0" alt="image"
width="659" height="200" />
C will wait for both A and B like below.

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Loed Despuig in response to Pratik Tandel on page 8

30 Jan, 2014 4:55 PM
By the way, I am just curious, but this is not part of my requirements..
Where can I configure to run the process chain multiple times in a day?
Loed Despuig in response to Pratik Tandel on page 8
30 Jan, 2014 4:52 PM
So if I put the START PROCESS to run daily it will only run once a day (even if the PERIODIC in INTERRUPT
EVENT was ticked)? Is that right? Ok mate..Thanks for clarifying it..
Thank you!

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Loed
Pratik Tandel in response to Loed Despuig on page 8
30 Jan, 2014 3:48 PM
Loed SUB_PC will not run unless you have it periodically scheduled to run multiple times in a day.
How often SUB_PC runs, will depend on the periodic values of START_PROCESS of SUB_PC and not the
INTERRUPT_EVENT in SUB_PC.
Pratik.
Loed Despuig in response to Pratik Tandel on page 8
30 Jan, 2014 3:11 PM
Thanks mate..
Will that happen everyday?
On your example, the MAIN_PC ran at 10AM so the ABAP PROGRAM will also ran at 10AM..What if the event
was triggered again at around 1PM same day? Will the chain re-run?
Thank you!
Loed
kodanda pani KV
29 Jan, 2014 3:03 PM
Hi,
Thanks for your post.
Thanks,
Phani.
Pratik Tandel in response to Loed Despuig on page 9
29 Jan, 2014 2:21 PM
Loed In your case, ABAP Program in SUB_PC will run only after MAIN_PC is finished and after the scheduled start
time of SUB_PC, ie., 8 am).
If MAIN_PC finishes after 10 am, then SUB_PC will start after 10 am.
Hope this helps,

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Pratik.
Loed Despuig
29 Jan, 2014 8:30 AM
Hi,
I have a question..
What if I have two (2) chains:
MAIN_PC - executed daily every 3AM
SUB_PC - executed daily every 8AM
This is the diagram of my SUB_PC chain which starts every 8AM daily:
START
|
INTERRUPT
(based on AFTER EVENT - using the EVENT and PARAMETER of last process of MAIN_PC chain)
|
ABAP PROGRAM (to send report)

***NOTE:
The ABAP PROGRAM in SUB_PC chain must run later than 8AM and if MAIN_PC ran successfully..

Will the INTERRUPT process work before the ABAP PROGRAM in the SUB_PC chain if the MAIN_PC
ran before 8AM? How about if MAIN_PC ran around 10AM (because an error occurred during its run), will
SUB_PC still work?
Thank you!
Loed
Ganesh Bothe
29 Jan, 2014 8:17 AM
Useful information..thanks for sharing

Jyothi velpula in response to Adonis P on page 10

30 Oct, 2012 7:21 AM
Sorry about that, will try
Thanks

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Adonis P
24 Oct, 2012 3:42 PM
Thanks for your post. But one of your image has broken, can you repair it? thanks!
Jyothi velpula in response to Pratik Tandel on page 10
15 May, 2011 8:02 PM
Hi Pratik,
Scenario1:Yes, When A fails and B succeeds.. C will wait for A until it gets successfully completed.
Note:When a PC gets failed,we will rectify the issue to get it resolved and make the PC successful.otherwise
we'll miss that particular day data!
Scenario2:C will pick up both A's previous and current load.
Thank you.
J
Pratik Tandel
13 May, 2011 7:52 AM
Thanks for your post. I have a question though, what happens in this scenario.
Let's assume A fails and B succeeds. C will wait till both are finished, in which case it will not run that day.
Next day both A and B succeeds, will C pick up the data request ID from previous day for A or will it have both
data request IDs.
Also what does the Reset Interrupt do? Any insight will be helpful. Again thanks for the post and visual
explanation.

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