Background Task hanging in 'In Process' Status

Wed Jun 13 10:06:08 EDT 2001

Thanks for the 'QUICK' responses.
I found the errors in SM58 of the record being locked!
Will put some coding in the program to avoid this.
THANKS AGAIN!!!!

> Pam Coe
>
> Application/Project Services - SAP Development
> Mail WW2481 - Dow Corning Corp.  Midland, MI 48640
> email: pam.coe at dowcorning.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Flavio Oliveira [mailto:oliveiraflavio at hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:00 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Background Task hanging in 'In Process' Status

Try to check your RFC transactions by using transaction SM58. Sometimes
because of large amount of processes, the RFC's cannot run automatically.
With this transaction you can see if there is some process waiting and even
run it manually.

When this became more frequently, you can try to change some basis
parameters to prevent this happens. I do not know which are these
parameters, but you can look at OSS. There is some notes there about this.

Flavio.
Pam,

Sounds a bit like a locking error which could happen occasionally when
another user is accessing a record which has to be modified by the task you
are describing (actually your workflow background user who tries to change
something).

Can occur when database updates are carried out by your customer task and
there is an error in your locking mechanism (no exception handling defined
or programmed when an object can not be locked by the workflow task; the
task may remain in process indefinitely).

Regards,

Jeroen

>From: Pam Coe <pam.coe at dowcorning.com>
>Reply-To: SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Background Task hanging in 'In Process' Status
>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:41:06 -0400
>
>Was wondering if anyone has encountered this and may have any suggestions.
>
>We have a task that is a 3.0F/4.6B single step (not part of a workflow)
>that
>is a background method that is running hundred times a day.   The task is a
>customer task that is event trigger from a change document.   On occasion
>(very, very seldom), the task seems to hang in 'In Process' status and
>never
>complete.   WF-BATCH is fine (since thousands work after it).  Found no
>issues in ST22.
>
>I have gone into the workitem that is stuck in 'In Process' but couldn't
>see
>anything through the diagnosis.   Any suggestions as to why this may be
>happening?   Any suggestions to what we might do?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> > Pam Coe
> >
> > Application/Project Services - SAP Development
> > Mail WW2481 - Dow Corning Corp.  Midland, MI 48640
> > email: pam.coe at dowcorning.com
> > PHONE:  (989) 496-1817, FAX: (989) 496-8017
> >
> >
>
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