Abrupt stop in workflow execution

[Parag Joshi]

Hi Alon,
 
Thanks for your input.
 
Checked the short dumps for past few days(This had happened few days ago,=
 
last week), nothing under WF-Batch.
 
Any other suggestion?
 
 
>-- Original Message --
>Date:         Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:19:59 +0100
>Reply-To:     SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>From:         Alon Raskin <araskin at 3i-consulting.com>
>Subject: Re: Abrupt stop in workflow execution
>To:           SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
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>Did you check for short dumps by WF-BATCH?
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>Alon Raskin
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>3i-consulting Group
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>e: araskin at 3i-consulting.com
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>w: http://www.3i-consulting.com <http://www.3i-consulting.com/>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Pa=
rag
>Joshi
>Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:19 PM
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Abrupt stop in workflow execution
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>Folks,
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>I had a unusual situation.
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>Workflow execution suddenly stopped during runtime. System was supposed
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>to create a dialog workitem and it didn't. Workflow graphical log shows
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>that is  stopped just before creating the dialog workitem. No errors log=
ged.
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>I somehow re-started the workflow with "restart workflows after system
>crash"
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>and it started, though it ended in error after the dialog workitem was
>executed.
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> Then I used "restart after error" to get the workflow in track.
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>Again, there was no system crash, everything was working perfectly fine.=
 
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>Workflow has been functional for long time, dialog task is a old recurri=
ng
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>task. No authorizations were changed. Funnier part, I am not able to
>recreate
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>the situation. I am having hard time locating the culprit and convincing=
 
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>the users the it won't happen again.
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>In my design, I am calling sub-workflows in loop, loops can eventually
get
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>quiet deep, typically 8 levels. I am not sure if this loops causes hiccu=
ps
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>for the system to keep track of.
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>I have never faced such situation before...anybody has?
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>Thanks.
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>Parag Joshi.
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>SAP Workflow Consultant.