How to restart lots of workflows in 'STARTED' status

[Rivera, Raul]

Hello Ross,

A couple of months ago, we also had the same issue of restarting 'hanging'
workflows. Cause was that the Support Pack application impacted the SWWDHEX
monitoring job for missed deadlines.

With inputs from the gurus this list, we were able to scrape enough
information and write a custom program that restarts the 'hangs'. The 30k
feet level program description is:
Input: The parent WF IDs of hanging WFs and the WF Definition ID (e.g.
WS9xxxxxxx) 
The program gets the starting input parameters and restarts each of the WF
instances

We also have a separate program to delete the old WFs after they have been
successfully restarted. 

Let me know if this program will help with your specific issue.

Raul

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Ross.Cresdee at iag.com.au
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:03 PM
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Subject: How to restart lots of workflows in 'STARTED' status


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Hi People,

I hope you can give me a few clues.  We've got a situation where hundreds
of workflows have been in 'STARTED' status for over a week.  The workflows
had reached a task that paused for 10 seconds and there they waited.  Our
deadline monitoring job was not running while these hanging workflows
accumulated but the workflows did not take off once the job was restarted.
We've noted that we can force each workflow to manually complete but we
don't want to have to do this for hundreds of workflows one at a time.

Is there a way of restarting all these workflow that are in status
'STARTED' but are waiting for a time in the past ?

Thanks for any assistance.

Regards,  Ross.



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