Commit Work

[Gavin Mooney]

Hey Alon,

When I was looking into this issue once on 4.6C (for a project in the
UK that you may remember) I found that the code was littered with
explicit COMMIT WORK statements, including after the execution of each
step. I don't know if this has changed in the newer releases but my
guess is that by being a COMMIT WORK and not a COMMIT WORK AND WAIT
statement, you can still have update problems.

We didn't see this just with BAPIs though. As far as I remember we
resolved it either by creating a custom wrapper method that called the
standard one and then executed a (SAP authorised) COMMIT WORK or by
using async methods and terminating events.

I'd be interested to see what experiences other members of the group
have had....

Regards,
Gavin

2007/6/11, Dave Weston <Dave.Weston at clockwork.ca>:
> Alan, in step 1 are you also calling BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT at the end to do the commit and apply the changes to the db ? you can also use the WAIT parameter to wait for the update to take place as well.
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> Dave
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu on behalf of Alon Raskin
> Sent: Mon 6/11/2007 5:09 PM
> To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
> Subject: Commit Work
>
> A colleague of mine is having an issue and I wanted to see if anyone has seen this before. I have seen this issue creep up on different implementations so I am sure I am not the first to handle this.
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>         Step 1 creates a new document (doesn't matter what it is, its IS-U) by calling a BAPI
> *
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>         The BAPI returns the ID of the new object which can be seen in the container of the Workflow
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>         Step 2 then calls SYSTEM.GenericInstantiate to get an instance of the newly created document
> *
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>         Step 2 errors claiming that the object does not exist.
>
> I suggested to him to uncheck the Advance with Dialog step as I thought that this would 'force' the WF sub-system to do a COMMIT WORK between steps but this did not seem to work. I was sure that the Workflow sub-system always executes a COMMIT WORK between steps. Is that not the case? We did a test, and created a method where all it did was execute a COMMIT WORK. We inserted this step in between the BAPI and the System.GenericInstantiate and everything worked beautifully. So it is definitely a commit issue. Perhaps WF treats methods marked as BAPIs differently to standard methods and doesn't not do an explicit COMMIT WORK? If so, how do people get around this?
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> Regards,
>
> Alon Raskin
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