Commit Work

[Alon Raskin]

Hi Ed,

Thanks very much for the response. I have been burnt way too many times by BDCs. Not to mention performance implications. Perhaps it is an OK for workflows with low volumes but on an IS-U implementation (read Mike Gambier Taylors response to see what I mean) a BDC is a recipe for disaster.

Thank you for your input anyway.
 
Alon Raskin

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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu on behalf of Edward Diehl
Sent: Tue 6/12/2007 08:43
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: Commit Work


Hi Alon,
I try to always use a BDC function to create a new object rather than a BAPI.  A BAPI, if it is not called as an RFC, required an explicit COMMIT WORK.  It may be some defect in my understanding, but I am not a big fan of BAPIs for several reasons and this is just one of them.
 
Regards,
Ed Diehl




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	Subject: Commit Work
	Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:09:57 -0400
	From: araskin at 3i-consulting.com
	To: sap-wug at mit.edu
	
	
	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?
	Regards,
	
	
	
	
	Alon Raskin
	 

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