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Definition

Application processes are processes that are automated in the process chain maintenance. They represent BW activities typically executed in the operative use of BW.

The application processes supported by the process chain maintenance are:

Process Category

Application process type

Loading process and postprocessing

·         Execute InfoPackage

You can find further information about the data loading process under Scheduler.

Caution

If you use process chains, the automatically integrated processes are ignored and have to be implemented using the process chain.

For example, if you have selected the processing types Only PSA and Subsequently in Data Targets in the InfoPackage from the Processing tab page, and you are using this InfoPackage in a process chain, then the further processing into the data target does not automatically happen. Instead, it only happens if the process Read PSA and Update Data Target is scheduled in the respective process chain after the loading process.

·         Read PSA and Update Data Target

·         Saving hierarchies

·         Updating ODS Object Data (Further Updating)

·         Exporting data to external systems

·         Deleting Overlapping requests from An InfoCube

Data target administration

·         Deleting Indexes

·         Constructing indexes

·         Constructing database statistics

·         Initial Filling of New Aggregates

·         Rolling up Filled Aggregates

·         Compressing InfoCubes

·         Activating ODS Object Data

·         Deleting data target contents in full

·         Deleting the entire contents of the linked, transactional ODS

Reporting Agent

·         Exception Reporting

·         Printing in the Background

·         Pre-calculating Web templates

·         Pre-calculating value sets

You can find additional information under Including Packages in the Process Chain in the Report Agent documentation.

Other BW processes

·         Attribute Change Run

·         Adjusting time-dependent aggregates

·         Deleting Requests from the PSA

·         Reorganize Master Data Attributes and Texts

General services

·         ABAP Programs

·         Operation System Command

·         Process Chain local

·        Remote Process Chain

·        Workflow (also remote)

 

·         Processes You Have Implemented

You can call up documentation for a process type in the BW system by marking the process type in the overview tree and choosing F1. The tree is located in the left-hand screen area of the process chain maintenance. You can also add a process to the dialog window in which the variant is fixed before choosing This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Further Help.