Process Chain → Attribute → ...

Information

Description

( Rename)

You can change the name of the process chain

Display Components

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Display components act as sort criterion in process chain maintenance. Assigning process chains to display components makes it easier to access the chain you want.

To create a new display component, choose the input help in the Assign Display Components window. In the Display Grouping dialog box that appears, assign a technical name and description to the display component.

Documents

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You can create and display documents for a process chain.

For more information, see Documents.

Last Changed By

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Displays the technical attributes of the process chain:

●      When and by whom it was last changed

●      When and by whom it was last activated

●      Object catalog entry

Evaluation of Process Status

If you set this indicator and schedule a successor process Upon Error or Always, the system classifies all the incorrect processes of the chain as successful with regard to the overall status of the run.

This indicator is relevant if you are using meta chains: You can classify errors in the processes of the subchains as 'unimportant' for the meta-chain run. The subchain is classified as successful, despite errors in processes of the subchain. If the successor of the subchain in the meta chain is scheduled Upon Success, the meta chain runs despite errors in the 'unimportant' processes of the subchain.

This indicator does not apply to mailing or alerting; these functions are still triggered if there are incorrect processes with a successor processor scheduled Upon Error.

Polling Indicator

This indicator allows you to control how the main process responds if you have distributed processes. Distributed processes, such as the loading process, are characterized as having different work processes involved in specific tasks.

You use the polling indicator to specify whether you want to keep the main process until the actual process has ended.

Selecting the indicator:

-         Ensures a high level of certainty in the process flow

-         Informs external scheduling tools of the status of the distributed processes

However, system resource consumption is higher and a background process is required.

Monitoring

With the indicator in the Exclude Chain from Automatic Monitoring dialog box, you can specify that you want to exclude a process chain from automatic monitoring using CCMS.

By default, CCMS switches on automatic process chain monitoring.

For more information about the CCMS context Process Chains, see BW Monitor in CCMS.

Alerting

You use alert management to send alerts if errors occur during a process chain run.

For more information, see Send Alerts for Process Chains.

Background Server

Here you can specify the server or server group on which you want to schedule all the jobs in the chain. If you do not specify a server or server group, background management distributes the jobs across the available servers.

Editing Client

If you are using process chains in a client-dependent application, you specify the client in which you want the chain to be used here. You can only display, edit, schedule and execute the process chain in this client.

If you do not maintain this attribute, you can display, edit, schedule and execute the process chain in all clients.

General Services process variants that are included in a process chain that has this attribute are only displayed in the specified client.

This attribute is transported. You can change it during the import by specifying an import client. In the target system, you have to create a destination for import post processing in the client that is specified (transaction RSTPRFC).  The chain is then activated in this client after the import and scheduled if necessary. More information: Importing Client-Dependent Objects.

Execution User

In the standard setting, a BI background user executes the process chain (BWREMOTE).

You can change the default setting so that you can see the user that executes the process chain and thereby the processes: You see this information in the Job Overview (transaction SM37). You can select the current dialog user who schedules the process chain job, or specify a different user.

The setting is transported.

The BI background user has all the required authorizations to execute all BI process types. Other users have to assign themselves these authorizations so that authorization errors do not occur during processing.

Job Priority

You use this attribute to set the job priority for all the jobs in a process chain.