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You have the following options in the data transfer process maintenance transaction on the Update tab page under Error Handling:

Options for Error Handling Error Handling is.... Explanation
Terminate request; no record tracing; no updating Fully deactivated.

This is the default setting in the data transfer process.

With the first error, updating is terminated for the entire data package, and the error is reported as a package error in the DTP monitor. The request is not released for reporting.

The records with errors are not written to the error stack since the request is terminated and has to be updated again in its entirety.

The error is not assigned to the data record. The system does not build the cross-reference table to determine the data record number. This makes processing quicker.

This option produces the best performance in all cases where the data quality is satisfactory, and the data flow has been tested.

With this option, the Activate Monitoring Automatically checkbox is set by default. This means that that the option for errro handling is set to Terminate request; First record with errors is traced; No updating in the following cases:

  • If a red request is restarted (because of the DTP setting Automatically repeat red requests in process chains for example).
  • If the check started by the checkbox when request processing starts finds that the previous request has the technical status red.

With this setting, the cross-reference table is created, thus allowing better troubleshooting. If errors occur, the cross-reference table makes it possible to trace back to the source in order to find out which data record caused the error.

Terminate request; First record with errors is traced; No updating Deactivated.

The system behaves the same as with option Terminate request; no record tracing; no updating, with the difference that the cross-reference table is created in order to find data record number during processing of all DTP data packages. If errors occur, the cross-reference table makes it possible to trace back to the source in order to find out which data record caused the error.

Request red; Write error stack; Update valid records Activated.

If errors occur, the technical status of the request is set to red once the data packages have been processed.

This option makes it possible to update valid data that is been released for reporting. This does not happen however until after the updated records have been checked, and the request has been released manually by setting the overall status.

The records with erros are written to a separate error stack where they are edited and can be updated manually using an error DTP.

Request green; Write error stack; Update valid records Activated.

If errors occur, the technical status of the request is set to green once the data packages have been processed.

The valid records are available immediately for reporting and analysis purposes. Automatic follow-on activities are performed automatically (such as modifying aggregates).

The records with erros are written to a separate error stack where they are edited and can be updated manually using an error DTP.