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Background documentation Functional Constraints of Processes  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

The lock logic between the load, compress, roll-up, activate and load processes of an InfoCube is as follows:

Recommendation

To ensure that the various processes do not lock each other out, SAP recommends that you use process chains. See also the example for Including InfoCubes in Process Chains. When designing complex process chains, you yourself have to ensure that these processes do not lock each other.

While Loading

It is not possible to:

·        Delete data

·        Archive data

·        Delete indexes and reconstruct them

·        Reconstruct statistics

While Indexes Are Being Built

It is not possible to:

·        Delete indexes

·        Fill aggregates

·        Roll up requests in aggregates

·        Create statistics

·        Compress requests

·        Archive data

·        Update requests to other InfoProviders

·        Perform change runs.

While Statistics Are Being Built

It is not possible to:

·        Delete indexes

·        Build indexes

·        Fill aggregates

·        Roll up requests in aggregates

·        Compress requests

·        Archive data

·        Update requests to other InfoProviders

·        Perform change runs.

During Roll Up

It is not possible to:

·        Delete indexes

·        Build indexes

·        Create statistics

·        Fill aggregates

·        Compress requests

·        Perform change runs.

While Compressing

It is not possible to:

·        Delete indexes

·        Build indexes

·        Create statistics

·        Fill aggregates

·        Roll up requests in aggregates

·        Archive data

·        Update requests to other data targets

·        Perform change runs.

While Deleting

It is not possible to:

·        Load data

·        Delete indexes

·        Build indexes

·        Create statistics

In certain circumstances it is not possible to:

·        Fill and roll up aggregates

·        Perform change runs

·        Compress requests

·        Update requests to other InfoProviders

While Updating

It is not possible to:

·        Compress requests

·        Archive data

 

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