BW_ACTIVATE_CHAIN

ID=

Technical designation of the process chain.
Value format: script literal

NOFOUND=

Handling if a process chain cannot be found.
Value format: script literal

Allowed values: NORMAL or ABEND
Default: NORMAL

NORMAL = Script continues, AE job ends normally.
ABEND = Script aborts, AE job ends abnormally.

ERROR=

Handling if a process chain ends abnormally
Format: script literal

Allowed values: ABEND, IGNORE or SUSPEND
Default: ABEND

ABEND = The script aborts, the AE job ends abnormally.
IGNORE = The script continues, the AE job ends normally.
SUSPEND = The job remains active until a restart of the process chain / its child processes has been successful or the job has been canceled manually.
You can use this parameter in order to restart process chains or their child processes. The advantage is that the job does not end which would include that processing continues in a parent (such as a workflow).

PROCESSLOGS=

Output of a process chain's individual process logs.
Format: script literal

Allowed values: YES, NO or ERROR
Default: YES

YES = Individual process logs are added to the process chain log
NO = Only the process chain log is output
ERROR = Individual process logs are output only in case of error.

RESTART=

Number of attempts for continuation of an interrupted process chain
Format: Integer
Default value: 0

JOBLOGS=

Output of the process background job log
Format: script literal

Allowed values: YES, NO or ERROR
Default: YES

YES = Process background job logs are output
NO = Process background job logs are not output
ERROR = Process background job logs are only output if an error occurs.

LONGTEXT=

Output of a log message's long text (diagnostics text).
Format: script literal

Allowed values: YES, NO or ERROR
Default: ERROR

ERROR = The log message long text is only output if an error occurs.
YES = The log message's long text is output.
NO = The log message's long text is not output.

REPLICATE=

Handling of the children of a process chain

Format of the value: script literal

Allowed values: ALL, YES or NO (Default value)

ALL = Replicates all a job's child processes in the AE system (including skipped ones). They are shown in the UserInterface's Activity Window. Statistical records and reports are also generated in the AE system.
YES = The children of a job are replicated in the AE system. They are displayed in the Activity Window of the UserInterface. Statistical records and reports are also generated in the AE system.
NO = There is no replication in the AE system.

Number or repeated status checks
Format of the value: number

Default value: 0

Due to a special SAP behavior, process chains can show the status "ended" for a short time but continue afterwards. The agent reports this process chain as ended if it has retrieved its status exactly at this point in time. Use the parameter STATUSRETRY= to prevent that the end of a process chain is reported too early. You can determine the number of repeated status checks with this parameter. Only after n repetitions, the Automation Engine will be informed that the process has ended.

New scheduling of process chains
Format of the value: script literal

Allowed values: YES (default) or NO

YES = The process chain is newly scheduled.
NO = There is no new scheduling. Doing so accelerates the process chain's start.

Executes process chains synchronously.
Format of the value: script literal

Allowed values: YES or NO (default)

YES = Synchronous execution. Therefore, the process chain is processed in dialog mode instead of background mode and the individual child processes are completed serially.
NO = No synchronous execution is used.

Requests the spool list of the started job.
Format of the value: script literal

Allowed values: YES or NO (default)

YES = The spool list is requested. It is stored as a text file in the directory that has been defined in the SAP agent's INI file with the parameter Download_dir= (Sektion [GLOBAL]). The name of this file is structured as follows:
<SAP job count>_<step number>_<spool number>.txt
This file is also registered as job output in the AE job.

NO = The spool list is not requested.

Writes the reports of the activated process chain's child processes to the job report.

The reports of replicated child processes are by default available in the job report AND the task of the child process. Therefore, this information is redundant in the job and you can decide not to assume this information here.

Allowed values: YES (default) or NO 

YES - Logs of child processes are written to the job report.
NO - Logs of the process chain's child processes are not assumed to the job report.

Note that the reports of the child processes are not available if you specify NO in the parameters REPLICATE and COLLECTLOGS.