Differences Between Infopackage Groups and Process chains

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Can anybody explain me what are the differences between Infopackage Groups and Process Chains ? And how process chains are more comfortable

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

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Bye

Dinesh

[Former Member]

Hi,

A process chain is a sequence of processes that wait in the background for an event. Some of these processes trigger a separate event that can start other processes in turn.

Infopackage groups is the collections of Infopackages, thru which u can schedule them at the same time.

Infopackage group simply collects the execution of a group of infopackage, with the possibility to set waiting time and a few others basic things...process chain is a FERRARI car...you can do it many many more things than loading data: ABAP programs, roll-up, indexes and so on... (take a look to the help or to the dedicated section in www.service.sap.com/bi -> SAP BW InfoIndex-> Process Chain) and above all WHAT-IF scenarios: if successful do this, otherwise do that !!!

Process chain was one of the best new thing in 3.0 release...a kind of revolution in the management of BW affairs...more flexibility, more control...

[Former Member]

hi nagarjuna,

An InfoPackage group is a collection of InfoPackages. In order to summarize data requests which logically belong together from a business point of view, and to therefore simplify the request, you can collect data requests (meaning the InfoPackages) into an InfoPackage Group. You can schedule each of these groups in the scheduler . With the data request the scheduler can access InfoPackage groups directly and thereby request more than one InfoPackage at a time, corresponding to the setting in the InfoPackage group. Thus, you can support InfoPackage groups with the serialization of your data requests.

While a process chain is a sequence of processes that wait in the background for an event. Some of these processes trigger a separate event that can start other processes in turn. hit this link to know abt PCs:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/8f/c08b3baaa59649e10000000a11402f/content.htm

Process chains are more comfortable becoz itz not like infopackages where we have to schedule each pack individually. And in PCs, monitoring is very convenient since u see evrything in a single page.

regards

sham'm

[Former Member]

Hi Nagarjuna,

Infopackage goups:

Use to group all relevent infopackages in a group,

(Automation of a group of infopackages only for dataload)

Possible to Sequence the load in order,

Process Chains;

Used to automate all the processes including Dataload

and all Administrative Tasks like indices creation deletion, Cube compression etc

Highly controlled dataloading.

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi

Info Package Groups are used to group only Infopackages

where as Process chains are used to automate all the processes.

Cheers

Shiva