Troubleshooting

Use the information in this section to help you understand, isolate, and resolve issues with the SAP BW Pack.

For information about generic Pack issues, see technote 1393028.

Resetting jobs
It may be necessary to clean up temporary runtime files left over from the previous job runs. For information about running the job Reset utility, see technote 1441969.
Other issues
  • For jobs hanging or terminating with a timeout message, see technote 1441967.
  • For load jobs failing with mutex related errors, for example, Close () - Error in takeFileMutex") try increasing the value of DSBW_MUTEX_TIMEOUT, see technote 1596058.
  • For jobs failing with RFC_ERROR_SYSTEM_FAILURE errors, see technote 1573828.
  • For load jobs failing with an error related to last packet, see technote 1595990.
  • For information about getting an error when refreshing the 3rd party selections tab of the InfoPackage in the SAP GUI (rsa1), see technote 1427181.
  • For information about locating the DS job name in SAP BW and to correct the settings, see technote 1509631.