COGNOiSe.com - The IBM Cognos Community

Planning & Consolidation => COGNOS Planning => Topic started by: shananigins on 11 Sep 2008 06:42:48 PM

Title: CAC Macro - stopping execution
Post by: shananigins on 11 Sep 2008 06:42:48 PM
Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone has run into an issue where they are running a Macro in the CAC (8.3) and the macro gets hung up.  I've been trying to stop the macro, fixed the error that caused the stall, have deleted all the macro steps, restarted services, restarted the server and it's still hanging onto the Macro.

Any ideas of what to try next?

Thanks!
Title: Re: CAC Macro - stopping execution
Post by: sascha on 12 Sep 2008 01:38:18 AM
Hi shananigins

do you mean that it is still hanging or it hangs up again when trying to run it again?
Title: Re: CAC Macro - stopping execution
Post by: shananigins on 12 Sep 2008 08:59:41 AM
Still hanging...been going for 20 hours now.
Title: Re: CAC Macro - stopping execution
Post by: sascha on 12 Sep 2008 09:55:45 AM
Try removing the app from the Content Store, restart server and reattach it (link to existing app).

Does the macro state prevent you from rerunning the macro or is it only displayed as a kind of log?
Title: Re: CAC Macro - stopping execution
Post by: shananigins on 16 Sep 2008 05:28:22 PM
Thanks all!  I sorted out this issue.

My biggest concern was just deleting the macro as I wasn't sure if it would continue to run in the back ground (as many Cognos processes tend to do).  After logging a ticket with Cognos, I found out that deleting a macro clears it out all together.

Problem solved.
Title: Re: CAC Macro - stopping execution
Post by: adityashah27 on 16 Sep 2008 08:22:45 PM
Just to share one more option,
you can also kill processes from planning/job server's task manager.
Title: Re: CAC Macro - stopping execution
Post by: sascha on 17 Sep 2008 02:53:13 AM
Quote from: adityashah27 on 16 Sep 2008 08:22:45 PM
Just to share one more option,
you can also kill processes from planning/job server's task manager.


Is there a separate process that is started to process macro jobs?
Title: Re: CAC Macro - stopping execution
Post by: adityashah27 on 18 Sep 2008 12:43:50 PM
i think above question is for me,

no its the same process. just like any other program, you would see process ids in the task manager when its using CPU of that server.
Title: Re: CAC Macro - stopping execution
Post by: GEPlebe on 10 Nov 2008 08:44:01 PM
I know this is a dead topic - but recently had same problem and eventual solution (perhaps easier than deleting the macro) was to simply restart the Cognos service....