Performing the Postprocessing of a Cycle

The Postprocess Cycles app is used to run and resume postprocessing, and to review the current postprocessing item statuses. It only has a main view.

In the postprocessing phase, the migrated data is converted to match the release of the target system by leveraging the ABAP upgrade mechanism.

The Postprocess Cycles app has two main controls:

• Run
• Resume

You can run postprocessing only after the cycle transformation has successfully finished (cycle run status is Done or Done with Error). In such cases, the cycle postprocess status is Ready.

If the cycle run status is Done with Error (only for test cycles), you can restart the transformation phase to fix the errors. After the restart is finished, you can proceed with running postprocessing.

There are two postprocessing run modes:

• Run with interruption: This mode stops at every error and can resume the run. The encountered errors are not marked as skipped.
• Run without interruption: This mode runs through the entire postprocessing item list. If there are errors, they are automatically marked as skipped.

When postprocessing is finished, select Go to see updates on postprocess items and check the cycle postprocessing status on the detail page of the Manage Cycles app:

• If the cycle postprocess status is Done, postprocessing has finished; check the status of items. If any item has status Done with required manual activities, perform the manual activities in the target system.
• If the cycle postprocess status is Done with Error, postprocessing has finished with errors; check the status of items. If any item has the status Done with required manual activities, perform the manual activities in the target system.
• If the cycle postprocess status is Error, postprocessing has finished with errors.
• If the cycle postprocess status is Done with Error or Error, you can resume it.

You can resume postprocessing if it finished with errors (cycle postprocess status is Done with Error or Error).

The resuming mode options depend on the postprocessing run mode. In case of a run with interruption, the options are:

• Reprocess Unskipped Errors: Reprocesses all unskipped errors and continues postprocessing for items not yet processed.
• Reprocess All Errors: Reprocesses all errors (skipped and unskipped) and continues postprocessing for items not yet processed.
• Skip Errors: Skips all errors and continues postprocessing for items not yet processed.
• Reprocess Skipped Errors: Reprocesses all skipped errors.

In the case of run without interruption, there is only Reprocess Skipped Errors (reprocess all skipped errors) option.

In case of un-reprocessed errors after error fixing, select the Resume button and choose the mode to resume postprocessing.

After resuming postprocessing, select Go to see updates on postprocessing items and check the cycle postprocess status on the detail page of the Manage Cycles app:

• If the cycle postprocess status is Done, postprocessing has finished; check the status of items. If any item has status Done with required manual activities, perform the manual activities in the target system.
• If the cycle postprocess status is Done with Error, postprocessing has finished with errors; check the status of items. If any item has status Done with required manual activities, perform the manual activities in the target system.
• If the cycle postprocess status is Error, postprocessing has finished with errors.
• If the cycle postprocess status is Done with Error or Error, you can resume it again.

Watch this video to learn about postprocessing information.

To view more detailed information on the results after the postprocessing run is completed, please select Postprocess Logs in the Postprocess Cycles tab of the Manage Cycles app.