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Suddently unstable SAP connector - General advices?

Hi,

We're loading now since 2 years data out from SAP which worked quite well (maybe every 3th or 4th month a fail). But suddenly everything changed from one day to another. What happened? No idea! I guess you guys are our last chance before I just destroy the whole damn thing.

SAP Team: "No change on our side"

SAP Basis Team: "No change on our side"

Network Team: "No change on our side"

IT Team: "No change on our side"

Our team: No change (that's the only thing I truly know )

Our setup is the following:

SQL Loads:
A couple of tables (smaller & "bigger" like 2 millions), reading * and saving it in a qvd. We're using Generators for this, each of them will take table by table. We had 3 in parallel in the past, tried also to do only one a time.

Extractor loads:

Bigger tables (like JFRK, JKAP etc.). Also done by Generators, extractor by extractor. 3 in parallel (tried also with 1).

Logic:

- SQL connection for the status table, identify if the job still runs (from a previous failed load)

- BAPI to abort the job

- Extractor load (some with delta, some with *)

Cause we were helpless we did a complete upgrade of all components:
- Qlik V12 Nov. SR3

- SAP Connector 6.6 (also updated the transports)

But the jobs still failing.

What happens?

Sometimes it's doing smoothly load by load (however we didn't saw this since weeks ). Now most of the times it's starting to load some tables and suddently it hangs/freeze. And the timeout will appear. We also tried to work with retrys in the QMC, sometimes we're getting the data in the second load (therefore I assume the SAP service is still doing his job). Same with the SQL loads: It works, timeout, works again. SAP Service is running without any crash.

Logs of some fails:

    2018-03-06 20:24:38 0137 SQL Select *  from JFPA

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      11 fields found: MANDT, VBELN, POSNR, PARVW, KUNNR, ADRNR, LAND1, ADRDA, XCPDK, ISPADRNR, ISPADRVAR,

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      Error: QVX_UNEXPECTED_END_OF_DATA:

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      LOCATION    CPIC (TCP/IP) on local host with Unicode

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      ERROR       connection to partner '[server]:3300' broken

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      TIME        Tue Mar 06 20:26:20 2018

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      RELEASE     721

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      COMPONENT   NI (network interface)

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      VERSION     40

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      RC          -6

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      MODULE      nixxi.cpp

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      LINE        4599

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      DETAIL      NiIWrite: P=145.234.71.231:3300; L=0.0.0.0:52418

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      SYSTEM CALL WSASend

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      ERRNO       10053

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      ERRNO TEXT  WSAECONNABORTED: Software caused connection abort

    2018-03-06 20:26:20      COUNTER     5

    2018-03-06 21:15:07 0225 [ZDS_JFRK_temp]:

    2018-03-06 21:15:07 0226

    2018-03-06 21:15:07 0227 SQL EXTRACTOR ZDS_JFRK

    2018-03-06 21:15:07 0228 TFRMETHOD T  

    2018-03-06 21:15:07 0229

    2018-03-06 21:15:07 0230 UPDMODE F   

    2018-03-06 21:15:07 0231 EXTRLANGUAGE E

    2018-03-06 21:15:07 0232 LOGSYS QTQVCEXTR1

    2018-03-06 22:20:32      98 fields found: AEDAT,[]

    2018-03-06 22:20:32      Error: QVX_UNEXPECTED_END_OF_DATA: Timeout while waiting for SAP data

    2018-03-06 22:20:32      Execution Failed

    2018-03-06 22:20:32      Execution finished.

>> Info entry 2018-03-07 04:00:27.167 [Thread 1]

Trace directory changed from .\ to C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\Custom Data\QvSAPSqlConnector\Log\

**** Log file opened by process 8928 at 2018-03-07 04:00:27 (UTC+01:00 W. Europe Standard Time)

SAP .NET Connector 3.0 with file version 3.0.18.0 running on 64-bit .NET Framework 4.0.30319.42000

Program: C:\Program Files\Common Files\QlikTech\Custom Data\QvSAPSqlConnector\QvSAPSqlConnector.exe

Working directory: C:\Windows\system32

Operating system: Windows Server 2012 Standard Server 64-bit

Processor: 14x AMD64 (or x64)

SAP release: 721, Kernel release: 721, Kernel patch level: 713

Hostname: [host], IP address: 145.234.72.76, IP_v6 address:

Default trace level: None

>> Info entry 2018-03-07 04:00:27.167 [Thread 1]

Trace directory changed from .\ to C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\Custom Data\QvSAPSqlConnector\Log\

>> Error entry 2018-03-07 04:00:28.761 [Thread 5]

[SERVERTYPE=0 ASHOST=[server] CLIENT=100 SYSNR=00 USER=USR4QV PASSWD=******** SNC_MODE=0 SNC_QOP=9 ADVANCEDPROPERTIES=0 CONVROUTINE=0 CHECKSEPARATOR=0 NULLDATE=1 REMOVEALLBLANKS=0 REPLACENULLVALUE=1 TRACE=0 MIXEDMODE=0 NULLDATELEGACY=0 FLTPLEGACY=0 TIMSLEGACY=0 DATATYPELEGACYMODE=0 PACKETSIZE=20000 FETCHBUFFERS=99999999 BUFFERPERCENTAGE=10 TIMEOUTBATCH=600 TIMEOUTFETCH=1200 TIMEOUTSTARTBATCH=2400 BATCHJOBNAME=/QTQVC/READ_DATA NAME=DefaultDestination]

SAP.Middleware.Connector.RfcAbapException: TIMEOUT_READ_DATA

   at SAP.Middleware.Connector.RfcConnection.ThrowRfcErrorMsg()

   at SAP.Middleware.Connector.RfcConnection.RfcReceive(RfcFunction function)

   at SAP.Middleware.Connector.RfcFunction.RfcDeserialize(RfcConnection conn, IRfcIOStream stream)

   at SAP.Middleware.Connector.RfcFunction.RfcCallReceive(RfcConnection conn, IRfcIOStream stream, RFCID rid)

   at SAP.Middleware.Connector.RfcFunction.Invoke(RfcDestination destination)

           

  

  

     2018-03-07 02:00:20 0178 CUSTOM CONNECT TO ***

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0181 JVTLFZUO:

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0182 LOAD

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0183 *

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0184 SQL EXTRACTOR ZDS_JVTLFZUO

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0185 TFRMETHOD T  

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0186

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0187

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0188 UPDMODE F  

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0189

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0190

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0191 EXTRLANGUAGE F

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0192 LOGSYS QTQVCEXTR1

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0193 WHERE

    2018-03-07 02:00:20 0194 ERSCHDAT I EQ '20180126'

    2018-03-07 04:00:30      17 fields found: ERSCHDAT, []

    2018-03-07 04:00:30      Error: QVX_UNEXPECTED_END_OF_DATA: Timeout while waiting for SAP data

    2018-03-07 04:00:30      Execution Failed

    2018-03-07 04:00:31      Execution finished.

2018-03-07 02:00:20     Connector: C:\Program Files\Common Files\QlikTech\Custom Data\QvSAPConnector\QvSAPEXTRConnector.dll Ver: 6.6.0+Build:00257.origin/master

2018-03-07 02:00:20     Using Server Host: [server] , Port: 8680

2018-03-07 02:00:20     Socket timeout parameter (s): 900

2018-03-07 02:00:20     Socket created OK

2018-03-07 02:00:20     DNS: getaddrinfo

2018-03-07 02:00:20     Connected to SAP (ASHOST): [server]

2018-03-07 02:00:21     Making new SAP Request

2018-03-07 02:00:21     EXTRACTOR = ZDS_JVTLFZUO

2018-03-07 02:00:21     TFRMETHOD = T

2018-03-07 02:00:21     UPDMODE = F

2018-03-07 02:00:21     EXTRLANGUAGE = F

2018-03-07 02:00:21     LOGSYS = QTQVCEXTR1

2018-03-07 02:00:21     EXTRACTOR ZDS_JVTLFZUO#TFRMETHOD T#UPDMODE F#EXTRLANGUAGE F#LOGSYS QTQVCEXTR1#WHERE#ERSCHDAT I EQ 20180126#

2018-03-07 02:00:21     Connection properties: ASHOST=[host], SYSNR=[00], CLIENT=[100], SRVHOST=[srv], SRVPORT=[8680], USERIP=[], XUSERID=[], XPASSWORD=[]

2018-03-07 02:00:21     TimeoutSAP     : 14400

2018-03-07 02:00:21     TimeoutInit    : 900

2018-03-07 02:00:21     TimeoutActivity: 7200

2018-03-07 02:00:21     TimeoutData    : 3600

2018-03-07 02:00:21     TCPBufSize     : 1024

2018-03-07 02:00:21     Received Meta Data, No of Fields: 17

2018-03-07 02:01:45     Information from server: INFOMSG : Started job (INITRNR): REQU_QTQVCEXTR1_20180307020021

2018-03-07 04:00:21     JOB STATUS: TIMEOUT TRIGGER (TimeoutActivity) SENT TO SERVICE TO ABORT THE SAP JOB

2018-03-07 04:00:26 Err Timeout while waiting for SAP data

2018-03-07 04:00:28     Disconnected

2018-03-07 04:00:30     Closing the Socket

END AT:

2018-03-07 04:00:31

Total run time: 02h 00m 11s

3 Replies
johanelopak
Contributor
Contributor

Hi Andreas,

Did you get this solved? We have exactly the same issue.

Since 9 month's of stability, it suddenly changed in a very unstable reload without anyone changing a thing.

Thank you!

Anonymous
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Author

Hi Johan,

Yes, it's solved

But - hard to say what I was at the end. We did several checks in SAP and also changed a lot of parameters. But to be honest at the a reboot of the whole SAP env. was the game changer. Even everything looked normal on SAP I believe somehow wehere ressourced allocated and not really free which caused instability. After the reboot everything was cleared and worked again smoothly...

If you can just reboot and check if this solved your problem.

Anonymous
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Author

Hi ,

I am facing a similar issue wherein the QlikSense Reloads fetching data from SAP Server through connector hang and have to be aborted. 

Also, another issue that I am frequently facing is RFC Serialization Failure. My current packet size is 20,000.

Please help with these.