FBE60203 An exception was caught while scheduling the pub

scheduling XI Scheduler
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Publications with Crystal reports and dynamic recipients running on BO XI R3.1 SP4.

The following exception happens periodically for scheduled publication and a manually run now for the same instance is always successful. It only happens once a week or biweekly for one random publication compared to hundreds of publications running daily which are successful.

The recurrence page on CMC shows correct run schedules - either daily, weekly or monthly.

Had filed incident with SAP. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

“An exception was caught while scheduling the publication. (FBE60203)”
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.Calendar.setTime(Calendar.java:1037)
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:785)
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:778)
at java.text.DateFormat.format(DateFormat.java:314)
at com.businessobjects.publisher.distribution.PlaceholderHelper.updatePublicationPlaceholders(PlaceholderHelper.java:160)
at com.businessobjects.publisher.distribution.DistributionHelper.doDistribution(DistributionHelper.java:541)
at com.businessobjects.publisher.distribution.DistributionHelper.distributeScopeBatch(DistributionHelper.java:332)
at com.businessobjects.publisher.processing.ScopeBatchHandler.run(ScopeBatchHandler.java:115)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:650)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:675)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

hybobj (BOB member since 2014-07-01)

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Hi,

We have the same issue. Have you received a resolution for this from SAP (or anyone else)?

Thanks,
Brian

bciampa (BOB member since 2009-02-26)

3

Any response from SAP on this? We are getting a similar issue:

2019-01-08 15:39:58,930 ERROR [PublishingService:HandlerPool-32] BusinessObjects_PublicationAdminLog_Instance_74413112 - [Publication ID # 74413112] - An exception was caught while scheduling the publication. (FBE60203)
java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method java.util.Date.getTime() of a null object loaded from local variable ‘date’
at java.util.Calendar.setTime(Calendar.java:1076)
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:875)
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:868)
at java.text.DateFormat.format(DateFormat.java:316)
at com.businessobjects.publisher.distribution.PlaceholderHelper.updatePublicationPlaceholders(PlaceholderHelper.java:180)

This BO V4.1 SP6.
at com.businessobjects.publisher.distribution.DistributionHelper.doDistribution(DistributionHelper.java:486)
at com.businessobjects.publisher.distribution.DistributionHelper.distributeScopeBatch(DistributionHelper.java:276)
at com.businessobjects.publisher.processing.ScopeBatchHandler.run(ScopeBatchHandler.java:156)
at com.businessobjects.publisher.processing.threadpool.TraceLogRunnableWrapper.run(TraceLogRunnableWrapper.java:29)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:763)

This happens quite regularly but seems to be random as to which publication gets the error. The publication is immediately rerun and completes successfully.

berniebridge :uk: (BOB member since 2019-01-08)