Hi ,
Can anyone help me out with the below issue?
IS there a way that we can restart RFC automatically, I mean scheduled restart once a week or twice a week instead loging into Management console and restart manually.
The connection active after 100 or 300 hours is broken and I have to manually restart.
Thanks
Kumar.
itsvsk 
(BOB member since 2011-05-04)
Interesting! I am also in the same situation. I am going to raise this with support though.
In my case, the connection at DS end is active but wasn’t able to start any jobs sometimes.
ganeshxp 
(BOB member since 2008-07-17)
Same in my situation.connection shows started but jobs will not start until I restart rfc.
itsvsk (BOB member since 2011-05-04)
VSK, I have raised a case with Support. Let us see what they come up with.
ganeshxp (BOB member since 2008-07-17)
Ganesh,
Please update me if you hear any updates on this.
Thanks
Kumar.
itsvsk (BOB member since 2011-05-04)
Kumar, whenever the connection hangs, did you managed to do connection test in SM59 ?
ganeshxp (BOB member since 2008-07-17)
No I did not try.
itsvsk (BOB member since 2011-05-04)
If you will have SM59 access could you verify if the Connection Test is okay everytime or at least do it once with your BASIS guy?
Today my connection hung up and when I did a Connection Test in my environment it succeeded which now almost sounds like a Data Services issue for me.
ganeshxp (BOB member since 2008-07-17)
Ok. When I found RFC issue.If I repeat BW infopackage in process chain. It will work.
Again I see the same issue some time next day with some other infopackages.So I am unable to confirm if fix on BW.
But If I restart RFC on dataservices management console and bring down the connection hours from 300 or 400 to zero. I dont see issue atleast for another week(again till some 300 hrs plus).
So I am not sure fixing in BW works.
itsvsk (BOB member since 2011-05-04)
Where do you set the 300 or 400 number you are talking about?
ganeshxp (BOB member since 2008-07-17)
It is in SAP RFC Active connection in Data services management console.
We see active connection hours. If we restart RFC it will start from zero.
itsvsk (BOB member since 2011-05-04)
Did you figure it out?
itsvsk (BOB member since 2011-05-04)
Thanks Kumar, yes I do see that number…Basically the number of hours since it started.
For me it don’t last any longer than a day or two
ganeshxp (BOB member since 2008-07-17)
You mean you are seeing issue every two three days? Or connection is being refreshed every two three days?
I am checking if we can auto schedule rfc so it refresh the connection .
itsvsk (BOB member since 2011-05-04)
Let us see. I have sent across my findings to Support. Also asked them about the auto-restart. Let us see.
ganeshxp (BOB member since 2008-07-17)
Thank you. Please update me if you hear any.
itsvsk (BOB member since 2011-05-04)
Also in the meantime, the next time it comes down, would you do SM59 connection test and let me know.
Yeah for me, it blows up everyday really.
ganeshxp (BOB member since 2008-07-17)
Sure. I will.
You can try restarting rfc from management console.
itsvsk (BOB member since 2011-05-04)
Kumar, I have got fix from SAP Support. I am asking for a SAP Note for this.
We basically have to fix a JAR File and a DLL File for this.
The JAR File location as below:
<IPS_INSTALL_FOLDER>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\java\lib\bundles\com.sap.jco_3.0.8.jar
If you will have any version of JAR File above this 3.0.8, then this issue shouldn’t exist. I am hearing that JCO Connector version is 3.0.9 in IPS 4.1/BI 4.1. Also I verified that in an upgrade system of ours.
ganeshxp (BOB member since 2008-07-17)
I am seeing com.sap.jco_3.0.8. please suggest do I need to replace with upgraded version jar file?
itsvsk (BOB member since 2011-05-04)