Ewprod Hanging

: Create 3D wall-mounted vases by weaving paper strips.

A large retail customer reported Ewprod hanging every Friday at 3 PM. Analysis revealed that a custom program (Z_SALES_SUMMARY) was running parallel processing across 25 work processes. The program opened a CURSOR on table VBAK but never closed it due to an EXIT statement in the wrong loop. Over 6 weeks, 150 orphaned cursors consumed all database handles. When the 151st job ran, Ewprod could not open a new DB connection and hung completely. Ewprod Hanging

, a seminal framework in business research developed by Robert G. Cooper. What it is: : Create 3D wall-mounted vases by weaving paper strips