After redeployment and instance migration the ORABPEL-02118 error and "Variant not found" error shows up and the instances go to recovery state. (Doc ID 2899699.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 03, 2022

Applies to:

Symptoms

The customer modified the process by adding a new process variable. After redeployment with keeping the instances running, they migrated all the instances to the new revision.
However, the instances processing failed with the following error:
2022-09-27T02:00:35.866-07:00] [soa_server1] [ERROR] [] [oracle.bpm.system] [tid: [STANDBY].ExecuteThread: '69' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [userId: AnnaB10] [ecid: dcfcbd6e-d0a8-480e-b597-bc2587133c56-00007974,1:68947] [APP: soa-infra] [partition-name: DOMAIN] [tenant-name: GLOBAL] [oracle.soa.tracking.FlowId: 130414] [oracle.soa.tracking.InstanceId: 468147] [oracle.soa.tracking.SCAEntityId: 10009] [oracle.soa.tracking.FaultId: 40197] [FlowId: 0000ODu49zrAlJs5ojXBiY1ZBR3f0000EP] [cube delivery, Variant not found.[[
The variable "<variable name>" is not declared in the current scope. All variables must be declared in the scope before being accessed.
This was an internal error. The flow was not generated correctly by the BPMN compiler.
Contact Oracle Support Services. Provide the error message, the composite source, and the exception stack trace in the log files (with the logging level set to debug mode).
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ORABPEL-02118
Variant not found.
The variable "<variable name>" is not declared in the current scope. All variables must be declared in the scope before being accessed.
This was an internal error. The flow was not generated correctly by the BPMN compiler.
Contact Oracle Support Services. Provide the error message, the composite source, and the exception stack trace in the log files (with the logging level set to debug mode).

at com.collaxa.cube.engine.core.Scope.getVariantRV(Scope.java:588)
at com.collaxa.cube.engine.core.Scope.getObjectRV(Scope.java:549)
at com.collaxa.cube.engine.core.Scope.getObject(Scope.java:896)
at oracle.bpm.bpmn.engine.runtime.BPMNExpression.createBPMNExpression(BPMNExpression.java:105)
at oracle.bpm.bpmn.engine.model.runtime.sequenceflow.ConditionalSequenceFlowInfo$1.evaluate(ConditionalSequenceFlowInfo.java:85)

Changes

New process variable has been added to the process and the process was redeployed with "keep instances running" option 

Cause

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