How To Fix HRFPM347 - A financing requirement could not be locked after &1 attempts

HRFPM347 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: HRFPM - Messages Budget Planning & Budget Execution

• Message number: 347

• Message text: A financing requirement could not be locked after &1 attempts

What causes this issue?

A financing requirement could not be locked because it is already being
used in another update process that is currently running.

System Response

The system could not perform the update for the financing requirement in
question.

How to fix this error?

Restart the commitment creation.
If this problem occurs frequently in parallel commitment creation, you
can do the following:
Change the <DS:DE.HRFPM_ENGINE_PARALLEL_PROC>control parameters for
parallel processing</>.
Increase the <DS:DE.HRFPM_T77S0_WAIT>number of attempts</> the system
makes to lock a financing requirement.

Procedure for System Administrators

In the T77S0 parameter HRFPM/WAIT, you specify the number of locking
attempts.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message HRFPM347 - A financing requirement could not be locked after &1 attempts ?

  The SAP error message HRFPM347 indicates that a financing requirement could not be locked after a specified number of attempts. This error typically occurs in the context of the SAP Human Capital Management (HCM) module, particularly when dealing with financing requirements in the context of payroll or personnel administration.
  
  Cause:
  
  
  Concurrency Issues: The error often arises due to concurrent access attempts to the same financing requirement by multiple users or processes. If one process is already locking the financing requirement, other processes may fail to acquire the lock after several attempts.
  
  
  Database Locking: The underlying database may have locking mechanisms that prevent multiple transactions from modifying the same data simultaneously. If the lock cannot be obtained within the specified number of attempts, this error is triggered.
  
  
  Long-running Transactions: If a transaction is taking too long to complete, it may hold onto the lock longer than expected, causing other transactions to fail in acquiring the