Datasphere replication flow Initial load in progress (retrying)

[Arvind_Sharma]

Hi Gurus,

We are facing issue with replication flow Initial Load, running for ever with message "Initial load in progress (retrying)". Source is standard CDS view having dataExtraction.enabled: true annotation.     

Please let me know if further information is needed. Thanks for your support in advance.

Best Regards
Arvind

[EmiliaFij · Accepted solution]

Hello, 

I am having exactly the same issue since 2 days. After the upgrade of Datasphere. Currently having 2025.2.126 version. What is your version ? 

Kind regards,

Emilia 

[Arvind_Sharma · Accepted solution]

Hi, our version is also 2025.2.126. I am getting this issue for some of Replication Flows. Are you getting for all Replication Flows...

Best Regards
Arvind

[Vinieth · Accepted solution]

Same here...we are also getting for only some replication flows..there is a note which seems to point to authorizations..trying to see what happens https://me.sap.com/notes/3553846/E

[EmiliaFij · Accepted solution]

i am also getting issues with some RF. But mainly transactional CDS views breaks due to this error. We have opened SAP case.

[samuele88 · Accepted solution]

Hi, Any answer from SAP?

[Vinieth · Accepted solution]

We identified the root cause why data is not loading for I_XXXXXXX . This is due to Datasphere Model editor bug which introduced wrong datatype definition for columns IntcoExtActlTransfOfCtrlDteTme, IntcoIntActlTransfOfCtrlDteTme, IntcoExtPlndTransfOfCtrlDteTme, and IntcoExtActlTransfOfCtrlDteTme timestamp columns.

This bug has been fixed in Datasphere version 2025.3.66.

Option 1: Go to Data Builder Replication Flow editor, delete I_XXXXXXX object., add the object. Then deploy. If you do not want to delete the replication object, then follow these manual steps 2-9

2. Go to Data Builder editor

3. Use Edit -> “Export to CSN/JSON File” from the replication flow editor and export the CSN definition of the RF

4. Open the exported file, search for $DYNAMIC.decimal_undefined_undefined under the section “replicationTasks” and replace it with com.sap.core.timestamp. Repeat this for all occurrences of $DYNAMIC.decimal_undefined_undefined in the file and replace with com.sap.core.timestamp

5. After the above changes are made, save the file.

6. Navigate to Data Builder landing page and import the above file using the option Import Objects from CSN/JSON File

7. Deploy the replication flow from the landing page (Please do not deploy the replication flow from the editor)

Please note that when you modify the replication flow definition externally, you should only change the recommended fields as any wrong changes can break the replication flow.