Process Management and Consolidation

You can consolidate data at any time regardless of the process level of the dependents. The first time that you consolidate data for a process unit, the parent data status is NODATA and the initial process level is Not Started. After consolidation, the parent data status changes to OK, but the process level is still Not Started. The Review Supervisor can then start the process unit.

If any of the children contain NODATA, the consolidation process can still occur. When you attempt to promote the parent data to the next process level, the system performs validation checks. The initial process level is Not Started. After you consolidate, the parent process level is still Not Started. You can manually change the process level of the NODATA process unit. After the NODATA process unit has been changed, the parent can then be promoted to a level that is less than or equal to the lowest of all of its immediate children.