2382830 - bpm_delete_only job ending with error

You run bpm_delete_only job properly but it finishes with ERROR status.

Then you check the default trace relevant to the failure per the instructions in SAP KBA 1596214. As a result, the following exceptions appear:

• I/O problem occurred when executing Archiving Command indexdescribe
• Processing of delete only command failed
  [EXCEPTION]
  com.sap.glx.arch.commands.ArchCommandException: I/O problem occurred when executing Archiving Command indexdescribe
  ...
  at com.sap.engine.core.thread.execution.CentralExecutor$SingleThread.run(CentralExecutor.java:328)
  Caused by: java.io.IOException: response_code=401
  at com.sap.archtech.archconn.commands.AbstractArchCommand.execute(AbstractArchCommand.java:275)
  ...
• Job "<job_id>" could not be run as user "<logged_in_user>".
  [EXCEPTION]
  java.security.PrivilegedActionException: com.sap.glx.arch.commands.ArchCommandException: I/O problem occurred when executing Archiving Command indexdescribe
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  ...
  at com.sap.engine.core.thread.execution.CentralExecutor$SingleThread.run(CentralExecutor.java:328)
  Caused by: com.sap.glx.arch.commands.ArchCommandException: I/O problem occurred when executing Archiving Command indexdescribe
  at com.sap.glx.arch.commands.ArchCommandsManager.propagateIOError(ArchCommandsManager.java:214)
  ...
  Caused by: java.io.IOException: response_code=401
  ...

The logged on user has full authorization to perform the deletion, according to what is mentioned in the following SAP KBA:
2367392 - Missing permission error for bpm_delete_only job

Although the UME action SAP_BPM_DELETE_PROCESS is assigned to the user, the job still fails with 401 error (not authorized).

• SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management
• Java Archiving Service

KBA , BC-BMT-BPM-SRV , Process Server , Problem