DELETING A CORRUPT PLANNING APPLICATION FROM EPM REGISTRY

A planning application, when it goes corrupt/missing,  can cause a lot of angst. This is one of those occasions where one can truly appreciate the beauty of the epmregistry utility.

We can invoke this utility from this location
MIDDLEWARE_HOME\user_projects\instance_name\bin directory  

In order to first begin , generate a registry report the output can be viewed in the diagnostics/reports directory.

Firstly proceed to delete the instance :

Delete Instance File
epmsys_registry removefile PLANNING_PRODUCT/@APPLICATIONNAME.instance

Now, get to the planning application:

Delete PLANNING  application
epmsys_registry deletecomponent #APPLICATIONNAME.HP

Post this , it should be a relatively straight forward approach of recreating the planning application .The best part about using this method is that you are able to give the application the same name post corruption. Not sure if that would have been possible in earlier releases.