Defining a Rollup for Background Processing 

Use

You can execute or reverse a rollup in either online or background processing. Normally, executing or reversing your rollup involves large amounts of data and requires extensive processing time; in this case, you should execute or reverse your rollup in background processing.

Procedure

  1. Choose Accounting ® Financial accounting ® Spec. Purpose Ledger ® Periodic Processing ® Rollup ® Execute/Reverse.

    2. The Execute/Reverse Rollup: Initial Screen appears.

  2. In the Rollup field, enter the name of the rollup for which you want to create a job for background processing and choose .

    3. The Execute/Reverse Rollup <Name>: Parameter Screen appears.

  3. Enter data as required.

    4. For more information about entering the values in these fields, see Executing a Rollup and Reversing a Rollup .

  4. Set the Background processing indicator and choose Execute or Reverse.

    5. A dialog box appears, prompting you for job information.

  5. Enter the information for executing/reversing the rollup in background processing and choose . The Simple Job Selection screen appears.
  6. Enter the following data as required:

You can also use a more flexible job selection. Further selection criteria are available for this: Choose with quick text Extended Job Selection.

7, Choose Execute.

Result

The Job Overview screen appears. Here, you can edit your job(s).

For more information on background jobs, see the SAP Library under Getting Started ® Basis ® Computing Center Management System (BC-CCM) ® Computing Center Management System (BC-CCM) ® Background Processing ® Managing Jobs with the Job Overview.