Job Scheduling Management

This component helps you to put Standard Job Scheduling Management into action. It is one of the 16 SAP standards for optimal business operation. For more information about Standard Job Scheduling Management, see http://www.sap.com under Explore SAP Services SAP Active Global Support End-to-End Solution Operations Job Scheduling Management .

Job documentation allows you to manage and document the background processing of your entire system landscape. Aside from this, you can import jobs and their scheduling parameters from systems connected with the SAP Solution Manager into job documentation. Aside from pure documentation, it is also possible to schedule jobs from a job documentation in systems connected with the SAP Solution Manager.

With job documentation you can also configure and document the job monitoring of SAP Solution Manager business process monitoring.

Implementation Considerations

You have SAP Solution Manager and have made the necessary system settings for theScheduling Jobs in Customizing of theSAP Solution Manager under Configuration Scenario-Specific Settings Planning a Job .

To use the application optimally, edit the following data:

Job documentation is the central object of the Standard Job Scheduling Management and enables you to centrally record and manage jobs in the SAP Solution Manager system.
Put the solutions for the background processing business processes, in the SAP Solution Manager Solution Landscape Maintenance. For more information, see Defining Solutions in the Solution Directory.
Put the solutions for the background processing business processes, in the SAP Solution Manager Solution Landscape Maintenance (transaction SMSY).
You configure business process monitoring for relevant business processes in the SAP Solution Manager and business process steps in the corresponding solutions. For further information, see Business Process Monitoring.

Features

SAP Solution Manager Job Scheduling Management provides:

Structured job documentation of business and technical properties
- Documentation of a job and its steps
- Documentation of business process steps automated by a job and the corresponding system using the logical component
- Documentation of business requirements and priority, as well as the organization responsible
- Job scheduling
  - Documentation of all job scheduling parameters supported by the automatic data transfer from connected SAP systems
  - Scheduling of jobs (according to authorizations with or without release) centrally from the SAP Solution Manager system to connected SAP systems.
- Job monitoring (area of Business Process Monitoring)
  - Documentation of job monitoring configuration
  - Configuration of job monitoring with job documentation
    
    The job documentation must be assigned to a business process for this and business process monitoring must be configured and activated for this business process.
  - Documentation of problem-handling procedures
  - Documentation for scheduling, monitoring, development, and system landscape.
  - Documentation of scheduling restrictions
Job requests
End-users create requests for background processing.

Implementing Standard Job Scheduling Management is supported by the following application in the SAP Solution Manager:

Job Documentation
For more information, see:
- Working with the Job Documentation Overview
- Creating and Editing Job Documentation
Job Scheduling
For more information, see:
- Scheduling Jobs with Job Documentation
  You can use this to schedule a job for which you have already created job documentation.
- Scheduling a Job Directly
  You can use this to schedule a job without creating job documentation in advance.
Job Request
The job request is based on a Service Desk message that includes job and job documentation entries. For further information, see Job Requests. See Service Desk for more information about the Service Desk.