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Object documentationRequired Background Jobs

 

There are several background jobs that should run periodically in a production SAP System. These jobs perform housekeeping chores such as deleting outdated spool requests of background jobs.

You should schedule each of these jobs for periodic execution according to the schedule shown in the following table.

Note Note

This list does not include housekeeping and reorganization programs that belong to SAP applications. See the customizing system for more information on these programs.

End of the note.

By following the naming conventions shown in the table, you help ensure that SAP will be able to verify that these programs are properly scheduled in the event of any problems.

Periodic Jobs Required for Housekeeping:

Job Name

ABAP Program

Required Variant

How Often?

SAP_REORG_JOBS

Deletes old background jobs

RSBTCDEL

You must create a variant

Daily

SAP_REORG_SPOOL

Deletes old spool requests.

RSPO0041

You must create a variant

Daily

SAP_REORG_BATCHINPUT

Deletes old batch input folders

This job may not run at the same time as normal batch input activity. Schedule this job for periods during which no batch input sessions are run.

RSBDCREO

You must create a variant

Daily

SAP_REORG_ABAPDUMPS

Deletes old dumps produced by ABAP abnormal terminations.

Alternative

To keep from needing to schedule this job, run the ABAP report RSNAPJOB from the ABAP editor instead. This schedules RSSNAPDL as follows:

  • Job name:

    RSSNAPDL

  • Variant name:

    DEFAULT (you must create this variant)

  • Start time:

    0100 AM

  • Repeat interval:

    Daily

RSSNAPDL

You must create a variant

Daily

SAP_REORG_JOBSTATISTIC

Deletes job statistics for jobs not run since the specified date (statistics no longer needed since job was a one-time occurrence or is no longer run)

RSBPSTDE

You must create a variant

Monthly

SAP_REORG_UPDATERECORDS

Deletes old completed update records (automatic delete deactivated); deletes incomplete update records (automatic delete deactivated)

Caution Caution

Run this job ONLY if:

  • You have deactivated the default automatic deletion of update records once they have been processed. This function is controlled by the system profile parameter rdisp/vb_delete_after_execution

  • You have deactivated the default automatic deletion of incomplete update records (records that are partially created when an update header is created and saved but the generating transaction then ends abnormally). This function is controlled by system profile parameter rdisp/vbreorg

  • You have deactivated processing of V2 update components after the processing of the associated V1 updates. This function is controlled by system profile parameter rdisp/vb_v2_start.

End of the caution.

RSM13002

None

Daily

SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_JOBSTATISTIC

Generates runtime statistics for background jobs

RSBPCOLL

None

Daily

SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_PERFMONITOR

Collects system performance statistics

Note Note

This job was previously called COLLECTOR_FOR_PERFORMANCE_MONITOR. When scheduling this job, be sure to use the new name.

RSCOLL00 schedules all reports that are required for the Performance Monitor. RSCOLL00 takes the names for the reports to be executed from TCOLL. .

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RSCOLL00

None

Hourly