Required Background Jobs

Definition

Einige Hintergrundjobs sollten in einem produktiven SAP-System regelmäßig laufen. These jobs perform housekeeping chores such as deleting outdated spool requests of background jobs.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.

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.

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)

RSM13002

None

Daily

SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_JOBSTATISTIC

Generates runtime statistics for background jobs

RSBPCOLL

None

Daily

SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_PERFMONITOR

Collects system performance statistics

RSCOLL00

None

Hourly

The following jobs are for creating or updating the indexes that are required for working with ABAP Workbench. The indexes are needed

  • for the where-used list,

  • for creating object lists or,

  • for navigation.

Job Name

ABAP Program

Required Variant

How Often?

EU_INIT:

Analyzes all customer programs and creates the indexes that are required for the where-used list.

SAPRSEUC

None

Once

EU_PUT:

Ensures that the indexes for the transported development objects are updated in the target system after a transport.

SAPRSEUT

None

Daily

EU_ REORG:

Takes over smaller cleanup tasks to reduce the load on the dialog operation.

SAPRSLOG

None

Daily