Create, Change Variant for Mass Processing Report 

Prerequisites

The following describes procedures for calling up the list of variants that already exist in the mass processing menu and defining or changing variants for the mass processing report RCCYMAB2.

You can use the variants defined here to create jobs for mass processing in standard background processing. You can do this elsewhere than in the mass processing menus, for example for Event-driven mass processing.

You can find detailed information on variants in the documentation:

Procedure

Calling up list of variants that have already been created

  1. Defining parameters for mass processing.
  2. Select Schedule background job.
  3. Choose Execute.

If when defining parameters you have set the indicator Redefine selection you reach the selection screen for capacity leveling.

    1. Use the selection and filter criteria to define the objects for mass processing.
    2. Choose Execute.

The parameters and selection and filter criteria are automatically saved under the job name.

You reach the screen Mass dispatching: Variants where the variants that have already been created are listed.

Creating new variants

  1. On the screen Mass dispatching:Variants choose: Variant Dispatching ® Create variant.
  2. Specify the name of the variant and choose Create.

    3. When you first create a variant on the screen Mass dispatching you reach the dialog box Variants: Change screen assignment

    – Maintain the screen allocation.

    – Choose Execute.

    You reach the screen Maintain variants.

  3. Specify the job name whose parameter-, selection- and filter criteria you want to copy to the variant.
  4. Choose Execute.

    5. You branch to the screen for maintaining variant attributes.

  5. Enter a short text in the field Meaning that describes the variant and, if necessary, describe the attributes or the screen allocation.
  6. Save the variant.
  7. Press Back twice to branch to the screen Mass dispatching. Variants.

If you now want to start or schedule the mass processing job, select the variant and start/dispatch it. The mass processing job is executed using the job name that you have copied as a value to the variant.

Change variant

  1. On the screen Mass dispatching:Variants choose: the variant that you want to change.
  2. Choose Schedule job ® Show/change variant.
  3. You can use variants to

Save your entries every time
  1. Press Back twice to branch to the screen Mass dispatching. Variants.