Scheduling Background Jobs  

Use

You can schedule background jobs in two ways from the Job Overview:

Procedure

  1. Call Transaction SM36 or choose CCMS ® Jobs ® Definition .
  2. Assign a job name. Decide on a name for the job you are defining and enter it in the Job Name field.
  3. Set the job’s priority, or "Job Class":
  1. In the Target server field, indicate whether to use system load balancing.
  1. If spool requests generated by this job are to be sent to someone as email, specify the email address. Choose the Spool list recipient button.
  2. Define when the job is to start by choosing Start Condition and completing the appropriate selections. If the job is to repeat, or be periodic, check the box at the bottom of this screen.
  3. Define the job’s steps by choosing Step, then specify the ABAP program, external command, or external program to be used for each step.
  4. Save the fully defined job to submit it to the background processing system.

Note: Release the job so that it can run. No job, even those scheduled for immediate processing, can run without first being released.

For a simple job scheduling procedure, see the R/3 Getting Started Guide.