Use
You can print reports in the background to avoid long runtimes for online reports and to print reports on a periodic basis. You do this by defining variants and variant groups for the reports.
Variants and variant groups in Release 4.x replace the variable groups used in earlier releases. For information about converting these from Release 3.x to 4.x, see the corresponding release note.
In the Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Executive Information System (EC-EIS) applications, reports are printed in the background using programs RKEBATCH and RKCBATCH, respectively.
Prerequisites
Before you can print reports in the background, you must define variants for the reports and then assign them to variant groups. For detailed information, see
Creating Variants and Variant Groups.Features
You print reports in the background by executing a variant group. A variant group can process multiple combinations of characteristic values for one or more reports at the same time.
Printing in the Background - Immediately and as Scheduled Job
When you print a report in the background, you can choose to print it immediately, or you can schedule it to print at a specific time.
Choose Information system or Drilldown Reporting
® Report data ® Schedule Variant Groups.For detailed information about background processing, see the online documentation Computing Center Management System (R/3 Library ® Basis ® System Administration ® Computing Center Management System ® Background Processing).