Selecting, or Specifying, Jobs (SAP Library

Selecting, or Specifying, Jobs

Use

Before you can maintain, or manage, background jobs, you need to identify to the background processing system which jobs you want to access. You will specify that you want to look at jobs based on any combination of job attributes. You will then get a Job Overview list that contains only those jobs that meet all the selection criteria you've defined.

Procedure

Before entering the Job Overview screen (CCMS ® Jobs ® Maintenance or Transaction SM37), the system first displays the Select Background Jobs screen, where you must select the criteria for the jobs you want to manage. These criteria include:

Job name (which can contain a wildcard (*) to select jobs with related names or—by using the wildcard alone—any job). This is required.

Name of the user who scheduled the job (the wildcard is allowed here as well). This is required.

Job status

Planned or actual start time of the job.

Job start condition or event linked to the start condition

Job step

When and how often the job runs, or " periodicity"

You can choose between two levels of detail when selecting jobs:

The Simple Job Selection option allows you to specify the high-level properties needed to filter the jobs to include in the Job Overview list. These include job name, user name, job status, job start condition and ABAP program job steps. This option is geared towards users with limited experience with background processing jobs.
The Extended Job Selection (or Flexible Job Selection) option allows you to specify all the details available in Simple Job Selection as well as refining your selection criteria across a wider range of attributes.

Each job attribute (start condition, status, steps, active state, and period) can be included in your job selection. Only jobs that fit the criteria you define for ALL of these attributes will be included in the Job Overview list. For each attribute, you can define several different critera to contribute to filtering the job list.

Example

For example, if you complete the Start condition tab with start date 04/14/2000 and event SAP_TEST and fill the Step tab with ABAP program BTCTEST, the jobs selected will include all jobs with that start date AND jobs triggered by that event provided they also have the ABAP Program step BTCTEST.

Once you've completed an extended job selection definition, you save it, add it to a list of "favorites," and recall it later to use again, without needing to manually redefine each detail.

To display jobs in all clients requires administrator authorizations for background processing. Without this authorization, only jobs in the client that you are logged on to will be displayed.

Once you have set the criteria for your job selection, choose Execute to carry out the selection.