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Functions

What needs to be done?

General Selections

Function for entering, changing, or displaying the parameters of a program run.
You can only make changes to program runs that have not been scheduled yet.

Enter the parameters that you want to use to restrict, for example, the items to be processed (for example, company code, contract account, business partner). Enter no selection criteria if you want the program run to process the whole data set.

Free Selections

Enter additional activity-specific parameters, such as additional selection parameters.

Enter parameters as required.

Technical Settings

If required the programs are run in parallel. To execute several jobs at the same time (to synchronize them), enter the target host and the number of jobs required. Several jobs are then started simultaneously in one program run, each processing one of the intervals in parallel. You can divide the intervals according to different criteria. The split is controlled by variants in which you can specify the number and size of the intervals, and which key area each interval covers. The block size controls how many selected items are retained, for example, in the main memory. If you want to run the program in parallel, either specify a target host and the number of jobs assigned, or specify several target hosts with the number of jobs assigned to each one. For parallel runs, you can also use automatic load distribution. This means that you specify a number of jobs that the system automatically optimizes to the application servers available.

Enter the number of intervals and a target host. The system proposes the block size.
If the program run is to be executed by a single run (that is, not in parallel), you do not have to make any technical settings.

Logs

The job log records status information and any errors that occur during the program run. You can make the following additional settings for the application log:

·        Via a specification in the field Problem Class, you determine the importance that a message must have to be output in the application log. For production, SAP recommends class 2, for testing, class 4:

¡        Very important (1)

¡        Important (2)

¡        Average (3)

¡        Additional information (4)

·        The expiry date specifies the earliest date on which the log expires. It can also influence the event in which the log is deleted. This is particularly relevant because from the application log, you can schedule jobs, and delete logs where the expiry date has been reached from the database.

·        The Delete before Expiry Date indicator prevents the log from being deleted before the expiry date specified.

Choose the log you require.

Function

Meaning

What needs to be done?

Display/Change

Information or completion of parameters

Choose whether you want to display or change the program run.

Copy

Copy the parameters of a program run

Specify a name for the program run that you created using the copy function.

Adjust

Move the run parameters of a program run by n days.
This function is not supported in all applications.

Schedule

Defines when the run is to be started

Enter the start date and time, or set the Start Immediately indicator.

End Early

Terminates a run
This means that if the program is running, once the current interval has been processed, all jobs are terminated from this command.

Restart Run

Restarts runs that have been stopped.

Delete

Deletion of a program run
All parameters of the program run are deleted. If the program run has already been scheduled or started, it cannot be deleted.

Deactivate Old Runs

You can use this function to exclude runs that are no longer required from the display of the input help. To remove the data from the database permanently, in the menu of the mass activity, choose Program Run ® Delete, or in the SAP menu, Periodic Processing ® Administration of Mass Processing ® Delete Parameter Records.

Environment

Depending on the application area, enables you to navigate to other transactions.

Special Features for Creating Correspondence

Date and periods

Defines which correspondence is created. The system only creates correspondence for a selected period (for example, correspondence to be created each week or all account statements for July). The correspondence variants are compared in the contract account master record.
The system can create a proposal for the selection.

Specify the frequency required.

Number of spool requests

In the correspondence print run, you can summarize the spool requests at job level and thereby drastically reduce the number of spool requests.

In the Implementation Guide for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, set the indicator Spool Aggregation at Job Level Required, under Technical Settings ® Activate Performance Improvement for Mass Runs.
In the correspondence print run, you can overwrite this indicator by setting the indicator New Spool Request on the tab page Print Parameters under Output Device (). This results in maximum summarization at interval level.