Event History

Definition

Event history (EH) is a log of all the events matching certain criteria that were raised, received and processed in the system. EH lists all raised events whether or not they are defined in the system or are processed by the event scheduler.

Event history is available from transaction SM62. To access event history, you need batch administration authority (authorization object S_BTCH_ADM with ID BTCADMIN = Y).

Use

EH can be used for the following purposes:

●      You can verify that an event was actually raised or received in the system and also check event-related information.

●      You can check whether the event was processed by the event scheduler. In this way, EH serves as a hard copy of the event scheduler’s actions.

●      Event history enables external schedulers to consume events that are raised in the system. EH is available to external schedulers through the XBP 3.0 API.

Integration

Event history serves as a point of integration between SAP systems and external schedulers for event-based triggering of jobs. On the one hand, it stores all events raised or received in the system, and on the other it allows external schedulers to read and use those events as the figure below shows.

Event history shows a status of events that distinguishes between events which were marked as read by an external scheduler, and events which were not. For more information, see Event Status.

 

See also:

Checking the Log of Raised Events