Viewing Job Definitions 

Use

You use the Job Definitions screen area to browse job definitions available on the application server and to display detailed information about a definition and its parameters.

 

To display job definitions, in the SAP NetWeaver Scheduler for Java, choose the Job Definitions tab.

Prerequisites

You have started Java Scheduler.

Procedure

Browsing Job Definitions

You use the Job Definitions screen area to display a list of all definitions that are currently available on the server. To update that list, choose the Refresh pushbutton. You can also use the standard filtering function to filter the list of job definitions.

For each definition there is the following information:

●      The name on the job definition.

●      The name of the application that contains that definition.

Displaying Detailed Information

When you select a job definition in the Job Definition screen area, detailed information about the job and its parameters appears.

●      When you select the Info tab, the following information is available:

Filed	Meaning
Job Name	The name of the job taken from the job-definition.xml
Job Type	The type of the job. For example, 0 stands for job from MessageDrivenBean.
Application Name	The name of the application with which the job is deployed.
Retention Period	The retention period determines the number of days for which the job logs are persisted in the database.
Description	The description of the job definition.

●      When you select the Parameters tab, a list of all parameters that are required to carry out the job appears.

For each parameter, the following information is available:

Column	Meaning
Name	Name of the parameter.
Type	The data type of the parameter.
Required	The checkbox indicates if the parameter is required to perform the job.
Direction	Indicates if the parameter is incoming or outgoing.
Default Value	Contains the default value of the parameter if it is defined.
Description	The description of the job definition taken from the job-definition.xml
Group	The group to which this job parameter belongs, taken from the job-definition.xml

 

The Parameters tab contains read-only fields. You can specify concrete values for the parameters when you create a task.

More information: Creating a Scheduler Task.