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Process documentationJob Control for Managed Systems

 

This process automatically redirects users to SAP Solution Manager when they try to schedule or change jobs in a managed system. Job control integrates the job scheduling transactions in your managed systems with SAP Solution Manager job scheduling. This means the following:

  1. The system automatically redirects users who try to schedule or change a periodic or ad hoc job using a scheduling transaction such as SM36 or SM37 to the SAP Solution Manager Job Control Web Dynpro application.

  2. To schedule or change a periodic job, the user must submit a job request.

  3. When the job request is approved, the changes are carried out and documented in job documentation.

The job request, job documentation, and job scheduling can now be managed centrally with SAP Solution Manager.

Prerequisites

You have configured job control. For more information, see Configuring Job Control.

Process

  1. When the user starts the transaction SM36 to create a job in the managed system, the system starts a guided procedure for creating a job request in SAP Solution Manager.

  2. Depending on the job type (periodic or ad hoc), the user proceeds as follows:

    • Periodic jobs must be approved before they can be scheduled. The approval process requires the user to create a job request.

      The user plans and requests periodic jobs in the Job Control Web Dynpro application, attaching any necessary documents to the request.

    • Depending on the ad hoc job configuration settings, ad hoc jobs either need approval, or can be scheduled directly. For more information, see Ad Hoc Jobs. If ad hoc jobs can be scheduled directly, the user schedules the job using Job Control Web Dynpro application, without creating a job request.

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      By default, ad hoc jobs can be scheduled directly in the managed systems.

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  3. If there is a job request, it goes through the approval process. For more information, see Job Requests.

  4. The data in any change document is copied automatically into the job documentation that the job scheduling is based on.

  5. The job is scheduled on the basis of the job documentation.

The following figure illustrates the job control process: