General Tab Page

The General tab page contains descriptive information about the job and its steps.

Procedure

Enter a unique name for your job documentation.

Select the interface and job type.

The interface and job type entries enable the system to launch the right applications for scheduling and configuring monitoring for the job from the Systems Tab Page. In most cases, the job type is entered automatically based on the selected interface, and cannot be changed. If you chose the SMSE interface, you must specify the job type.

Interface	Description
BC-XBP	Internal SAP scheduler interface
BW-SCH	SAP BW system's technical interface for managing process chains
Data Services	Virtual interface to represent the job scheduling tool of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services Note Cannot be used to communicate with the remote system. Scheduling is not supported for this interface type. End of the note.
SBOP	Virtual interface to represent background job management tool of SAP BusinessObjects Note Cannot be used to communicate with the remote system. Scheduling is not supported for this interface type. End of the note.
SMSE	Interface used by external scheduling tools such as SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood

Choose a documentation status.
For Valid until, you can specify a date after which the job documentation (and its jobs) should be checked. The date is displayed in the Expiration Date column of the job documentation list. It does not cause any automatic activities to occur, such as stopping a job.
Describe the job. Specify the tasks which the job performs. You can also provide text descriptions of the scheduling and monitoring requirements.
To add a step, choose Add.
A dialog box appears.
1. Enter a description of the job step.
2. Select the type. The types you can choose depend on the scheduler selected.
3. Enter the program name (for example the name of the ABAP report) under Command.
4. You can specify, for example, the ABAP report variant under Parameter.
  
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  The Client-Dependent check box is for documentation purposes only. You can use it to indicate if a job works on client-specific or on client-independent data.
  
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5. Save your entries.
  The step appears in the table, with your data.
Create further steps, if required.

Note
If you have selected the BC-XBP scheduler, you can document more than one step per job.

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You can edit the steps in the table as follows:
- If you have created a step that executes an ABAP report and have created a variant of the report, you can display the parameters of the variant. To do so, follow these steps:
  - SAP scheduler (BC-XBP interface)
    
    Choose Variant Display .
    Choose Find.
  - External scheduler (SMSE interface)
    
    Choose a link in the Parameter/Variant column.
    Choose Find.
- To change the order of the steps to be performed:
  1. Select the step in the table.
  2. Select Up or Down in the context menu.
- To edit a step:
  1. Select the step in the table.
  2. Choose Edit.
    You go to a dialog box in which you can make your changes.
  3. Save your entries.
- To remove a step:
  1. Select the step.
  2. Choose Remove.
    You go to a dialog box.
  3. Confirm with Remove.
Save your entries.

Note Note

To schedule the job or activate job monitoring, use the Systems Tab Page.

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