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Procedure documentationGeneral Tab Page

 

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

Procedure

  1. Enter a unique name for your job documentation.

  2. Optionally, you can enter a tag or select a tag that has been used already. Tags provide a simple way to label job requests and job documentation. You can search for tagged objects using Quick Criteria Maintenance and the Quick Search box.

  3. Select the job type.

    The job type selection enables the system to launch the right applications for scheduling and configuring monitoring for the job from the Systems Tab Page.

    If the scheduling is managed with an SMSE-certified external job scheduler, choose the External Scheduler check box.

    Note Note

    The SAP Scheduler only supports scheduling of ABAP jobs and BW Process Chains.

    If you use an external scheduler, you can schedule other types of jobs from job documentation, including SAP BusinessObjects jobs and SAP Data Services jobs.

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  4. Choose a documentation status.

  5. 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.

  6. Describe the job. Specify the tasks which the job performs. You can also provide text descriptions of the scheduling and monitoring requirements.

  7. 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.

      Note Note

      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.

  8. Create further steps, if required.

    Note Note

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

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  9. 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:

      1. Choose a link in the Parameter/Variant column.

      2. 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.

  10. Save your entries.

Note Note

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

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