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Procedure documentationUsing the Job Scheduling Assistant

 

The job scheduling assistant supports the job planning process. It helps you fulfill business requirements while ensuring optimal utilization of system resources. You can use it to plan new jobs and to optimize scheduling of existing background jobs.

You can analyze background jobs in the system context, taking under consideration not only requirements coming from the business/functional needs, but also other activities happening on the system (for example, non-essential background jobs should not be scheduled during peak hours). Therefore the schedule needs to be optimized not only based on the number and logic of jobs, but also based on available system resources.

The job scheduling assistant provides the following metrics for your scheduling analysis:

  • CPU load on the application server/host

  • How many CPUs are available at a given point of time for the system

  • How much memory is utilized / How much memory is free

  • Number of dialog work processes that can be used in RFC call (used in parallel processing)

  • How many update requests are waiting in the queue

  • Number of background work processes available

Prerequisites

  • System monitoring has been setup for the managed system you want to schedule the job so that it will provide monitoring data which will be used to calculate system resource usage.

  • You are authorized to run the job scheduling management and schedule jobs.

  • Your browser supports HTML5.

Procedure

  1. In the Job Management work center, under Common Tasks, choose Schedule Jobs.

  2. Choose the Schedule with Help of Assistant radio button.

  3. Select a technical system client and scheduler, and then choose Next.

  4. Follow the guided procedure.