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The time zones feature of SAP CPS makes it easy to manage scheduler environments that span multiple time zones. For example, assume there is an office in London. High-load jobs need to be scheduled to run on the server in New York. These jobs run in the night in New York so that the extra server load does not affect the people in the New York office. The job can be submitted to start at 01:00 (ie. 1am) in the New York time zone and the time offset of London to New York does not need to be calculated. Daylight saving times can be hard to remember, especially when you have to manage multiple timezones on different parts of the globe. SAP CPS now displays Daylight saving time alongside the offset to help you understand the current offset.

The time zone of a job is the time zone specified in the submit wizard. When the job was submitted from RedwoodScript, without specific time zone, the central server time zone is used for the job time zone.

Note Note

The SAP CPS central server uses the time zone information from the JVM. This data needs to be kept up-to-date for all time zones you use. This is especially true for Daylight Saving Times, which have been changed in various countries in the last years.

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Olson Time Zones

SAP CPS uses the Olson timezone format. All time and date calculations are done in the context of a timezone. In most cases this timezone is either simply the session timezone or an explicitly provided timezone.

Arthur Olson started the "America/New York" style timezone definitions that were first put into BSD 4.3. Most if not all Unices now support this style. The official term for them is the http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm. The time zones are publicly stored at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub and regularly updated. The Olson time zone definitions are a standard reference on what times were historically for the last hundred years.

Time zones are part of the Environment section in the navigation bar. The time zones available are loaded directly from the Java Time Zone database when SAP CPS is installed.

Actions

Time zones support the following actions:

Action

Description

Edit

Edit the time zone

Delete

Delete the time zone

Expand All

Expand all time zones in the current filter

Filter > New Filter

Create a new time zone filter

Filter > Edit Filter

Edit current time zone filter

Filter > Delete

Delete current time zone filter

It is only possible to edit the description of a time zone (which is used in preference to the name for display purposes). It is not possible to edit any of the other attributes.

Finding Time Zones

You can search for time zones using filters and the Search Time Zones box on the Time Zones tab. This box is known as the intelliSearch box and located under your username on the top right-hand side of the user interface. Filters allow you to specify a list of objects with static criteria. IntelliSearch allows you to specify complex queries in a simple way using prefixes. Prefixes are used to specify which property you are searching in and have short and long syntaxes. For example, if you want to display all time zones with the term import in the comment, you would use the search criteria as follows:

c:import

You can search more than one property, as follows:

c:import n:Bi

Note Note

No spaces should be entered before or after the colon (:).

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See the Advanced Object Search for more information.

The following table illustrates the available prefixes for time zones:

Prefixes

Description

n, name

searches the name property

c, com, comment

searches the comment property

d, desc, description

searches the description property

Procedure

  1. Choose   Environment → Time Zones   and choose a time zone.

  2. From the context menu, choose Edit.

  3. Enter a description and comment.

  4. Choose Save and Close to save the time zone.

Time Zone

  • Name - The name of the time zone.

  • Description - The description of the time zone.

  • Comment - A comment about the time zone.

Example

  1. Choose   Environment → Time Zones   and select the Europe/Berlin time zone.

  2. From the context menu, choose Edit.

  3. Enter Europe/Walldorf as description.

  4. Choose Save and Close to save the time zone.