Job Scheduling Management

This component implements the Job Scheduling Management standard. The Job Scheduling Management standard is one of 16 SAP standards for optimal business operation.

The Job Scheduling Management component enables you to do the following:

Overview and control all jobs of your system environment that are running in the background:
- Central and complete job documentation
- Management of jobs using, for example, the following standardized workflow:
  
  Standardized Workflow for Managing Jobs
Schedule jobs:
- You can import jobs from systems connected using SAP Solution Manager into job documentation.
- You can import jobs from job documentation into systems connected using SAP Solution Manager.
Automatic job monitoring in the business process context:
- You can monitor jobs and see in the analyses to which business processes and business process steps the job belongs.

Additional information about the Job Scheduling Management standard is available under http://service.sap.com/supportofferings SAP Support Offerings Support Standards Media Library Job Scheduling Management .

Implementation Considerations

You have made the required settings in SAP Solution Manager Customizing, under Scenario-Specific Settings .

To use the application optimally, edit the following data:

Job documentation is the central object of the Job Scheduling Management standard and enables you to centrally record and manage jobs in the SAP Solution Manager system.
Add the solutions for the background processing business processes to Solution Landscape Maintenance in SAP Solution Manager. For more information, see Define Solutions in the Solution Directory.
Add the solutions for the relevant background processing business processes to Solution Landscape Maintenance (SMSY) in SAP Solution Manager .
Configure business process monitoring for relevant business processes and business process steps in the corresponding solutions in the SAP Solution Manager. For more information, see Business Process Monitoring.

Features

SAP Solution Manager Job Scheduling Management provides:

Structured job documentation of business and technical properties
- Documentation of a job and its steps
- Documentation of business process steps automated by a job and the corresponding system, using the logical component
- Documentation of business requirements and priority, and the organization responsible
- Documentation of scheduling restrictions, procedures in case of errors, as well as the required authorizations
- Documentation of contact persons and responsibilities
- Job Scheduling
  - Documentation of all job scheduling parameters, supported by the automatic data transfer from connected SAP systems
  - Scheduling of jobs (according to authorizations with or without release) centrally from the SAP Solution Manager system to connected SAP systems.
- Job monitoring (area of Business Process Monitoring)
  - Documentation of job monitoring configuration
  - Configuration of job monitoring with job documentation
    The job documentation must be assigned to a business process, and business process monitoring must be configured and active for this business process.
  - Documentation of troubleshooting procedures
  - Documentation of contact persons for scheduling, monitoring, development, and system landscape.
  - Documentation of scheduling restrictions
Job requests
End-users create requests for background processing.

For more information, see Job Request.

The implementation of Standard Job Scheduling Management is supported by the following SAP Solution Manager applications:

Job Documentation
For more information, see:
- Using the Job Documentation Overview
- Job Documentation
Job Scheduling
For more information, see:
- Scheduling Jobs with Job Documentation
  You can use this to schedule a job for which you have already created job documentation.
- Scheduling Jobs Directly
  You can use this to schedule a job without creating job documentation in advance.
Job Request
The job request is based on a Service Desk message with job and job documentation entries. For more information, see Job Request. See Service Desk for more information about the Service Desk.