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Sap Solution Manager Job Scheduling Management

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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:

      This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

      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.

Sap Solution Manager Job Scheduling Management

Source: https://help.sap.com/saphelp_snc70/helpdata/en/c5/7edcbd58ce4e29bc1baf1c4761d71f/content.htm