Managing Jobs from the Job Overview

The Job Overview, or Job Maintenance, screen is the single, central area for completing a wide range of tasks related to monitoring and managing jobs, including defining jobs; scheduling, rescheduling, and copying existing jobs; rescheduling and editing jobs and job steps; repeating a job; debugging an active job; reviewing information about a job; canceling a job's release status; canceling and deleting jobs; comparing the specifications of several jobs; checking the status of jobs; reviewing job logs; and releasing a job so it can run.

Procedures

Specifying Jobs

1. To display the Job Overview screen, choose CCMS ® Jobs ® Maintenance or call Transaction SM37. Before entering the Job Overview screen, the system first displays the Select Background Jobs screen, where you must select the criteria for the jobs you want to manage. These criteria include:

• Job name (which can contain a wildcard (*) to select jobs with related names or—by using the wildcard alone—any job). Required.
• Name of the user who scheduled the job (the wildcard is allowed here as well). Required.
• Job status
• Planned or actual start time of the job.
• Job
start condition or event linked to the start condition
• 
  
Job step
• When and how often the job runs, or "
periodicity"

2. You can also choose Extended Job Selection, where you can more precisely define the specific criteria that determine which jobs to select. If you have administrator
Authorizations for Background Processing, you can display jobs in all clients. Without this authorization, only jobs in the client that you are logged on to will be displayed.

3. Once you have set the criteria for you job selection, choose Execute.

Managing and Monitoring Jobs

Once you have called the Job Overview screen (Transaction SM37 or CCMS ® Jobs ® Maintenance) and selected which jobs you want to manage as described above, you can choose from a wide range of management tasks.

To copy a single existing job, choose Job ® Copy.

To reschedule or edit job steps or attributes of a single job, choose Job ® Change. A job step is an independent unit of work within a background job. Each job step can execute an ABAP or external program. Other variants or authorizations may be used for each job step. The system allows you to display ABAP programs and variants. You can scan a program for syntax errors. You can also display the authorizations for an authorized user of an ABAP job step.

To repeat a single job, choose Job ® Repeat scheduling.

To debug an active job, choose Job ® Capture: active job. Only a single selection is allowed. If an active job seems to be running incorrectly (e.g., running for an excessively long time), you can interrupt and analyze it in debugging mode in a background process, and then either release it again or stop it altogether.

You will be able to capture a background job only if you are logged on to the SAP server on which the job is running. To find server information in the Job Overview, select and mark the job, then choose Job ® Job details.

To review information about a job, choose Job ® Job details. Details displayed can include:

• current
job status
• 
  
periodicity, or the repetition interval
• other jobs linked to the current job, either as previous or subsequent jobs
• defined
job steps
• spool requests generated by the current job

To cancel a job's "Released" status, select the job or jobs from the Job Overview list and choose Job ® Release -> Scheduled.

To cancel a job from running but keep the job definition available, select the job or jobs from the Job Overview list and choose Job ® Cancel active job.

To delete a job entirely, select the job or jobs from the Job Overview list and choose Job ® Delete. Jobs with the status of Ready or Running cannot be deleted.

To compare the specifications of more than one job, select the jobs from the Job Overview list and choose Job ® Compare jobs.

To check the status of jobs, select the job or jobs from the Overview Job list and choose Job ® Check status. This allows you to either change the job status back to Planned or cancel the job altogether. This is especially useful when a job has malfunctioned.

To review job logs, select a job or jobs with the status Completed or Canceled from the Job Overview list and choose Goto ® Job log.

To release a job so it can run, select a job from the Job Overview list and choose Goto ® Release.