JSM in Solution Manager without CPS Redwood

[Former Member]

Hi SolMan experts,

I’m Nak-Woon working on Job scheduling Management initiative for an energy client in Calgary.

After completing our analysis on different probable solutions, we have decided to implement job scheduling management in SAP Solution Manager (Job management in Solution manager work center) without CPS Redwood.

Could you please provide me the implementation references for Job schedule management using SAP solution manager (without CPS Redwood)?

Appreciate your response on this. Do let me know if you need any other details on this.

Thanks,

Nak-Woon

[Former Member]

Hi Nakwoon,

This should be a helpfull document.

Links to wiki and blogs are included.

http://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700000950032011E/079_JobScheduling.pdf

Hope it helps!

Regards,

David

[Former Member]

Hi David,

Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately the document you provide me is not what I was looking for. I already have it.

The key is the fact if there is any case using Solution Manager as a job scheduler WITHOUT CPS Redwood. I wonder if some of you, SolMan experts, have this experience. If so, please share it with me. What company, why did you choose solution manager for JSM, what were the key client requirements, what was the issue and how did you resolve it...etc.

I'm trying to find out reference leveraging my network; however I haven't found anything yet.

Your help would be greately appreciated.

Thanks,

Nak-Woon

[volker_vongloeden]

Hi Nak-Woon,

one thing should be clear SAP Solution Manager is not a job scheduling tool by itself. The main purpose of JSM in SAP Solution Manager is to provide a standardized job documentation and a standardized job request process as nobody else provides it in the market. As Business Process Monitoring and its job monitoring capabilities exists since 11 years in SAP Solution Manager we created a solution where you can use every capability stand-alone but you can also use all three capabilities in an integrated manner.

Now with the job documentation we found it logical that not every customer has SAP CPS in place (although the basic version is already included in your SAP NW investment) and hence we provided the possibility to create/schedule a job from the job document application in the connected SAP system (e.g. SAP ERP). But after you created the job the whole job control is taken over locally by the SAP ERP system, so the job is controlled like any other job that you schedule locally via SM36.

The situation is different when you use a scheduler like SAP CPS. Then the whole scheduling control is with SAP CPS and SAP CPS decides when a job should run and if the appropriate event/time comes then an ad-hoc job is created and executed in the SAP ERP system.

So if you only use SAP Solution Manager and not SAP CPS, then your scheduling capabilities haven't changed in comparison to SM36 scheduling. But you have far better job documentation and hence transaprency about your job schedule. You can have the direct integration with BPMon in order to monitor your most important jobs and you can use the job request functionality to have a smooth request process as part of your IT service process.

Kind Regards

Volker

[Former Member]

Hi Volker,

Thanks for your reply.

In your response, you stated that "The main purpose of JSM in SAP Solution Manager is to provide a standardized job documentation and a standardized job request process as nobody else provides it in the market."

Does this mean even after we implement CPS Redwood, we have to use SAP Solution Manager for job request and job documentation process, as it is the only way to do that?

Secondly, as we have only SAP job scheduling with in our scope, for trouble shooting and error handling, can we still use SM36 wherein it has total control on batch jobs running in background.

After all, we can achieve:

• 80% of routine job scheduling work with SAP Solution Manager alone because usually function users/business will just create jobs and schedule it regularly.
• Remaining 20%, especially for trouble shooting in case of job failure, job interruptions they
  will look into the SM36 and shortdumps for fixing job incidents.

Does it make sense?

Thanks,

Nak-Woon

[volker_vongloeden]

Hi Nak-Woon,

SAP CPS, like any other scheduling tool, is not providing any job request by itself, but you can directly create a SolMan request out of CPS. And CPS, like any other scheduling tool, does not provide a dedicated job documentation but you only have some free text field for documentation. The share of work between SolMan and CPS was described in the following blog http://scn.sap.com/community/it-management/alm/solution-manager/blog/2009/06/10/sap-is-first-vendor-....

I am not sure if I understand your second point. Of course you can still use SM36 in order to check for cancelled jobs. But you can also troubleshoot directly within SAP CPS. And additionally you can use SolMan as some central SM36 (see http://scn.sap.com/community/it-management/alm/solution-manager/blog/2011/07/21/do-you-know-how-to-m...).

Kind Regards

Volker