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Ghost SAP JOB Executions

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Hi,

I would like to know if there's any explanation to the following problem: I execute the SAP job only once, but in SAP GUI there are four executions. I would like to know why there are many executions even though I executed the job only once?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

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BaerbelWinkler
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James - does your program perhaps call an SAP standard routine which in turn triggers multiple executions of the program in parallel processing on more than one server?

What might help is to add a few fields to the SM37 list:

That way, you'll be able to tell if - for whatever reason - multiple work processes get triggered and/or which servers are involved.

Hope this helps!

Bärbel

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Thank you Bärbel, very helpful comment.

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Thanks for the reply, Colleen.

It's a custom generated program, but it occurs with any job I run, though not frequently. The problem happens regardless of whether or not the job and its variant are the same.

I know it's very difficult to pinpoint the problem, but in general, do you happen to know when it tends to happen? Have you ever had a similar problem? And if so, how did you go about fixing it?

Thanks in advance

raymond_giuseppi
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Check in table TBTCO, are there one or four records for this job name/user name at this date/time, If 4, then your assertion is false, else if 1 there is a bug in the tool used for reporting...

How is the job scheduled,

  1. Raising an event used by a periodic by event job
  2. Submit between job_open/job_close, did you check if the job is already created (*), in this case do you wait til database udpated

(*) status: released, ready, running

Colleen
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which job/program are you executing? Does it occur with a specific job or any job that you run?

Is the job steps and variant the same?