Variants for background jobs

[Former Member]

You need to schedule and automate batch jobs in an organisation. There will be multiple variants and multiple steps within same batch jobs. The variants are date dependent and needs to change every day. You need to automatically change the variants every day and schedule the jobs. Also check for the failures in the jobs. Apart from that Once the jobs in one server example : R/3 server ends the jobs in BW servers should be triggered automatically. Explain all steps with proper T codes and also provide a dry run example. Also provide all the table used for the variants purpose.

Please help on this,thanks

Narendra

[Former Member]

Hi Narendra,

The background jobs are scheduled depending on the requirement with specific variants which are both date specific and even specific sometimes. These variants are created for the programs or reports which are run in the background job ,These variants are stored in VARID table for client specific variants and

VARID_CI for client independent. For most of the times all these jobs are maintained in some job scheduling tools so that they automatically inform about job failures and processes can be automated.In our organisation we use UC4 for background job schedulign and it controls the process as you are looking for.

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Junaid

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muhammed junaid

[Former Member]

Hi,

Since you required different variants running on daily basis, you can schedule the different jobs as per the day basis, by giving appropriate name & internall scheduled them, as per your need.

For checking the failures, you may use Third party tool like Control M Scheduling, which does the job of scheduling the job & Monitoring it too, by which if any job abends then it will report to you immediately.

You can use sm36 & sm37 for scheduling & monitoring (Updating ) the job respectively.

TBTCP is table related with storage of batch jobs programs & variants.

Let me know, if you need any more info.

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Thanks,

Anand.