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Forcing or defaulting program to background

Former Member — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:11:59 GMT

I have a question regarding the possibility to force or default a SAP standard application execution to being a background execution.

It is possible to chose execute in background from the menu in a selection screen (F9) as an altenative to direct processing (F8).

Is it possible to make this the default execution mode without having to do a modification of a SAP standard application?

Thank you in advance

Re: Forcing or defaulting program to background

jayanthi_jayaraman — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:20:12 GMT

Hi,

Just try this.

In this,I want to schedule the program to execute in background dynamically.

I have two programs ztest1 and ztest2.

The user will execute program ztest1 and the user wants that

ztest2 program should be automatically scheduled in the background.

Use job_open, job_close & submit

ZTEST1

CALL FUNCTION 'JOB_OPEN'

EXPORTING

jobname = jobname

IMPORTING

jobcount = jobcount

EXCEPTIONS

cant_create_job = 1

invalid_job_data = 2

jobname_missing = 3

OTHERS = 4.

IF sy-subrc <> 0.

MESSAGE ID sy-msgid TYPE sy-msgty NUMBER sy-msgno

WITH sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4.

ENDIF.

SUBMIT ZTEST2 AND RETURN

USER sy-uname VIA JOB jobname

NUMBER jobcount

with p_zcycle = pzcycle

WITH p_area = wa_record-area.

CALL FUNCTION 'JOB_CLOSE'

EXPORTING

jobcount = jobcount

jobname = jobname

strtimmed = 'X'

EXCEPTIONS

cant_start_immediate = 1

invalid_startdate = 2

jobname_missing = 3

job_close_failed = 4

job_nosteps = 5

job_notex = 6

lock_failed = 7

OTHERS = 8.

IF sy-subrc <> 0.

MESSAGE ID sy-msgid TYPE sy-msgty NUMBER sy-msgno

WITH sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4.

ENDIF.

Re: Forcing or defaulting program to background

Former Member — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:22:48 GMT

Please note, that I'm talking about a SAP standard application where I do not want to make any modifications and another criteria is that the user must still be able to use the standard selection screen for inputting search criteria and other inputs.

Re: Forcing or defaulting program to background

andreas_mann3 — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:07:54 GMT

Hi Michael,

i think you're looking for fm <b>K_BATCH_REQUEST</b>

regards Andreas

Re: Forcing or defaulting program to background

Former Member — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:24:07 GMT

Unfortunately I have not found a solution where I do not need to make any modifications, but I have found a fairly easy approach with a modification.

I'm going to modify the program in question, the modification is going to be that I'll dynamically modify the GUI status of the standard selection screen, so that the default execute function code is going to be SJOB instead of ONLI. This does require a modification of the program but is very simple and should be easy to handle in an update situation.

Re: Forcing or defaulting program to background

Former Member — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:37:06 GMT

Hi Michael,

Now that you have found a solution to this problem, can you mark this thread as answered by choosing the option "Solved it on my own". ? You may also want to reward the answers given if they have been helpful to you.

regards,

Anand Mandalika.