Batch program or not batch program

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

I have a general question. How do I determine where a program was initiated from, whether in a part of a job or on-line.

I have a situation where a program can be part of a job and I want to prevent two concurrent instances of the program running here. Preventing two runs of a job, ie checking for duplicate jobs is easy, however, the same program can be instantiated on-line at the same time as the job and this run of the program should not be stopped.

Is there an attribute somewhere to determine where a program was started?

Regards

Dave

[Former Member]

Hi...

Try using SY-BATCH to check Background processing of the Program...

Gaurav J.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Why dont u use sy-batch system variable to determine program from background.

regards,

suresh.

[Former Member]

To Differentiate a Online and Batch job , we have a system variable SY-BATCH using that we can find out.

if SY-BATCH = 'X' then it is Batch job. or else Online