How to Schedule Direct Input

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

I need your help.

I want create Account documents with FB01. I have a lot of data for that i use the Direct Input with RFBIBL00.

1- I'm creating a file in the expected format with a specific program Z.

2- For the restart mechanism, i did the necessary customizing: created a variant in FRBIBL00 and defined a job in OBDU.

3- In BMV0, i run my job.

Here i have two questions:

Q1- Manually, i can integrate a file. In first, i run my specific program to generate a file and after i run the job from BMV0 to create documents.

But, how can i do all this with automatically in chain i mean schedule a job that runs in first the specific format and after the Job in BMV0? The objective is create account documents in background with a scheduled job.

Thank you in davance.

[Former Member]

Hi Amal,

What I understand is you want to schedule a job, in such a way, it need to execute a series of programs in a chain.

It is quiet possible.

1> Go to SM36, Give a job name.

2> Go to Menu option EDIT->STEPS.

3> give the program name and variant and press the save button on the window.

4>Now you will be in STEP LIST OVERVIEW screen.

5> goto menu option step->creation, to create another step.

6> Come back to the SM36 screen and define the start condition.

7> Come back to the SM36 screen and save the job.

you can define multiple steps in one job, they execute in a sequence.

Regards,

maddy.

[Former Member]

Thank you Maddy for your answer.

Your explanation taught me how to create a chain that I didn't knew before. But my problem is slightly different.

The second step in the chain is not a program but a * job* i have a name of the job that must be exexuted after the first step.

This job is particular, it is for a direct input so even manually we can not run it directly from the SM37. We must use BMV0.

Manually, i run transaction "BMV0" and i run the Job X from one button. That is what i want to do in background by scheduling a chain.

Do you have any idea please?

[Former Member]

Hi Amal,

In that case you have to edit the start condition of the job BMV0.

First create job (Say generate_file ) to execute the customer program which generates the file.

go to the job BMV0 in edit mode and change the start condition -> after job.

key the job name(generate_file)

Regards,

Maddy.

[Former Member]

Thank you very much Maddy.

It works.