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API for scheduling background jobs

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Former Member

‎2008 Apr 02 11:50 AM

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Hello friends,

What is the API provided by R/3 to schedule background jobs, apart from the internal transactions, sm36 ?

regards,

Tanmay.

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Former Member

‎2008 Apr 02 12:10 PM

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Hi,

There are FMs to create and schedule jobs instead of manually going to transaction SM36.

JOB_OPEN (create a job)

JOB_SUBMIT (attach program to be scheduled and set other scheduling parameters)

JOB_CLOSE (finally release it for use)

Hope your question is answered...

Regards, Tapas

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Sm1tje
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‎2008 Apr 02 12:06 PM

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Look at function modules from function group BTCH.

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Former Member

‎2008 Apr 02 12:10 PM

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Hi,

There are FMs to create and schedule jobs instead of manually going to transaction SM36.

JOB_OPEN (create a job)

JOB_SUBMIT (attach program to be scheduled and set other scheduling parameters)

JOB_CLOSE (finally release it for use)

Hope your question is answered...

Regards, Tapas

<Pls reward if useful or answered>