Hung background job

[Former Member]

User started a background job 1hr before offline backup started. Now background job in SM37 shows status as active BUT when I tried to cancel job, popup message said "Job is not Active - cancellation not possible!". So next, I decided to delete job, message said "job is active. The selected function cannot be performed". In SM50, I cannot find any BGD process being used.

So, user has started new job today and that job is for sure running because it is using process type BGD.

How to I get rid of the 1st job??

Thanks;

Huda

[Former Member]

hi,

I think you already cancelled the job in SM37 and tries to cancel it mulitple times thats y it is showing job is not active.

Ok regarding the SM50, if you are not seeing any background job in SM50 that means job got cancelled already don't worry about it. It will not get updated so quickly in SM37 but I am sure that it got cancelled.

go to SM51 and check there also is there any sessions with you user id?

[Former Member]

in sm37, job status is still active. I wish it is not. I have done delete/cancel job like 2 hrs ago. I would think by now sm37 would catch up with the status. What do U think?

[Former Member]

Place the cursor on the job that was terminated. Hit CtrlShiftF12. Hopefully that will change the job status on SM37 display.

[Former Member]

It worked. THANK U !!