Batch-Job SY-BATCH

[balu99]

Hi Friends,
I have Question ,

1) I had created a report and set batch job for that , batch-job run daily at 08:40 am. When i execute the report, in the output it should show that which batch-job had run i.e Foreground/Background.

I had written a logic , but it was showing Foreground when report was executed.
IF SY-BATCH = 'X'.
WRITE: 'BACKGROUND'.
ELSE.
WRITE: 'FOREGROUND'.
ENDIF.

2) While Batch-job is running , Does my system need to should active at that time ?

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[touzik_itc]

Some code can be executed in a dialog process instead of batch process, if it is scheduled as a job. SY-BATCH is set in a batch process only. In particular

CALL FUNCTION func STARTING NEW TASK task DESTINATION IN GROUP

uses dialog processes.

[TamasFodor]

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[Sandra_Rossi · Accepted solution]

If you have created a very simple executable program (A.K.A. "report") as below, activated it, submitted it as a "background job", that you can see in SM37, then it should generate a spool request with content "BACKGROUND".

REPORT zprogram.
IF SY-BATCH = 'X'.
  WRITE: 'BACKGROUND'.
ELSE.
  WRITE: 'FOREGROUND'.
ENDIF.

If not, you are not in the exact situation described above.