As a developer, there are always more tasks to complete than you have time for in a day. While it’s important to prioritize time-sensitive, impactful or blocking issues, they’re usually not the kind of things that can be knocked off your list quickly. If you try breaking down bigger tasks into smaller subtasks, you just end up increasing the list of things that still need to get done.
Most developers hate doing things that could be automated.
Here it comes to save your time and automate boring tasks
Define and manage one-time and recurring jobs or Cloud Foundry tasks.
SAP Job Scheduling service allows you to define and manage jobs that run once or on a recurring schedule. Use this runtime-agnostic service to schedule action endpoints in your application or long-running processes using Cloud Foundry tasks. Use REST APIs to schedule jobs, including long-running jobs asynchronously, and create multiple schedule formats for simple and complex recurring schedules. Manage jobs and tasks and manage schedules with a web-based user interface.
This is available via the Pay-As-You-Go for SAP BTP and CPEA payment models, which offer usage-based pricing.
The following features are available for the SAP Job Scheduling service:
Use flexible schedule formats | Flexibly choose between cron and human-readable date formats for your schedules. |
Get secure access | Run jobs on behalf of an application secured by an OAuth 2.0 protected communication used when the service calls the action endpoint, and when the application invokes the services' REST APIs. |
Schedule synchronously or asynchronously | Define and manage jobs synchronously or asynchronously as well as run long-running CF tasks asynchronously. |
Optimize your resources usage | Run Cloud Foundry tasks asynchronously and thereby optimize your resources usage. |
App and scheduling logic separated | USE REST APIs to perform CRUD operations on jobs and schedules and to retrieve run logs of executed schedules. |
Dashboard for managing jobs and tasks | Use the web-based user interface to create, edit, or delete jobs and tasks for a service instance. Create, manage, and monitor schedules for your jobs and tasks. Check the logs to see if a schedule was executed successfully. |
Supports Node-js client libraries | Convenient client library to execute CRUD operations, including create job, from your Node.js application. |
Developers/sysadmins do a lot of repetitive tasks on a daily basis like moving a file from one folder to another or running a specific job in the area of Devops. And as for the database admin owners, they might have to take a backup of their database schema on daily basis/nightly job or even on a hourly basis. Cron jobs could come in handy at situations like these.
There are tons of use cases to mention (few of them are below)
Go to Service Marketplace > find in Search "Job"
After you selected Job Scheduling Service - click Create
update json value as mentioned and click Next and Finish
Go to Instance & Subscriptions, you will find the Service name you created and click on the Job Scheduling Service link which will redirect to your Dashboard Portal.
After you enabled, Job Scheduling Service Dashboard with first look of glance with empty Tasks.
Plan : Lite
cf create-service jobscheduler lite <instance name> -c '{"enable-xsuaa-support": true}'
Plan : Standard
cf create-service jobscheduler standard <instance name> -c '{"enable-xsuaa-support": true}'
There are 2 ways to Schedule & run the service :
manifest.yml
---
applications:
- name: commissions_pipeline
memory: 128M
disk_quota: 128M
buildpacks:
- nodejs_buildpack
command: node server.js
services:
- xsuaa_apiaccess
- jobs
server.js
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
// write your logic to execute or trigger your scenario
const port = process.env.PORT || 3000;
app.listen(port, function () {
console.log('listening');
})
package.json
{
"main": "server.js",
"dependencies": {
"express": "^4.18.1"
}
}
Run this command to deploy Cloud foundry
cf push --task
To check once if its running
cf run-task commissions_pipeline --command "npm start" --name taskfromCli
or
cf run-task commissions_pipeline --command "node server.js" --name taskfromCli
To check in logs what is executed.
cf logs commissions_pipeline --recent
Go to SAP Job Scheduling Dashboard Portal and Create a Task and Save
Select the Pattern for Schedule as per your choice of execution for your use case.
Also you can define Human readable date format ( explained below)
After you configured from above steps, you can click this Description of your Job to view Inside the schedule logs
you can go to Run Logs to check if Job is started or completed.
Job is ran successful and completed.
Go to SAP Commissions - Pipeline Workspace to see if your Pipeline is triggered and running already.
The SAP Job Scheduling service supports human-readable dates and ranges for configuring both job and task schedules.
Note:
In case you specify a certain time, note that: “SAP Job Scheduling service runs jobs in the UTC time zone“. |
References
JobScheduler RestAPIs
JobScheduler Documentation
Purchase JobScheduler SAP Store
For more information about use cases for SAP Job Scheduling service, see SAP Discovery Center
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