SAP Background Job: How's it Running?

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Kirk Burleson picture Kirk Burleson · Sep 17, 2009 · Viewed 7.6k times · Source

I have to move an SAP background job (ABAP report for A/P) into Cronacle and can't figure out how to stop the job in SAP so I can start running it with the Cronacle schedule.

The job runs in SAP from user SAPSYS every morning at 7:15am, but if you look it up with sm37 there is no time scheduled for it and it's not triggered by an event; also, it's status is SCHEDULED.

I had our Cronacle team search by job number but they couldn't find any scripts pointing to that job. If you look at the finished job it shows that it's scheduled daily for 7:15am. Also, there is no predecessor or successor jobs listed. Is it possible it's being started from another job? How do I find out without deleting this one?

Answer

Igal Serban picture Igal Serban · Sep 17, 2009

Some suggestion.

  1. If you don't want to delete the scheduled job. try to rename it, and see if it still runs.
  2. Make sure that the users you are using for sm37 has full authorization for the backround administration.
  3. A previous job can schedule and release and create and whatever a new job. Look at what is running before the problematic job.
  4. Look deeply at the dev traces. They somtimes hints about what is going on in the system.

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