Background jobs don't start

[Former Member]

Hello,

i have a problem. Whenever a background job should start e.g. EU_REORG or own background jobs, the jobs last in status released for hours and never start. So I have many similar jobs, which have not started and a continuous increasing delay.

What could that be? I'm using a R/3 4.7 110 with 620 Kernel.

Thanks

Frank

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Frank,

OK, something has happened in the past to cause this build up of jobs in the queue but I'm not sure what.

If the majority of the waiting jobs have a particular name, I would filter the released ones for these particular jobs in the SM37 display, select all, and delete all but one of them from the system. This should leave the newest released one to execute.

Regards,

Gary

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Gary,

i will try it thanks for your help. I have found the one "bad job". It was a SWEQSRV Job.

Regards,

Frank

[Former Member]

Hi Frank,

Do you have a large number of jobs prefixed ARFC ?

Regards,

Gary

[Former Member]

Hi Gary,

no just a large number of EU_REORG and PUT, RDDIMPDP (i think the most) and some others.

Regards,

Frank

[Former Member]

Hi Frank,

Some things that you could check;

1) SM65 to see if the server is configured correctly

2) There are BGD processes available

3) SM61 to see that the time-driven scheduler is active

4) SM37 to see if there is a large queue of released jobs

Let me know the outcome of the above checks.

Regards,

Gary

[Former Member]

Hi Gary,

check 1, 2 and 3 are correctly. But the queue of released jobs is very large. Does it mean i have to cancel all of them and reschedule them? Mmmmhh it's quite a work, but when it helps to solve the problem.

Thanks