How to Schedule SAP background job at OS Level

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Can Anyone tell me how to Schedule SAP background job at OS Level (unix).

Regards,

Anil

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

This is not possible by default.

SAP has an own scheduler that is running in ABAP.

You can, however, schedule a program at OS level and use that program to logon to the system to "do something".

What is your requirement?

Markus

[Former Member]

Hi Anil,

I donu2019t know your requirements, anyway itu2019s possible to setup your SAP job in order to start after an event, and after that you can get the event triggered from the Operating System in the following way:

- log into you Operating System with the SIDadm user id (at the Operating System level) and go to directory /usr/sap/SID/SYS/exe/run

- Run the SAPEVT executable as follows:

sapevt YOUR_EVENT -t pf=/usr/sap/SID/SYS/profile/DEV_DVEBMGS00_server001 nr=01

This will raise the event, and cause the job scheduled within SAP to execute.

You can periodically execute this job with crontab.

Thanks,

Federico Biavati