BTC JOBS ,EXTERNAL COMMANDS.

[former_member706808]

Hello Guru's

I was going through the documents related to the BTC jobs and wondered how EXTERNAL COMMANDS and EXTERNAL PROGRAMS actually help.

can someone explain about them?

[Former Member]

Hi,

One example why some times OS level program is required is for doing FTP. From any ABAP program when you want to transfer files from one server to other server, you can call a sftp script which resides in OS level. For that you can create command in sm69 and give path of script.

[Sriram2009]

Hi

could you check this link

Prerequisites for Running External Programs - Background Processing - SAP Library

Background Work Processes Explained (SAP Library - Background Processing)

Regards

[former_member188883]

Hi Sri,

You can have some OS level commands schedule using batch jobs and send out details every day via email.

For eg: Capture the file system size using df -k command on Unix and send the details via email

This is execution of external command using SAP. Sending of email is an additional feature explained by me.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Deepak Kori