Batch Jobs

[former_member208541]

How to create batch jobs to automate a process. support i want to automate the creation of delivery. How to do it. What are variants in batch jobs and how to create them.

regards

sachin

[Former Member]

Hi

Go to SM36, give the batch job name, in start date field you can specify the date and time and in steps you can give the program name responsible for creating the delivery and the variant that is created and maintained in SE38.

A set of input data can be saved in a variant for a program in SE38. If you want the delivery to be run for a particular order type or material or customers, all these preset datas can be maintained in the variant.

[former_member335292]

Hi Sachin,

To create a new batch job you can go to transaction Sm36,wherein you can define the job name,job class and target server..then you can go to start condition and select whether it is a periodic job,or immediate job and accordingly you can schedule the job..Also the very important thing is in the Step funtion you should have valid ABAP program or any external program which should be used at the background...

If you know the program then you can go to SE38 and create a variant for that program which can be later used in the newly created job.You can also copy an existing job and modify it according to the requirement by checking the job details in SM37.

Just to summarise the Key transactions are : SM36 and SE38.

Hope this info has been useful.

Rgds,

Aram K.