IBM Tivol as a schedular for SAP XI

[Former Member]

Hi All,

SAP “ technical feasibility of using IBM Tivoli as a Master scheduler for XI. Can we leverage Tivoli to schedule XI end to end jobs”

please help on this sending any reference documents

Thansk in advance.

Regards,

chandra.

[Former Member]

Hi, chandra.

As you know, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler(TWS) supports SAP R/3(Basis) jobs via the sub product known as "Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications"(It connects SAP system via RFC).

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/scheduler-apps/

And it also works for the XI(ABAP side) jobs of SM36.

So, in the following scenario,

R/3(ABAP Proxy) -> XI -> File Adapter -> B2B software to Partner

Tivoli can be used for controlling the following jobs centrally.

- kick R/3 job to run ABAP Proxy program

- run commands(scripts) to kick B2B software after file is written by F/A

Actually, in our project, we didn't need TWS to control XI jobs. We needed

R/3 side and the other end(both sides of XI but not XI itself).

But in your scenario, if you need to use XI jobs(defined in SM36), of course you can call those jobs directly via TWS(but please confirm with IBM that TWS supports WAS 6.40 with Unicode!).

i think this is why "technical feasibility of using IBM Tivoli as a Master scheduler for XI. Can we leverage Tivoli to schedule XI end to end jobs".

Best Regards.

p.s By the way, where did you find the above statement?