jobs at OS level..

[Former Member]

How to schedule background jobs at OS level?

[Former Member]

Hi

Each job requires a background process and a job may consist of one more steps

You have to chose from the following

1)ABAP program/with or with variant

2)External command

3)External program

External command: These commands are used to execute certain functionality in the system,

External Program: When it requires a program in the external system we can use this facility. We need to specify the program, parameter and target host . Sap xpg is the executable which will run the external program

Regards

Bhaskar

[Former Member]

hello sir we can execute back ground jobs in OS level means back up and database copy some of listed external commands and external programs which are listed in SM49 and SM69 tcodes

[nelis]

Hi Ashwini,

SAP uses 'sapxpg' to execute background OS level commands or 'sapevt'(as already mentioned) depending on the circumstances.

SAP differenciates between an "External command" and an "External program" which you create as a step when defining a job in SM36. "External command" you can define in SAP using SM69 and you need specific authorizations to execute, "External program" is not protected by authorizations(which is potentially a lot less secure) and is generally executed by system administrators only.

Regards,

Nelis

[markus_doehr2]

you can use "sapevt".

Markus