Standard Jobs in SAP

Standard Jobs 

Standard jobs are those background jobs that should be run regularly in a production SAP System. These jobs are usually jobs that clean up parts of the system, such as by deleting old spool requests.

Use

As of Release 4.6C, the Job Definition transaction ( SM36 ) provides a list of important standard jobs, which you can schedule, monitor, and edit.

Features

SAP delivers the following standard jobs including recommended variants and job intervals:

Job name	Report name	Info
SAP_CCMS_MONI_BATCH_DP	RSAL_BATCH_TOOL_DISPATCHING	Dispatches monitoring architecture methods
SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_JOBSTATISTIC	RSBPCOLL	Generates runtime statistics for background jobs
SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_PERFMONITOR	RSCOLL00	Collects data for the performance monitor
SAP_REORG_ABAPDUMPS	RSSNAPDL	Deletes old ABAP short dumps
SAP_REORG_BATCHINPUT	RSBDCREO	Deletes old batch input sessions
SAP_REORG_JOBS	RSBTCDEL	Deletes old background jobs
SAP_REORG_JOBSTATISTIC	RSBPSTDE	Deletes old data from the job runtime statistics
SAP_REORG_SPOOL	RSPO0041	Deletes old spool data
SAP_REORG_UPDATERECORDS	RSM13002	Deletes old update requests
SAP_REORG_XMILOG	RSXMILOGREORG	Deletes XMI logs

Activities

You can use the functions to:

Monitor the Status of Scheduled Standard Jobs

Schedule Standard Jobs

Define New Standard Jobs

 For more information about standard jobs, see SAP Note 16083.

Standard Jobs 

Standard jobs are those background jobs that should be run regularly in a production SAP System. These jobs are usually jobs that clean up parts of the system, such as by deleting old spool requests.

Use

As of Release 4.6C, the Job Definition transaction ( SM36 ) provides a list of important standard jobs, which you can schedule, monitor, and edit.

Features

SAP delivers the following standard jobs including recommended variants and job intervals:

Job name	Report name	Info
SAP_CCMS_MONI_BATCH_DP	RSAL_BATCH_TOOL_DISPATCHING	Dispatches monitoring architecture methods
SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_JOBSTATISTIC	RSBPCOLL	Generates runtime statistics for background jobs
SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_PERFMONITOR	RSCOLL00	Collects data for the performance monitor
SAP_REORG_ABAPDUMPS	RSSNAPDL	Deletes old ABAP short dumps
SAP_REORG_BATCHINPUT	RSBDCREO	Deletes old batch input sessions
SAP_REORG_JOBS	RSBTCDEL	Deletes old background jobs
SAP_REORG_JOBSTATISTIC	RSBPSTDE	Deletes old data from the job runtime statistics
SAP_REORG_SPOOL	RSPO0041	Deletes old spool data
SAP_REORG_UPDATERECORDS	RSM13002	Deletes old update requests
SAP_REORG_XMILOG	RSXMILOGREORG	Deletes XMI logs

Activities

You can use the functions to:

Monitor the Status of Scheduled Standard Jobs

Overview of Standard Jobs 
Definition
The status overview of standard jobs displays all jobs with status Scheduled, Finished, Canceled, Ready, or Active.
For canceled and finished jobs, only the latest of each is displayed.
Scheduling Standard Jobs 
Prerequisites
Before a standard job can run, you must schedule the job.
Procedure
If you want to schedule all the standard jobs, choose Default scheduling. The system schedules all standard jobs that are defined in table REORGJOBS along with their specified variants and intervals.
If other jobs exist that execute the programs contained in the standard jobs, the system displays a message.
To schedule the individual jobs, choose a job using the Possible entries help and enter the job interval. Save your entries.
Result
The saved job along with its status appear in the overview of standard jobs.
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Defining New Standard Jobs 
Use

To define a new standard job that is not contained in table REORGJOBS, proceed as follows:

Procedure

1. Choose Predefine new job.
2. Enter the required data.
3. Save the definition.

Result

You can now schedule the new standard job.

Prerequisites
Before a standard job can run, you must schedule the job.
Procedure
If you want to schedule all the standard jobs, choose Default scheduling. The system schedules all standard jobs that are defined in table REORGJOBS along with their specified variants and intervals.
If other jobs exist that execute the programs contained in the standard jobs, the system displays a message.
To schedule the individual jobs, choose a job using the Possible entries help and enter the job interval. Save your entries.
Result
The saved job along with its status appear in the overview of standard jobs.

For more information about standard jobs, see SAP Note 16083.