Scheduling a Send Process as a Background Job

A send process should be scheduled periodically. The period should not be too short. Performance can therefore be optimized because the RFC connection is used many times (for example, every 5 minutes during busy message periods and every 15 minutes for quiet message periods). During busy message periods, the SAPconnect send processes should be distributed across various SAP application servers or all assigned to one dedicated SAP application server.

Procedure

You can schedule a send process as a background job in two ways:

·        Conventional Job Scheduling

·        Simplified Job Scheduling

 

 

Conventional Job Scheduling

 

 1.      Call transaction SCOT to start SAPconnect administration and choose View ® Jobs. 

 

  2.      Choose . 

 

  3.      Enter a job name.

 

A list of all the available variants is displayed.

 

 4.      Position the cursor on the variant that you want to start the send process with.

You can also create a new variant or change an existing variant. To do this, choose  Variant or  Variant. Proceed as described in Variant Maintenance. Then choose  to return to the list of available variants and position the cursor on the new variant.

  5.      Choose Schedule.

  6.      Specify the first date for execution.

  7.      Choose Schedule periodically.

 8.      Specify the length of the interval after which the job is to be started, for example every 5 minutes, depending on the amount of transmission activity in your system.

 9.      Choose .  

 

 Simplified Job Scheduling 

1.      Call transaction SCOT and choose Settings  ® Send Jobs or the job symbol from the toolbar.

 2.      Choose Schedule Job.

You are given a menu for the different address types (FAX, INT and so on). You use this to preselect the job name and the standard variant delivered by SAP that are to serve as a template for the job. You can still change these values in the subsequent dialog box Send Job: Select Variant.

 3.      If required, adjust the job values or variant values in the dialog box Send Job: Select Variant.

If individual parameters of the selected variant are changed, a prompt appears after confirming the changes, asking you to save the variant. Here you can still change the variant name, which creates a new variant with this name.

The values in the Job Values group box always depend on the variant chosen above. If you change the values here, you also have to save a new variant for them.