SAP Background Jobs and Job Monitoring

Use

There are a range of background jobs that must run regularly in a production system, to, for example, delete obsolete jobs or spool objects. You should schedule the following jobs in the job definition transaction SM36, so that they are automatically started at the specified frequency:

Program Name / Job Name	Repetition Frequency	Description
RSBTCDEL / SAP_REORG_JOBS	daily	Deletes old background jobs
RSBDCREO / SAP_REORG_BATCHINPUT	daily	Deletes old batch input folders
RSSNAPDL / SAP_REORG_ABAPDUMPS	daily	Deletes old ABAP dumps
RSBPSTDE / SAP_REORG_JOBSTATISTIC	monthly	Deletes old job statistics
RSBPCOLL / SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_JOBSTATISTIC	daily	Creates job statistics
RSCOLL00 / SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_PERFMONITOR	hourly	Starts data collectors for ABAP statistics records
RSN3_STAT_COLLECTOR/ SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_NONE_R3_STAT	hourly	Starts data collectors for non-ABAP statistics records (Distributed Statistics Records, DSRs)
RSXMILOGREORG / SAP_REORG_XMILOG	weekly	Deletes obsolete entries in the XMI log
RSAL_BATCH_TOOL_DISPATCHING/ SAP_CCMS_MONI_BATCH_DP	hourly	Starts long-running data collectors that report application-specific values to the monitoring architecture
RSPO0041/1041 SAP_REORG_SPOOL	daily	Deletes obsolete spool requests to reduce system load
RSPO1043	daily	Checks the consistency of the spooler and of the TemSe and evaluates the results if necessary
RSBTCPRIDEL/ SAP_REORG_PRIPARAMS	monthly	Reorganizes the print parameters across clients

 

· For more information about these jobs, see SAP Note 16083 at the SAP Service Marketplace.

· For more information about background processing in general, see the Documentation for Background Processing.

 

Job Monitoring

You should regularly check whether the jobs are executed.

 

You can monitor jobs in the following ways:

· You can call the Job Selection transaction (transaction SM37) and check whether the jobs actually ran without errors.

· You can use the job monitoring of the Alert Monitor (transaction RZ20) to monitor the jobs. You can set up job monitoring so that you are automatically notified if an error occurred.

With job monitoring, alerts are displayed if errors occurred. If you assign an “auto-reaction method” to these alerts, you are notified, for example, by SMS or by e-mail if problems occurred during the execution of the jobs.