SAP Basis

ADM100 Lesson: Fundamentals of Background Processing
program requires input. The values stored in the variant are then
used during the execution of the program. If an ABAP program has
a screen output as its result, this is directed to a spool list. You can
specify an (e-mail) recipient for this spool list during the definition of
the job. This recipient then receives the output of the job by e-mail
after the job has been run. You must also specify a printer for the
creation of a spool list, although there is not necessarily any direct
output to a printer as a result of background processing (this depends
ontheprinter’saccessmethod).Thismayhavetobeexplicitlystarted
later.
• An external command is a call of a predefined script, a command,
or a program outside the SAP system. With external commands,
you can “mask” operating system calls and store them in the SAP
system under a name. The execution of an external command can be
protected using the SAP authorization concept, so that certain external
commands can only be accessed by particular users in the system.
• An external program is any operating system command. The SAP
authorization concept only specifies whether a user can call external
programs or not. A more detailed authorization assignment, for
example at the level of program names, is not provided; use external
commands for this.
Figure 95: Start Criteria for a Background Job
A job can be triggered:
• By scheduling it on a particular date at a particular time (this includes
the start time “immediately”, if there are no free background work
processes available when the job is scheduled).
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