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Chapter 4: Scheduled Daily TasksCritical Tasksdatabase update to complete. In synchronous mode, users would have to wait until thedatabase successfully updated before they could continue to work.The users probably received a document number, so they assume that the entry is in thesystem; however, if a failed update occurred, the entry is not in the system. In a customerorder, unless the order is reentered, the customers would not get their order and no trace ofit would be found in the system!The system log is the R/3 System’s log of events, errors, problems, and other systemmessages.The log is important because unexpected or unknown warnings and errors couldindicate a serious problem.This transaction shows jobs that need to be processed or started, and jobs with errors thatneed to be resolved.This transaction is important because it alerts you to batch input jobs that are: NewThese are jobs that are waiting to be processed (for example, a posting from an interfacefile). If not processed, the data will not post to the system. IncorrectThese are jobs that have failed due to an error. The danger is that only a portion of thejob may have posted to the system. This increases the potential for data corruption of adifferent sort, as only part of the data is in the system.System Administration Made Easy4–13