Steps to Debug a Background Job.pdf
- 1. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant) Topic Covered: 1) What is SAP Background Job? 2) How to create SAP Background Job? 3) Tips and steps to debug Background Job 1) What is SAP Background Job? Background jobs: are jobs in the SAP system that run in the background without affecting the normal operations in the system. You can schedule the background job using SM36 and can be monitored using SM37 Background jobs are used to reduce the manual effort and to automate the process. They can run in the background without any user input and can be scheduled to run when the system load is low. 2) How to create SAP Background Job? Scenario: We have a requirement for a particular user who needs a report for all supplier invoices created each week for the particular company (1710) and also he wants to receive this report directly in his email id. The first thing we are going to do is find the name of the program for transaction code: MIR5 MIR5: is a transaction code used for Display List of Invoice Documents in SAP
- 2. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant)
- 3. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant) Now let’s create a variant Variant: allow you to save your selection parameters in the input screen. Go to se38 open the program and create a variant depend of your requirement Save
- 4. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant)
- 5. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant) Copy the program name and go to SM36 Enter the Job name
- 6. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant) Choose Job Class Background jobs can be divided into three categories − Class A (High Priority) − this is used for urgent or critical task and must be scheduled with class A priority job. Class A job reserves one or more background work processes. Class B (Medium Priority) − these jobs are executed after the completion of Class A high priority jobs.
- 7. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant) Class C (Low Priority) − these job runs once class A and class B jobs are completed. Go to step Select Variant that we created before
- 8. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant) Check and Save
- 9. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant) Now we will setup E-MAIL notification Now we will create a condition
- 10. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant) Here we have different options Immediate: If you press immediate, it means that you want to run the job in the background immediately. Date/Time: if you want to start it on a specific day and time But for the test purpose I will run this immediately because I want to show you the result right now Now go to SM37 to monitoring it
- 11. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant) Execute
- 12. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant) As you can see the Status is finished that means our report is ready 3) Tips and steps to debug Background Job Now let's see how we can debug the SAP background job. A particular event may cause us to debug the background work, for example when the output is incorrect or we have no output at all. a) How to debug a completed job? Select the job and in the command line enter the background debug command JDBG and hit enter
- 13. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant)
- 14. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant) When you are in debug mode, the first thing to do is to look at the top of the debug screen to see if it is the same name as the program we are running in the background. In our example you can notice that the name of the program is different Now hit (F7 icon strip) until you reach in the name of the program you run in the background job Now you can see that we find our program SY-BATCH: is the variable to check if your program is running in the background or not. If it carries the value 'X', this means that the program is running in the background.
- 15. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant) b) How to debug a running job? SM50 background debugging If you want to debug a running job, you have to go to SM50 and select the background process. Then choose the menu option Administration / Program / Debugging. Confirm the prompt: You will get this message
- 16. Debugging A Background Job By René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant) Select Yes then the system will open the running job in debugging mode Thank you