SAP ABAP Tutorial

BACKGROUND PROCESSING Describe the process flow of background jobs Define the scheduling and processing of background jobs Describe the job results for a job log and spool requests Define the authorization objects Describe the automatic generation of jobs Define the function modules for generating jobs Characteristics Execution of ABAP programs without dialog (no specific job-control language for operating system required) Complete integration in the SAP System Parallel background and online operation Ease of use Distributed processing Process Flow Overview Process Flow Processing Jobs – Job Status Scheduled Released Ready Active Finished or Cancel Authorizations and Background Processing Authorization and background Processing Function Modules for Generating Jobs OB_OPEN JOB_SUBMIT OB_CLOSE Job Wizard You can use the Job wizard to schedule a background job. Let us go through the steps to do this. Transaction SM36 is listed below. Click the Job wizard button. The Job Wizard is displaye...

Module Objectives •Explain the WRITE statement •Define text symbols •Use system fields •ABAP Expressions for WRITE Processing Review on How to create an ABAP Program The WRITE Statement Text Symbols Text symbols have the advantage of being translated to different languages depending on the logon language without further coding. After maintenance, save and activate the text symbols. System Fields •System fields are variables filled by the ABAP runtime environment and can be used in an ABAP program to know system statuses. •They should only be accessed on a read-only basis and not modified during runtime. Examples: sy-datum – system date sy-datlo – user local date sy-uname – user name sy-langu – SAP logon language key sy-uzeit – system time sy-timlo – user local time sy-repid – current ABAP program sy-sysid – current SAP system ABAP Expressions for WRITE Processing Using String Templates •String templates enables us to create a new character string out of literal texts and embedded expre...