Migrating from previous versions

This version of IBM Workload Scheduler for SAP supports all the SAP versions listed in IBM Workload Scheduler Detailed System Requirements. The IBM Workload Scheduler access method for SAP uses the official SAP RFC interfaces for job scheduling. These are:
  • The BC-XBP 6.10 (V2.0) Interface function modules for SAP versions 6.10 and later.
  • The BC-XBP 7.00 (V3.0) Interface function modules for SAP versions 7.00, Support Package 16, in addition to the BC-XBP 6.10 (V2.0) function modules.

To avoid conflicts with other vendors, the IBM Workload Scheduler ABAP modules now belong to the IBM Workload Scheduler partner namespace J_1O1_xxx and /IBMTWS. After you have completed the imports as described in Importing ABAP/4 function modules into SAP, the RFC J_1O1_xxx function modules and the /IBMTWS function modules are installed on your system.

If you had a previous installation of IBM Workload Scheduler extended agent for SAP on your system, you can delete the following function modules from your SAP system: 
Z_MAE2_BDC_STATUS 
Z_MAE2_DATE_TIME 
Z_MAE2_JOB_COPY 
Z_MAE2_JOB_DELETE 
Z_MAE2_JOB_FIND 
Z_MAE2_JOB_FINDALL 
Z_MAE2_JOB_LOG 
Z_MAE2_JOB_OPEN 
Z_MAE2_JOB_START 
Z_MAE2_JOB_STATUS 
Z_MAE2_JOB_STOP
These are old versions of the ABAP functions, which belong to the customer name space. You can also delete the function group YMA3. It is not necessary to delete the function modules and the function group, but delete them if you want to clean up your system.
To upgrade SAP, perform the following steps:
  1. Uninstall the IBM® Workload Scheduler ABAP module.
  2. Upgrade SAP.
  3. Install the IBM Workload Scheduler ABAP module.