Defining SAP jobs

You must define some jobs to be able to run jobs on an SAP workstation from IBM Workload Scheduler.

To define and manage jobs on an SAP workstation from IBM Workload Scheduler, you must define the following:
Jobs in SAP that you want to run under IBM Workload Scheduler control
You can define these jobs using standard SAP tools or using the Dynamic Workload Console.
Jobs in IBM Workload Scheduler that correspond to the jobs in SAP
The IBM Workload Scheduler job definitions are used in scheduling and defining dependencies, but the SAP jobs are actually run.
You can define SAP job definitions from the Dynamic Workload Console and then have IBM Workload Scheduler launch the jobs in SAP R/3 using jobs defined on the following workstations that support the r3batch access method:
  • An IBM Workload Scheduler extended agent workstation. A workstation that is hosted by a fault-tolerant agent or master workstation.
  • A dynamic agent workstation.
  • A dynamic pool.
  • A z-centric workstation.
You can manage your SAP environment from both:
  • An IBM Workload Scheduler distributed environment
  • An IBM Z Workload Scheduler environment.
The SAP job definitions can reference the following types of SAP jobs:
  • Standard R/3
  • Business Warehouse Process Chains
  • Business Warehouse InfoPackages

For information about Business Warehouse Process Chains and Business Warehouse InfoPackages, see Using Business Information Warehouse.