SAP Event Driven Batch Job
When creating SAP batch jobs to run a program, most of the scheduling can be accomplished by setting a periodic time for when the job is executed. For example, execute the job every 10min, 30min, or 1 hour. But what if you needed more control of when a batch job was executed?
Discovering Something Old in SAP – Using an External Program as a Batch Job Step
Occasionally, I have the opportunity to utilize a feature in SAP that I have never used before. It is not necessarily a new feature, and it may have existed in SAP for several releases. There are several reasons for ignoring new functionality, but the primary reason that comes to mind is “I’ve always done it this way, I’ve installed hundreds of these, and I know it works”.
Sometimes, a special business or security requirement does not permit the “business as usual” scenario. It is these situations which nudge me down the path which I have never explored.
