House keeping jobs in SAP

House keeping jobs:

SAP defined certain house keeping jobs which are scheduled periodically to delete lob files from database.

Ex: Background job logs, background jobs, which are completed or canceled.

Spool jobs completed or canceled.

Update job completed or canceled.

à Scheduling:

·         Go to SM36

·         Click on standard jobs

·         Click on default scheduling

Some of the default background (house keeping) jobs are:

1) RSBPCOLL: It is used to collect the information for job statistics.

2) RSCOLL00: It is used to collect the information for transaction ST03.

3) RSSNAPDL: It is used to delete old ABAP dumps from the table SNAP, based on age.

4) RSBTCDEL: It is used to delete old background jobs based on username, start date, end date, age, and end status.

5) RSM13002: It is used to delete old update requests.

6) RSPO0041:  It is used to delete old spool requests.

7) RSBDCREO: It is used to delete batch input files based on date, time and age.

Batch input files are the files which are coming from external system to create sales orders, purchase orders, invoices etc…

8) RSAL_BATCH_TOOL_DISPATCHING:

            This is used for collecting the information and passing to CCMS. CCMS is used for monitoring and razing alerts.

Use SM65 to analyze the background processing on the system.

Third party tools:

            SAP certifies third party tools to schedule background jobs. Companies like HP, P&G, Kodak usages various job scheduling tools based on various conditions.

SM36 is not so user friendly to define the background jobs based on multiple conditions.

These multiple conditions are scripted using the tools like

1)      MAESTRO from HP

2)      SAP job schedule from SAP

3)      TIDAL.

Reasons for Background Processing

1. Reducing load on dialog work processes.

2. Scheduling regular activities