Job Scheduling in SAP

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Job Scheduling SAP
Markus Miklas Product Manager UC4global SBB
Software
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Scheduling in SAP

• SAP Online application
• BUT many background processes
• Reports
• Batch Input Sessions
• System maintenance
• InfoPackages

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Scheduling in SAP

• SAP provides its own facilities
• CCMS
• individual solutions for components

• SAP focuses on business functionality!
• Limited functionality for background processing
• Job interdependencies
• Isolated solutions
• For individual SAP systems only
• No support for non-SAP systems
• No event-driven processing

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CCMS vs. UC4global
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What others say...

• CCMS provides a lot of information . but
  reporting and data aggregation are still hard to
  achieve. CCMS is also still SAP-application-centr
  ic
• ERP vendors will not have the competency nor the
  interest to resolve the enterprise wide,
  production-class job-scheduling problem.Source
  Gartner Group
• Batch Scheduling is moving from time to event
  driven processing.Source IDC

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The Requirements for Job Scheduling

• Scheduling Across Platforms
• Able to consolidate multiple schedules on
  multiple platforms
• Robustness
• Checkpoints, fail-over capability
• Scaleable Management
• Able to manage any number of jobs
• Integrated with Business Process
• Enterprise Business Solutions, statistics

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Job Scheduling alone is not enough

• What happens in the case of...
• ...unplanned events?
• ...critical system status?
• ...interruption of operation?

?

• Competitive business needs flexible and easy to
  handle processes
• Events influence business and IT processes

Event Automation enables the event driven, agile
enterprise, prepared for tomorrows business
challenges.
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UC4global is more than a job scheduler

• Process Management
• Enterprise-wide
• Platform- and application-independent
• Event Automation
• Integrated, secure file transfer
• Application integration
• ...

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Process Management

• Every single task (job) is part of a business
  process
• The process drives the enterprise
• UC4global drives the enterprise

UC4global gives you the approach you need,
whether its business or IT.
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Event Automation with UC4global

• Monitor all systems and applications
• Processing
• File systems
• System consoles
• Log files
• SAP system monitors
• ...
• User-friendly display with UC4 Cockpit
• Automatic reaction
• The entire UC4global job scheduling
  functionality can be used
• Notification
• Message Window
• E-Mail
• Pager, SMS, ...

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File Transfer

• Integrated
• No custom integration necessary
• No extra costs
• Secure
• Complete files guaranteed
• Protected
• Automatic code conversion
• Platform independent
• Covers all supported platforms

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Enterprise Application Integration
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Enterprise Application Integration

• More than 50 of all IT processes are batch
  processes

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Global Enterprises - Global Processes

• Global Changes
• Mergers Acquisitions
• Internationalization, Expansion
• Global Challenges
• World-wide distributed data centers
• Various time zones
• Various languages
• Global Requirements
• Central management of all data centers
• Process synchronization
• Ease-of-use in own time zone and language

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The Solution UC4global
Job Scheduling
Event Automation
Global Functionality
Business Integration

• UC4global enables event driven and secure
  business processes across enterprises, time zones
  and continents

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For all platforms

• Platforms

• Frameworks

• Applications

OS/390, z/OS, MVS Linux (Intel
zSeries) BS2000 HP-UX Solaris AIX True64 Dynix
SCO-Unix MP-RAS SINIX OS/400 MPE VSE VMS (VAX
ALPHA) NSK-Tandem MS-Windows XP, 2000, NT
Business Integration Kit
WebSphere MQ
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UC4globals Architecture
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UC4global - How it works

• One layout for all operating systems and
  applications
• Intuitive - Windows like
• Graphical - where useful
• Log-on - Internal Security, Client

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Operation

• Explorer
• Definition and maintenance of Jobs, File
  Transfers, ...
• Activity Window
• Monitoring of Jobs, File Transfers, ...
• Definition of multiple windows (planned, active
  and/or abended Jobs)

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UC4global Features

• UC4 Job
• Object oriented
• Jobs on different operating systems and
  applications
• Supports all OS Languages UC4-Script
• UC4 File Transfer
• Secure File Transfer (encoding, check sum,...)
• FT for all supported operating systems
• Replaces FTP
• UC4 Jobplan
• Connected activities
• Graphical administration
• Activities Job, File Transfer, Job Plan,

• UC4 Calendar
• Calendar-dependencies
• Periodical Jobs run at the right date time
• UC4 Event
• Event Types
• Console
• File event
• Time event

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Business Integration Kit

• Allows for integration of each application
• Interfaces - for automatic interaction with
  UC4global
• IBM WebSphere MQ, Cmdline, API
• Events Reaction on all events - for all systems
  and applications
• Files (size, existence, content)
• Application output
• Console messages
• UC4 Script

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Solutions for SAP Users

• Job administration and definition
• Dynamic variant modification
• Batch input
• Ad hoc jobs
• IS mass data processing
• Dynamic workload balancing
• System monitoring
• End user integration
• Data Warehouse management
• Job definition and plausibility check

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Job Administration and Definition

• Benefits
• one-time definition
• SAP Look Feel
• input validation
• without SAPGUI
• highest flexibility through script language

ERP Forms
JCL is gener- ated or created manually
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Dynamic Variant Modification

• External determination and passing !
• Benefits
• dynamical script parameters
• automatic modification without SAPGUI
• copying, modifying, deleting variants
• embedded in JobPlan
• no ABAP development necessary
• relief for key users

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Batch Input

• Fully automated process !
• Benefits
• automatic creating
• dynamic determination of BDC-Sessions
• automatic execution
• embedded in JobPlan
• Using standard ABAP
• result verification
• mail to end user

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Ad-hoc Jobs

• Predefined control !
• Benefits
• optimal resource usage
• no collisions
• embedded in JobPlan
• relief for key users
• result verification
• mail to end user

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Mass Data Processing Spawned Jobs (1)

• Definition and control through UC4global
• Benefits
• fully automatically
• optimized batch time usage
• no collisions
• embedded in JobPlan
• relief for key users
• result verification
• Transparent correlation through statistics

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Mass Data Processing Spawned Jobs (2)

• Definition in SAP / Control through UC4global
• Benefits
• Comprehensible mass data processing in UC4global
• Monitoring of sub-jobs
• Structure represented in UC4global

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System Monitoring

• Visualizing,
• integration,
• reaction !
• Benefits
• all metered values
• central integration
• automatic reaction with full UC4 functionality
• across systems

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Dynamic Workload Management

• Switch operating modes !
• Benefits
• central control
• dynamic reaction
• static action in JobPlan

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End User Integration

• API for ABAP !
• Benefits
• not another GUI
• seamless integration
• responsibility for end user
• no external communication
• secured processing

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Data Warehouse Management (1)

• Controlling InfoPackages !
• Benefits
• seamless integration
• optimized time usage
• no collisions
• automation
• verification
• alarming

Selecting InfoPackages and dividing in groups
Kick-Off and monitoring InfoPackages
Any follow-on processing
SAP BW Rel. 3.0A
Info Package
Master Job
SAP R/3
SAP Enterprise Buyer
Basis 6.10
Job 1
Job 2
Job 3
Job n
Basis 4.6C
Basis 4.6D
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Data Warehouse Management (2)

• Controlling process chains !
• Standard SAP API
• All process types
• Process chains
• list
• start
• monitor
• restart
• read process logs
• read job logs
• read log details

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Job definition and plausibility check

• ERP-Forms !
• Benefits
• Robust and powerful end user interface
• Connection to SAP system
• Graphical Objects like Checkbox, Drop down List,
  Radio button group etc.
• Separate Form for each function

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Benefits

• Efficient resource usage
• Personnel
• Hardware
• System resources
• User satisfaction
• Reduced waiting time
• Transparent processes
• Easy administration
• Enterprise-wide process management

Cost savings

Increased productivity Improved service levels
Increased reliability
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The makers of UC4global

• SBB SoftwareTop-three global provider of
  contemporary Job Scheduling and Data Center
  Automation
• Revenue 2002 17m (13m 2001)
• Independent, Secure, Growing able to deliver
  and execute our Vision
• 280 global customers as at February 2003
• Employees 140
• 10 offices - across USA, Europe, Asia-Pacific
• Partners in 30 countries

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Partners

• Strategic Alliances
• SAP
• HP
• Fujitsu-Siemens
• IBM Tivoli
• Microsoft
• Oracle
• PeopleSoft
• Siemens Business Services
• Sales-partners
• ST
• Beta Systems Software AG
• HP Austria
• Fujitsu-Siemens Benelux

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Customer Structure

• gt 280 customers worldwide
• From all vertical markets
• like Finance, Insurance, Telecom, Automotive,
  Retail, Transport, Media and Governments
• gt 60 of our customers use UC4 in SAP environment

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UC4global Reference Sites
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More information on UC4global

• ST Hermes Plus d.o.o.
• Cebini bb, Buzin,10010 Zagrebphone 385 1
  4603 076
• fax [phone]
• zdravka.jakopec_at_hermes-plus.hr
• www.hermes-plus.hr
• And at
• www.UC4.com

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UC4global

• A Scheduler? - not enough !!
• Process management and event automation for all
  business processes
• Integration of all systems and applications
• Across enterprises, time zones and continents